2019 - 2020
Class of 2020 tribute to NGHS staff
20 May 2020
At a time of (inter)national difficulty, our Year 13 class of 2020 have not disappointed with a lovely video tribute for all of our staff at NGHS. Read more
#KeepDancingChallenge
12 May 2020
Our Head Girl Team and Sixth Form staff team show off their dance moves with the #KeepDancingChallenge. Read more
Don Steward (1950-2020)
9 May 2020
The NGHS School Community is deeply saddened to announce the death of Mr Don Steward who taught Maths at the School until his retirement in 2015. Don chose to end his career at NGHS after having taught thousands of students the joy of Mathematics in schools around the region. Read more
Eggstraordinary History Competition
21 April 2020
Even though the school remains closed to all but key workers, NGHS staff have been busy setting challenges to keep students busy alongside their regular classes. The History team wanted students to decorate eggs as key world figures, artists, celebrities, animals etc. Read more
Honouring the NHS at NGHS!
16 April 2020
As the country comes together at 8pm on Thursdays to honour the relentless work our keyworkers, in particular the NHS front-line staff, are undertaking, NGHS is proud to launch our very own tribute. Read more
Bergen-Belsen 75
16 April 2020
15th April 1945 saw the liberation of one of the largest extermination camps of the Nazi Germany period at Bergen-Belsen. Read more
NGHS teachers sing out to the community
8 April 2020
The current lockdown is doing strange things to people. . . . none more so than a group of staff from NGHS who have taken it upon themselves to try and make you 'happy' with their home-filmed version of the song with the same name. Read more
Oxbridge encouragement
4 February 2020
During Monday lunchtime, year 11 and year 12 had the opportunity to listen to a talk given by Gaia Lambert from St John’s College Cambridge. She informed us about university life and provided a more in-depth look into the top universities like Oxford and Cambridge. Read more
U19s reach regional final
4 February 2020
On Sunday 26 January, nine students from year 10, 11 and 12 headed to Bromsgrove school for the U19 regional netball competition which we qualified for by coming 2nd in the county school’s competition. Read more
Bronze EcoAward
4 February 2020
We have recently achieved our Bronze Eco-Schools award. This involved action in 3 areas and we chose to focus on waste, global citizenship and biodiversity. Since the start of SustaiNGHS we have transformed the school into a considerably more sustainable place and hope to take this further. Read more
Holocaust Memorial Day
28 January 2020
This week we have been remembering the victims of genocide throughout the world with special assemblies and a display at Monday’s Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations in Telford. Read more
Oxbridge Success
17 January 2020
Since last June, we have been supporting our now Year 13s with their UCAS applications and many of our students have the luxury of many varied university offers to consider. Read more
Student Newspaper Launched
6 January 2020
Happy New Year to everyone in the NGHS community. I am delighted to present the first edition of our student-led newspaper 'NGHS News and Views'. Read more
Supporting Newport Foodbank
16 December 2019
Following our Winter Jumper Day last Friday, NGHS was delighted to present our local Newport Foodbank with a cheque for £650 this morning. The money raised will go towards the running costs of the Centre and Cat Finch and her colleague Liz gladly received the cheque from NGHS pupils. Read more
New Minibus arrives
25 November 2019
Mr Scott (Headteacher) and Mrs Machin (Finance & Facilities Manager) receive the keys from Michael Hellier at Minibus Lite. Read more
West Midlands School of 2020
25 November 2019
Newport Girls’ ranked West Midlands State Secondary School of the Year
Newport Girls’ High School is delighted to have been named West Midlands State Secondary School of the Year in The Sunday Times’s Schools Guide for 2020. Read more
NGHS continues to be OUTSTANDING!
4 November 2019
NGHS is delighted to announce that, following a Her Majesty's Inspectorate Section 8 Ofsted Visit in October 2019, the School continues to be recognised as an OUTSTANDING school. Please find below the report, along with some contextual information from Headteacher, Mr M J Scott. Read more
NGHS tops performance tables
22 October 2019
We are delighted that NGHS has secured the top position in both Telford & Wrekin and Shropshire for progress in the summer examination period 2019. The figures, released last Thursday show that, on average, NGHS students achieved three quarters of a grade (0. 74) more than the national expectation. Read more
Year 12s LOVE Liverpool!
4 October 2019
A key part of our transition programme from Year 11 to Year 12 is our weekend social residential to Liverpool. Read more
Supporting Local History
3 October 2019
During the summer, four Year 13s were given the rare opportunity to work with an archaeologist and the Newport History Society, investigating the location of medieval burgage plots on Newport High Street. Read more
