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2019 - 2020

NGHS receives Emotional & Mental Health Award

21 August 2020

Mr Scott is pictured with the Award certificate and Head Girl Team students Ella, Minnie and Abbey. Newport Girls’ High School is delighted to have been recognised for its support of pupil and staff emotional wellbeing and mental health with The AcSEED Award. Read more

Another amazing set of GCSE Results!

20 August 2020

Newport Girls’ High School is celebrating another outstanding set of GCSE results with three consecutive years of ever-rising results.   In 2020, 85% of all GCSE results were graded 7-9 at NGHS with 100% Grade 9-6 in English and Mathematics. Read more

A-level Results 2020

13 August 2020

Newport Girls’ High School is delighted to announce another year of outstanding A-level results with over 80% of students achieving Grades A*-B in a raft of academic subjects. Read more

Proposed Extension for NGHS

30 June 2020

Newport Girls' High School is delighted to have been successful in a bid for £2. 3m to fund the building of a new dining hall, kitchen, science laboratory, computer suite and four additional classrooms. Read more

Safety Measures at NGHS

19 June 2020

Return of Year 10 and Year 12 Students

Next week, we look forward to welcoming small groups of Year 10 and Year 12 students back to NGHS. There are however some changes that students will see when they return. Read more

Virtual Sports Day is coming!

17 June 2020

Lockdown Pop Art

1 June 2020

Year 7 have produced some amazing Pop Art sculptures during lockdown. Click HERE to view a collection. Mrs Chandler, Year 7s' art teacher was wowed. . . . as are we all. Well done girls!

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Don Steward (1950-2020)

Don Steward

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

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

Oxbridge encouragement

Oxb

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

U19

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

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

HMD

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

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