Newport Girls’ High School is a selective grammar school in a small market town on the outskirts of Telford with a sixth form of 200 students. Numbers of pupils eligible for Free School Meals, Pupil Premium and Sixth Form Bursary are low.

The entry requirements for our sixth form are currently six GCSE subject grades at level 9 to 5 with level 7 and above (A* to A) required in order to study science and maths. Many of our Year 11 students continue into our sixth form and are joined by girls from other local 11-16 schools in Telford and Wrekin and other neighbouring local authorities who wish to continue to A Level and potentially to university. We have a rigorous system of internal assessment and reporting for this year’s applicants, linked to target setting based on GCSE point scores. Most students study three subjects at A-level and will usually complete an EPQ as an additional qualification (40% of students achieved A* in this qualification in 2019). Some students will opt to take four A-levels if they average >=7.75 points at GCSE.

The school has a grade prediction policy which dictates that predictions should not exist one grade higher than the end of Year 12 assessment. You can therefore be assured that predicted grades are realistic and set by professionals and not students.

The size of our school does place some limitation on the breadth of subjects offered at A Level, but we are able and keen to run subjects with very small group numbers with a teaching time allocation of 9-10 hours per subject per fortnight. Our curriculum offer is shaped around A levels that are academic in focus, owing to the calibre of the students, and all subjects are taught by subject specialists, enabling them to gain access to all Post-18 options, whether that be Oxford, Cambridge, other Russell Group and leading universities, vocational degrees or Higher Apprenticeships.