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Uniform

The uniform changes with the seasons, apart from the school blazer, which is bottle green with the school's arms embroidered on the breast pocket.

The Winter uniform is a tartan kilt, mostly navy blue but with red and green, plus a navy blue v-necked jumper with two green stripes along the collar, and a white shirt. In the Fifth Form (two years before Sixth Form) students are allowed to wear a straight skirt of the same fabric as the kilt.

The Summer uniform is a summer dress with a green block pattern. In the Sixth Form, girls may wear their own clothes, so long as they are smart and not casual. They are expected to dress like young professionals.

Year Naming

As many other independent schools, Norwich High School does not use the 'Year 1, Year 2...' method of naming forms within the school. This is as follows:

Stafford House

Polliwiggle Nursery (ages 3 and 4)

Infant Department

Reception (ages 4 and 5)

Kindergarten (ages 5 and 6)

Lower I (ages 6 and 7)

Junior Department

Upper I (ages 7 to 8)

Lower II(ages 8 to 9)

Upper II(ages 9 to 10)

Lower III(ages 10 to 11)

Eaton Grove

(The Lower School)

Upper III(ages 11 to 12)

Lower IV(ages 12 to 13)

Upper IV(ages 13 to 14)

The Upper School

Lower V (ages 14 to 15)

Upper V (ages 15 to 16)

Lower VI - Sixth Form (ages 16 to 17)

Upper VI - Sixth Form (ages 17 to 18)

Facilities

The school's wide range of facilities include playing fields, tennis courts, a 25m indoor heated swimming pool, a gym, a sports hall, a state-of-the-art performing arts studio and a variety of learning tools including Language Labs, five computing suites and several Science Laboratories.

Notable old girls

Diana Burrell, composer

Edith Cavell - martyr and nurse

Olivia Coleman (born 1974) - actress

Dorothy Jewson (1884-1964) - Labour politician

Joyce Lambert (1916-2005) - botanist

Jane Manning (born 1938) - opera singer

Becky Mantin (born 1980) - television presenter

Professor Shirley Pearce - Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University

Emma Pooley (born 1982) - cyclist who won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Hannah Waterman (born 1975) - actress

Headmistresses

Miss Ada Benson (1875)

Miss Wills (from 1875)

Miss A.

Miss Lizzie Gadesden (1884 to 1907, previously head of Newton Abbot High School, died 1918)

Miss Gertrude Mary Wise JP (1907 to 1928, previously head of Shrewsbury High School, died January 1935)

Miss Elsie Pringle Jameson (1928 to 1946, born 1880, died 1958)

Miss Prunella Riviere Bodington (1946 to 1953, later head of South Hampstead High School, born 1907, died 1984)

Miss Rhoda H. M. Standeven (January 1976 to September 1985)

Mrs Valerie Bidwell (from September 1985)

Bibliography

Bodington, Miss P. R., Norwich High school 1875-1950 (Norwich High School, 1950)

Brodie, Alan, Memories, Milestones and Miscellanies: 125 years of Norwich High School for Girls (Norwich High School for Girls, 2003)

References

^ Guardian Unlimited 2006 GCSE and A-level results http://education.guardian.co.uk/secondaries/tables/0,,1985499,00.html

^ The Times, April 21, 1875, Issue 28295, p. 4, col. E

^ File 'The Forgotten Benson', Ref. No. GDS/15/3/4, unpublished memoir by Sylvia Benians of Ada Benson (married name McDowall), head of Norwich High School, 1875, and of Oxford High School 1875-1879, in Records of the Girls' Day School Trust and predecessors

^ The Times, September 10, 1877, Issue 29043, p. 13, col. C

^ Press cutting of an obituary for Lizzie Gadesden (d. 1918), Ref. No. GDS/15/3/13 at archive.ioe.ac.uk

^ The Times, January 27, 1933, Issue 46353; page 1, col A

^ File 'Miss G. M. Wise' at archive.ioe.ac.uk

^ Papers regarding Elsie Jameson at archive.ioe.ac.uk

^ The Times, May 18, 1984, Issue 61834, p. 12, col. A

^ Papers regarding Prunella Riviere Bodington (1907-1984) at archive.ioe.ac.uk

^ The Times, March 22, 1975, Issue 59351, p. 16, col. C

^ a b The Times, April 17, 1985, Issue 62114, p. 16, col. C

External links

Norwich High School for Girls website

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Coordinates: 523707 11634 / 52.6186N 1.2761E / 52.6186; 1.2761

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