Penwortham Girls' High School
Community school in Lancashire, England
53°44′53″N 2°43′41″W / 53.74801°N 2.72813°W / 53.74801; -2.72813Penwortham Girls' High School is a secondary school located in Penwortham in the English county of Lancashire.[1]
Established in 1954 as Penwortham Girls' Grammar School, today it is a community school administered by Lancashire County Council,[2] and is one of two non-selective, non-fee paying girls’ school in Lancashire.
Penwortham Girls' High School offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils.[3] The school also offers The Duke of Edinburgh's Award programme as an extra-curricular activity.[4]
Notable former pupils
- Miss Polly Rae, singer
- Joanna Riding, actress
Penwortham Girls' Grammar School
- Dame Sue Ion FREng, President from 2004 to 2006 of the British Nuclear Energy Society (became the Nuclear Institute in 2009)
- Ruth Mercer, Headmistress since 2009 of Godolphin and Latymer School
- Dame Karen Pierce CMG, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations from January 2018, now British Ambassador to the United States
- Dame Nancy Rothwell FRS, Vice-Chancellor since 2010 of the University of Manchester, President from 2009 to 2014 of the Royal Society of Biology
- Prof Amanda Vickery, Professor of Early Modern History since 2011 at Queen Mary University of London
References
External links
- Penwortham Girls' High School official website
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