It’s official – Shrewsbury High School GDST is excellent in all areas! Following our inspection in November, the ISI has recognised Shrewsbury High School GDST as “excellent in all areas”, the highest rating obtainable.   The ISI report key findings are that the quality of pupils’ academic and other achievements, and the quality of pupils’ personal….

As well as being a part of a family of exceptional schools, Shrewsbury High School is also part of a movement in girls’ education and so it was incredibly exciting this year to see that movement go global with Shrewsbury High and her 24 Sister schools becoming founding members of the International Coalition of Girls….

Making sense of the headlines on girls’ mental health Perhaps, like me you were alarmed last week to see many papers and educational supplements led a piece following a report from STEER Education highlighting grave concerns for girls’ and young women’s mental wellbeing following the pandemic. It was concerning to see headlines referring to girls’….

In Ms Sharrock’s last assembly of the summer term, she takes us back to 1996. 25 years ago. Here are three things I think you might know from 1996: 1.        Wannabe by the Spice Girls 2.       Take That – 1996 was the year of their first break up 3.       Euro 96 – the last time….

Ms Sharrock does her best to convince SHS students that exams can be enjoyable. Just before we broke up for the half term I was talking to one of the new Head Girl Committee and I suggested that I should do my assembly today on the joy of the exams and assessments given that most….

On International Women’s Day 2021, Headteacher Jo Sharrock writes in Independent Education Today how the regressive effect of the pandemic on gender equality has thrown the importance of girls’ education into sharp relief. Girls-only education matters. For shocking evidence, look no further than the Government’s ‘Stay Home Stay Safe’ advert earlier this year. Women were depicted home….

  ‘Sometimes since I’ve been in the garden I’ve looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything….

In one of the many remarkable moments of lockdown I found myself at home, in my kitchen teaching a history seminar to a group of year 13s from six different GDST schools via Zoom.   I had never met them before, nor they each other – what we had in common was that we were part….

As a Languages Teacher, and as anyone who knows me will testify, I like communication.  I love the daily interaction of students in the classroom and around the school. Therefore, the prospect of not being in school could have been very sad and isolating. However, as a teacher at Shrewsbury High School, this has absolutely….

Thought is power. You can Google information, but you cannot Google thought, or a new idea. Knowledge is a very fluid concept, but essentially boils down to facts, information and skills which are learned through experience or teaching. Students across the world go to school in the pursuit of knowledge – a wide and pervasive….