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We are delighted to be named Independent Secondary School of the Year in the North by The Sunday Times 'Parent Power' guide.
Find out more on our website👇
We're so delighted for Former Headmistress Valerie Dunsford, who is receiving an
#MBE
today at Buckingham Palace for her services to education. She is well loved by so many of our pupils, staff and alumnae and we wish her all the best 🎉
@GDST
Exciting news! Our Head, Mrs Valerie Dunsford, has been rewarded for devotion to the teaching profession by being awarded a Silver Teaching Award in the Lifetime Achievement category of this year’s Pearson Teaching Awards.
#thankateacher
#celebratingteaching
@TeachingAwards
@GDST
We're hosting cardiac screenings in September for our school community with CRY, thanks to Heather Reid and her family. Heather recently ran 624 miles over 12 weeks to fundraise for CRY in memory of her daughter Alex, a former pupil of Sheffield Girls'.
Hot off the press📢
Our Young Economic Summit team have been announced as🌟international winners🌟 at the finals in Hamburg! Head of Business & Economics, Stephen Coote said: 'They were absolutely outstanding throughout.' Congratulations girls👏
Sheffield Girls’ is celebrating 15% of all A Level grades at A* and nearly half of all grades at A*/A. Huge congratulations to all the girls on their amazing set of results!
#GDSTresults
#alevelresults2019
As we prepare for
#AlevelResults
, today's post is for our Year 13s. When their studies got interrupted and their last day at school was much sooner than they'd hoped, instead of panicking, they supported each other and showed the utmost resilience. Girls, we are SO proud.✨
#GDST
We’re over the moon to announce Sheffield Girls’ Infant and Junior School has been named Independent Prep School of the Year by the Independent Schools of the Year Awards 🥳 🥇🎉
Read more about our fantastic achievement here:
We're incredibly excited to share our superb new mural, designed and painted by Y12 students Lydia and Mia as part of their EPQ. They've worked extremely hard to create a piece that celebrates female role models throughout time. Watch out for more info about the unveiling event🖌️
140 years ago today, our founders Maria Grey, Emily Shirreff, Henrietta Stanley and Mary Gurney were determined that girls should be given the chance to be everything they can be. Happy birthday Sheffield High School for Girls!
@GDST
#GirlsFirst
#Family
#Forwardthinking
We are celebrating the highest number of top GCSE grades EVER! Over 50% of results were graded 9/8 and over a fifth of the year group achieved an amazing nine GCSEs at the highest grades of 9/8. We are over the moon for all the girls and their outstanding results.
#GDSTresults
Some fantastic news to brighten your Thursday... Our fab Former Head Girl Lucy Buchanan has been elected Oxford University’s Gymnastics Captain in her freshers year! We are SO proud Lucy!
#GDSTGirls
👏🏻✨
Today we were delighted to welcome olympian, Dancing on Ice winner and Sheffield Girls’ alumna
@oliviaxsmart
who answered questions from Infant & Junior pupils about her ice dancing journey. She spoke about the importance of trying new things and seizing every opportunity! ⛸️
Soaring to new heights! 🎶🏆
We’re thrilled to announce that our Year 10 pupil, Natalie, has claimed the prestigious title of BBC Young Chorister of the Year 2023.
Well done!
Read more about Natalie’s fantastic achievement here:
Welcome back! It's been such a joy to see our pupils arriving at school this morning bursting with positivity! We hope you all have a wonderful first day✨
#GDSTGirls
#BackToSchool
@SHSInfantJunior
Huge congrats to our U19 Gymnastics Team who became National Champions on Sunday.
@SheffieldHigh
have never won this title before although we have won National Trampolining many times. The girls were awesome! 🤸♀️👋🏅🏆
#gymnastics
We're commemorating
#ArmisticeDay
all across the school - the Infant School have created a beautiful poppy cascade on display outside their building
@gdst
#GDSTspirit
How utterly LOVELY was it to hear Year 6 pupil Sophie on
@BBCR1
just now chatting to the
@thebodycoach
himself! Sophie talked about how much she's been loving his daily live PE lessons and how they give her a
#healthy
mindset for the day ahead! What a superstar!
@SHSJUNIORPE
And just like that, the
#school
year is over! Here’s a little thank you to our magnificent pupils, parents, and staff members who have remained positive and resilient throughout these more challenging times. Have an amazing
#summer
and we’ll see you all in September!
#GDSTGirls
Today we are celebrating the outstanding achievements of our A Level students 🎉Our girls have shown immense positivity and resilience throughout their studies and with a 79% of grades at A*-A and a 100% A* - C pass rate, we couldn't be prouder!
#GDSTresults
#alevelresults2022
Congratulations to all of our GCSE students🎉 Head, Nina Gunson, said ‘Our Year 11 students’ outstanding performance at GCSE is testament to their hard work and commitment, as well as the positivity and courage they have shown.'
Read more on our website
We’re absolutely ecstatic with our students’ incredible A-Level successes this year. 95% of grades were awarded at A*- C and 61% of all grades were at A*- A! After celebrating with our students in school this morning, the Sheffield Girls’ community couldn’t be prouder.
#alevels
Happy 141st birthday to Sheffield Girls'! Here's to next year being just as amazing as the last. If you're coming to our birthday celebration this Friday, we're looking forward to seeing you there! 🎂🎈
Sheffield Girls' is celebrating 100% A-level pass rate with over half of all entries graded A*/A, up 5% on last year. An amazing 75% gained A*-B.
#welldoneeveryone
#gdst
#alevelresults2018
We are SO proud of our Year 13 students today who have shown such brilliant
#resilience
during these strange times. They have rallied around each other, spreading
#positivity
and support. They have decided to have a little lunchtime celebration of their hard work tomorrow.
#GDST
HUGE congratulations to our fantastic Year 11 students who have achieved incredible GCSE results!
With 37% of all results awarded at grade 9 and 77% 7-9 - compared to a national average of 22% - we couldn’t be prouder of our pupils’ positivity and dedication to their studies. 🥳
Wishing all of our teachers and pupils the most wonderful start to the new academic year today with their first full day of normal timetable. Enjoy it and stay safe!
#GDSTGirls
#BackToSchool
#MondayMotivation
Congratulations to Year 8 pupil Lucia who finished in first place at The Price Cup at Lindrick yesterday, scoring an impressive 5 under par net! The competition is for adult ladies and she was the only junior in the field - what an incredible achievement!✨
#GDSTGirls
One of the most hotly anticipated events of the
#festive
period at Sheffield Girls' is always the annual gateaux making competition! A huge well done to our Year 10 Cookery group who produced these absolutely OUTSTANDING bakes - they tasted as good as they look!
@BritishBakeOff
Great job from our terrific trampolinists at the Yorkshire Trampolining Competition on Saturday, who won or were runners up in every category! 44 girls will be heading to the North Finals in Belfast in January - they'll definitely be ones to watch
@GDST
#gdstspirit
#trampolining
The
@thesundaytimes
have placed us in the top 5 independent secondary schools in the North, (Parent Power School Guide 2022).
We’re absolutely delighted that the efforts of our pupils and staff have been reflected in this way.
Congratulations to Jasmine who achieved the status of being one of the top performing students in the country in her Economics exam.
With a personal commendation from examining body OCR and three A*s, we couldn’t be prouder!🙌
We are excited to launch ‘Tis The Season To Be Kind! Over the next 3 weeks, staff & pupils will be putting our school values of
#positivity
, courage and kindness into action, all with the aim of spreading a little
#Christmas
cheer in the local community:
Wonderful work from everyone competing at the National
#Trampolining
Finals in Birmingham last Saturday - our U11 Girls Elite Team, U19 Girls Elite Team, and U19 Girls Novice Team were all crowned National Champions, very well done! 🎉
@GDST
@SHS_PE_Dept
#thisgirlcan
#gdstspirit
Our Year 8 computer wizards Emily, Sophie and Evie will be participating in the
@NCSC
#CyberFirst
semi-finals today. The virtual competition involves breaking and cracking codes, encouraging girls to consider a career in cyber. Good luck girls!
#WhereGirlsLearnWithoutLimits
Backflips, somersaults, dancing and trampolining skills were all on show for our spectacular Movement Evening last week. So proud of all the girls involved
#gdstsport
Last night we held our annual Carol Service at St. Marie’s Cathedral, raising money for
@WPCancerCharity
and
@CHICKScharity
. The evening was packed full of readings and performances, with everyone leaving feeling that little bit more festive! 🎄✨
#GirlsDaySchoolChristmas
We are thrilled that over half of our pupils were awarded straight 9-7 (A*/A) grades! Today is all about celebrating their amazing achievements. Congratulations girls!
#GDSTResults
#GCSEResults
For their first days of term, pupils have been enjoying our fantastic 'Reawaken and Reconnect' programme which has included a whole host of activities focusing on pupil wellbeing, connecting with others, and re-establishing routines for their return to school.
#GDST
#BackToSchool
We’re so proud of Head Girl Lucy, who finishes school as Gymnastics Individual National Champion at this weekend’s National Finals! 🏆
Check out this video celebrating Y13 gymnasts Lucy and Scarlett over the years 🤸♀️
…
A little
#Friday
joy for you! We’ve been having a great time filming video content for our Virtual Open Events, not quite all of these clips made the cut, but we’re hoping they might put a smile on your face!
#GDSTGirls
#Bloopers
#Positivity
Ahead of
#ResultsDay
tomorrow, today's post is for our Year 11s. You have been a magnificent year. We're so proud of your hard work, determination, and good humour when things started to unravel. We can't wait for you to start your next chapter, we're certain you will all shine.
We are absolutely delighted to hear that we have been shortlisted in the
@tes
Independent School Awards in not one but TWO categories - Senior School of the Year & Best use of Technology.
#gdst
#gdstspirit
A huge congratulations to our team of Year 11 Spanish students who won the ‘Mind the Language Gap’ competition, a business challenge aimed at pupils who would like to find out about international opportunities in major industries and put their language skills into practice!
#GDST
We had a fantastic time at the Octagon today celebrating all of our students' achievements over the past year🎉Thank you to everyone who joined us and, of course, a huge thank you to our girls for all your wonderful performances!
#TeachingHerEverythingSoSheCanBeAnything
Celebration assembly today to share the exciting news that our Head, Mrs Dunsford, has been awarded a Silver Award in the Lifetime Achievement category of this year’s Pearson Teaching Awards!
#thankateacher
#celebratingteaching
@TeachingAwards
@GDST
🎉🥳
Wishing the best of luck to
@scarlett_gina
in Year 10 who is nominated for an award alongside her
@FYI_SkyTV
team at this weekends BAFTA's Children & Young People Awards 🫰
School’s out for summer!! A fantastic last day as we said our final farewell to the Queen of Sheffield High, Mrs Dunsford. Have a great summer break. See you back at school on Wednesday 5 September
#summerholidays
Ruby was joined by her sister and Sheffield Girls' alumna Lydia, Class of 2018, to collect her results - she achieved a staggering nine GCSEs at grade 9!
#GDSTResults
#gcseresultsday2019
Sixth Form student Sophie, has just returned from representing England in the U18’s 5 Nations Hockey tournament. Balancing international level sport and A Level studies is not easy and we are extremely proud of your hard work and determination Sophie!👏
A stunning start! Something was not quite right this morning as Year 5 were faced with the scene of an earthquake to kick off their extreme earth topic! The girls will be learning about different natural disasters including earthquakes, volcanos, and avalanches.
#gdstspirit
We’re gearing up for our annual dance, gymnastics, and trampolining spectacular this evening at The Octagon! This is always a wonderful event and is a great way to mark the last week of term. Good luck to all of the girls involved tonight, we can’t wait!
#Sneakpeek
#GDSTSpirit
Showing our support for the NHS and Key Workers! Here are the children of key workers in our care showing their appreciation for everything their parents, the NHS and all of the key workers are doing for us!
#GDSTGirls
#ClapForTheNHS
We're delighted to introduce our 2019-20 Head Girl, Emma, who will be backed by the 2019-20 Head Girl Team of Ellie and Alice. They will be working together to lead the school onwards and upwards in the coming year 👏👏
It was nothing short of marvellous to see our Year 11 pupils in person this morning as we got to celebrate their stunning set of
#GCSEResults
. Girls, we are incredibly proud of you, we’re so glad your hard work and dedication paid off!
#GDSTResults
Many congratulations to Year 8 students Melissa and Sophie who have got through to the Foreign Language Spelling Bee Competition National Finals! They have to learn 200 words and spell them out loud in the foreign language. Bonne Chance and Viel Glück!
#GDST
We love seeing relationships flourish across the school - Year 13 artist Alice was inspired to paint “A Sheffield Girl”, a beautiful portrait of her reading buddy Maddie, after the two had a conversation about the value of helping others
@GDST
#sheffieldgirls
#gdstspirit
We are delighted to congratulate our three students who have been offered places at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge this academic year. Well done to Aleena, Frankie and Gabby! 👏🎓
#oxbridge
A very warm welcome back and hello Summer Term! It’s not quite how we imagined but we’re so impressed with how everyone has glided into guided home learning so seamlessly. Here’s the Senior School looking glorious in the sunshine, eagerly awaiting everyone’s return!
#GDSTSpirit
It was great to see so many alumnae and former staff joining a lively evening of discussion on partnerships and outreach with Susan Good last night. “It was interesting to see the longer term positive and life changing impact which things like SHINE have had on our students.“
We're absolutely thrilled to have been named one of the best independent secondary schools in the North of England according to the ‘Parent Power: The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2020! ✨
#GDSTSpirit
We're absolutely delighted to share that our former Assistant Head (Academic), Kathryn Boulton-Pratt, has been selected as one of the
#WISE20
for her work inspiring more women into
#STEM
. This is an incredible accolade, having previously won a WISE Award back in 2013!
@GDST
We are thrilled to introduce the
#WISE20
, a group of incredible individuals and gender balance allies who, alongside
#1ofTheMillion
, are inspiring more women into
#STEM
.
Representing our amazing award winners over the last 20 years, meet them all here.
It’s been so lovely to welcome back more colleagues today. We’ve been busy making final preparations for the new academic year and while it looks a little different to normal, we can’t wait to see our wonderful pupils on Thursday!
#GDSTGirls
#BackToSchool
Here’s a little behind the scenes of our whole school photograph coming together. There were over 800 big smiles, as we managed to avoid a predicted thunder and lightning storm ⚡
We’re so pleased to announce have been awarded the Career Mark Gold Award! This is an external recognition of our high-quality careers education, information, advice, and guidance provided at the school.
@GDST
@CompleteCareer
#GDSTSpirit
Read more here:
The years of hard work from seven fabulous Sixth Form pupils has paid off this January, and Lucy, Hannah, Beth, Lottie, Fu Ge, Maria and Katie are delighted to receive offers from Oxbridge. Congratulations!
@GDST
#gdstspirit
#thisgirlcan
#oxbridge
Our fabulous Mrs Boulton-Pratt was the incredibly deserving winner of the Helen Sharman Award for Science at the
#WomenofSheffield
Awards 2020 yesterday! We are SO proud!
#GDSTSpirit
@SheffieldStar
A huge congratulations to those receiving their Duke of Edinburgh Bronze awards this morning. All girls made a tremendous effort to complete the challenging tasks and should be incredibly proud of themselves.
#GDSTSpirit
#wheregirlslearnwithoutlimits
After a rather soggy day 1 and 2... our brilliant Duke of Edinburgh Gold team are enjoying a slightly brighter day 3! They were even lucky enough to bump into
@musictheoryguy
on his half term hike! Keep on going girls - you’re doing amazing!✨
#DofE
#GDSTGirls
Soaking up those last few rays of sunshine!☀️ Here are Year 9 pupils enjoying their outdoor art lesson, sketching some of the beautiful autumnal trees in our grounds. Fabulous work girls!
#GDSTGirls
#OutdoorLearning
We're thrilled to announce that today marks the launch of our first (online) UK World Educational Robotics regional competition! To find out more, and take a look at our specially created website, click here:
#GDSTGirls
#STEM
@WER_UK
@SHSInfantJunior
We are in awe of Year 7 Tahlia’s terrifically Tudor masterpiece - she brought a Henry VIII cake, complete with the Tudor rose and details of all six wives, to her final History lesson of the year!
@GDST
#GDSTspirit
@sheffhist
@HHLiveOnStage
Happy Birthday! Today, we are celebrating 143 years of Sheffield Girls’! The girls had an off-screen off-timetable day last week to mark the occasion, and today we hosted a virtual celebration for alumnae. We’re proud of 143 years of positivity, courage and kindness 💐
We are incredibly proud of our
@SHSJUNIORPE
department, who have won the highly sought-after Primary School Sports Award for 2017-18, from
@sfs_sports
!
Read more about the award, and the Infant and Junior PE department's amazing work:
We're so proud of Year 13 Lucy‘s 3rd place in the 2018 English Trampolining Championships in the 17-21 Ladies age group. We were delighted to have
@itvcalendar
and
@SheffieldStar
interviewing Lucy today - look out for her making headlines this week!
@GDST
#thisgirlcan
#GDSTspirit
Congratulations to alumna Nayana Dasgupta, who has just received the top Diamond Jubilee Scholarship from the Institution of Engineering and Technology, worth £3,000 per year
@GDST
#GDSTspirit
#GDSTalumnae