The Folkestone School for Girls (FSG) is an all-girls
grammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented secondary school ...
with
academy status in
Folkestone,
Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...
, England, next to
Sandgate Primary School on Coolinge Lane.
The school, in its current form, on its current site and under its current name, started in 1983. Its history goes much further back, however, to 1905 as the Folkestone County School for Girls. There is a Folkestone School Old Girls' Association with further information and some 800 members, including from various of the current school's predecessors, which, along the way have merged. The previous names were various:
* The Grange (at Shorncliffe Road)
* Folkestone County Technical School for Girls
* Folkestone Technical High School for Girls
* Folkestone County Grammar School for Girls
The boys'
grammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented secondary school ...
is called the
Harvey Grammar School
The Harvey Grammar School is located in Folkestone, Kent, England. It is a grammar school with academy status founded by the family of William Harvey in 1674.
Admissions
A selective school for boys only, the school has around 900 on its roll. ...
.
Admissions & Destinations
The school intended to use the entrance examination introduced by
Dover Grammar School for Boys
Dover Grammar School for Boys (DGSB) is a selective secondary school located in Dover, United Kingdom, whose origins can be traced back to the Education Act (the 'Balfour Act') of 1902. Originally founded as the Dover County School for Boys a ...
, but, after an objection by Kent County Council, it was ruled on 8 July 2005 by the Schools Adjudicator that the school should use the county's selection test and Shepway test. In 2017, around 85% of students either continued onto university or planned to do so after a gap year. The remainder went into directly into employment.
House System
There are six houses named after historically important women:
(Marie) Curie,
(Amy) Johnson,
(Jane) Austen,
(Emmeline) Pankhurst,
(Ada) Lovelace and
(Mary) Seacole. Each house has an assigned colour, green, red, yellow, blue, orange and purple respectively. The houses also have their own prefects, chosen from Year 13.
Notable former pupils
*
Tracey Crouch
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,
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Chatham and Aylesford
*
Daphne Fowler,
Brain of Britain
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History
It began as a slot in ''What Do You Know?'' in 1953. The main part of the show was the "Brain of Britain" quiz itself, originally called "Ask Me An ...
winner 1997, BBC's
Eggheads (TV series)
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team member 2003–Present
*
Anne Farmer, professor of
psychiatry
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*
Alison Hastings, Vice-President of the
British Board of Film Classification
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(BBFC), and Editor of Newcastle's
Evening Chronicle from 1996-2002
BBC Trust
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* Dame Sheila Sherlock, hepatologist
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References
External links
Folkestone School for Girls
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Grammar schools in Kent
Girls' schools in Kent
Educational institutions established in 1905
Folkestone
1905 establishments in England
Academies in Kent