Queen Anne Grammar School for Girls was a single-gender female state

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 ...

in the city of

York York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...

, England. It began in 1906 as the Municipal Secondary School for Girls and was based in Brook Street. At the end of 1909 the pupils were transferred to a new -acre site in Clifton. The school's name was changed in 1920 and Queen Anne was chosen as it was situated on Queen Anne's Road. The school emblem was a sphinx underneath which was a furled ribbon reading the school motto ''Quod Potui Perfeci''. The school became a co-educational comprehensive in 1985. It closed in June 2000 and in 2001 St Olave's School moved to the site.

Notable former pupils

* Kate Atkinson, author * Barbara Hulme, botanist. *

Janet McTeer Janet McTeer (born 5 August 1961"Ms Janet McTeer, OBE"
. ''Derbrett's P ...

, OBE, actress *

Frances Morrell Frances Morrell (''née'' Frances Maine Galleway; 28 December 1937 – 10 January 2010) was a British Labour politician who led the Inner London Education Authority from 1983 until 1987. Life Frances Morrell was brought up in York, and educ ...

, Labour politician, Leader from 1983 to 1987 of the

Inner London Education Authority The Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) was an ad hoc local education authority for the City of London and the 12 Inner London boroughs from 1965 until its abolition in 1990. The authority was reconstituted as a directly elected body corp ...

(ILEA) * Lynn Picknett, writer, researcher and lecturer

References

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