Sacred Heart High School is a

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with academy status for girls. It is located on Fenham Hall Drive in

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General Information

The school educates around 1,400 girls between the ages of eleven and eighteen on the site which has had a near £10 million makeover. The school consists of the main building, a technology and art building, a P.E. block, a maths and modern foreign languages building, a geography building, the sixth form centre, a small pottery and a dance studio. The uniform is currently (2015) a navy blue blazer and jumper, and a Douglas Tartan kilt or trousers(dark blue, light blue, green and white).

History

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was founded in Fenham Hall in 1903 becoming a Government-recognised

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and day school in 1905, taking ex-pupil-teachers, scholarship and fee-paying pupils. The college initially opened with 60 pupils and was under the sponsorship of the

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nuns. It went through a number of changes until 1926 when it obtained Direct Grant status and became a

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. The grammar school lasted until 1977 when it became the Sacred Heart Comprehensive School, taking girls from 11 – 18 years old. In 1998 it was renamed the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic High School. In 2007 the school signed up to the

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initiative.

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References

External links

Sacred Heart Catholic High School Website

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