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Nottingham Girls' High School GDST

9 Arboretum Street
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG1 4JB

T: +44 (0)115 941 7663

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ISC ID: 38882


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Head

Mrs Julie Keller (Head)

Girls - age range:

Day: 3 to 19

Size

625 pupils

Nottingham Girls' High School GDST case studies (39)

Reach Out does STEAM 2016

Partners

  • Nottingham Girls' High School GDST
  • Salterford House School
  • Hempshill Hall Primary School, Hempshill Vale Estate, Nottingham
  • Albany Junior School
  • Arnold Mill Primary School
  • Berridge Junior School
  • Brocklewood Primary and Junior School
  • Cantrell Primary School
  • Edna G Olds School
  • Hempshill Hall Primary School
  • Mellers Primary School
  • Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Primary Academy
  • St Edmund Campion Catholic Primary Academy
  • Willow Brook Primary School
  • Academic
  • Art And Design
  • Performing Arts And Music
  • Student Well Being
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High Five Netball Programme 2025

Partners

  • Nottingham Girls' High School GDST
  • Salterford House School
  • Hollygirt School
  • Plumtree School
  • Beeston Fields Primary School
  • Developing School Leaders
  • Student Well Being
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Shrek the Musical for local primary partners

Partners

  • Nottingham Girls' High School GDST
  • Salterford House School
  • St Joseph's School
  • Broomhill Junior School
  • Carnarvon Primary School
  • Fernwood Primary School
  • Huntingdon Academy
  • Mellers Primary School
  • Nottingham Primary Academy
  • Saint Augustine's Catholic Primary Academy
  • Performing Arts And Music
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Reach Out does High 5

Partners

  • Nottingham Girls' High School GDST
  • Archibishop Cranmer CofE Primary School
  • Beeston Fields Primary School and Nursery
  • Carnarvon Primary School
  • Crabtree Farm Primary School
  • Forest Fields Primary School
  • Haydn Primary School
  • Lady Bay Primary School
  • Milford Academy
  • Nottingham Primary Academy
  • Robert Mellors Primary and Nursery School
  • Robert Shaw Primary School
  • Southwark Primary School
  • South Wilford Endowed School
  • St Ann's Well Academy
  • St John the Baptist CofE Primary School
  • Sport DofE Cadets
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Reach Out does Social Enterprise

Partners

  • Nottingham Girls' High School GDST
  • Berridge Primary School
  • Dunkirk Primary School
  • Haydn Primary School
  • Hollygirt School
  • Hucknall National CofE Primary School
  • Jesse Gray Primary School
  • Milford Academy
  • Nottingham Primary Academy
  • St Augustine's Catholic Primary and Nursery School
  • St Teresa's Catholic Primary School
  • Academic
  • School Sponsorship
  • Student Well Being
  • Community Work Fundraising
  • School Maintenance
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Reach Out does Maths Challenge with Business and Enterprise

Partners

  • Nottingham Girls' High School GDST
  • Berridge Primary and Nursery School
  • Bleasby CofE Primary School
  • Claremont Primary School
  • Cotgrave Candleby Lane School
  • Dunkirk Primary School
  • Edna G Olds Academy
  • Lady Bay Primary School
  • Milford Academy
  • Our Lady of Perpetual Succour
  • South Wilford Endowed School
  • Academic
  • Art And Design
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Reach Out does Key Skills Reading, Writing and Speaking

Partners

  • Nottingham Girls' High School GDST
  • Plumtree School
  • Beeston Fields Primary School
  • Bleasby CofE Primary School
  • Dunkirk Primary School
  • Fig Tree Primary School
  • Greythorn Primary School
  • Haydn Primary School
  • Sneinton CofE Primary
  • South Wilford Endowed School
  • St Ann's Well Academy
  • Woodborough Woods Foundation CofE Primary School
  • Academic
  • Student Well Being
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Reach Out does Maths Challenge Day 2019

Partners

  • Nottingham Girls' High School GDST
  • Abbey Primary School
  • Beeston Fields Primary School
  • Berridge Primary and Nursery School
  • Bleasby CofE Primary
  • Claremont Primary School
  • Cotgrave Candleby Lane School
  • Edna G Olds School
  • Greythorn Primary School
  • Robert Shaw Primary School
  • St Peter's CofE Junior School
  • Academic
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Reach Out does Nurture Outdoor Learning

Partners

  • Nottingham Girls' High School GDST
  • Edale Rise Primary School
  • Bleasby CofE Primary
  • Edgewood Primary School
  • Nottingham Academy Primary
  • Scotholme Primary School
  • St Peters CofE Junior School
  • Student Well Being
  • SEND
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Reach Out does Computing with Robotics 2018

Partners

  • Nottingham Girls' High School GDST
  • Hollygirt School
  • Heymann Primary School, Wilford Hill, Nottingham
  • Berridge Primary School
  • Bleasby CofE Primary School
  • Church Vale Primary School and Foundation Unit
  • Cotgrave Candleby Lane School
  • Edale Rise Primary School
  • Haydn Primary School
  • Jesse Gray Primary School
  • Mellers Primary School
  • Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Primary Academy
  • Scotholme Primary School
  • St Edmund Campion Catholic Primary Academy
  • St Peter's CofE Junior School
  • Academic
  • Developing School Leaders
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Reach Out does STEM with Science 2018

Partners

  • Nottingham Girls' High School GDST
  • Bulwell St Mary's Primary and Nursery School, Bulwell, Nottingham
  • Cantrell Primary School
  • Cotgrave Candleby Lane School
  • Hawthorne Primary School
  • Old Basford Primary School
  • Richard Bonington Primary and Nursery School
  • St Ann's Well Academy
  • The Good Shepherd Primary Catholic Academy
  • Willow Brook Primary School
  • Academic
  • Developing School Leaders
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Reach Out does STEM with Computing 2018

Partners

  • Nottingham Girls' High School GDST
  • Cotgrave Candleby Lane School, Cotgrave, Nottingham
  • Dunkirk Primary School
  • Edgewood Primary School
  • Greenfields Community School
  • Greythorn Primary School
  • Gunthorpe CofE Primary School
  • Scotholme Primary School
  • Willow Brook Primary School
  • Academic
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Impact of partnership work done in 2025 (ISC annual Census 2026)

  • 2 state schools involved
  • 21-50 state school pupils involved
  • 40 staff hours given

Impact Statement

We have delivered 10 events and 6 Pop-Up lessons since January to December 2018 – as part of our Partnership and Outreach programme, Reach Out. A total of 802 children from 49 partner schools have engaged in a STEM-focused year, featuring workshops on STEM with Computing, STEM with The Space, and STEM with extra Maths. The new academic year also introduced some more gifted and talented days as well as Key Skills events, enabling our work to work with high and low achievers.
STEM with The Space: We welcomed 42 children from 7 local primary schools to our new Performing Arts Centre, The Space. Children were introduced to the building’s specialist architectural design and state-of-the-art facilities. The event aimed to introduce and inspire architecture and engineering and give opportunity to explore and play with behind the scenes of a theatre. Feedback from our participating schools include: “Many of our students have never been to the theatre before, it’s fantastic for them to come and learn about the theatre from behind the scenes”. Partner school staff commented on how observing their pupils enabled them to feedback positive results to their head of school.

Gifted and Talented Computing and Robotics: 55 children from 14 local primaries worked with specialist Lego MindStorm resources and iPads to build and code a robot. The workshop aimed to introduce sophisticated coding and programming; engineering inspired activities; team work; inspire strategic thinking and problem solving - all with the use of multiple technologies. All schools ‘agreed’ that the event met the outlined aims and that children left with some better understanding of coding and programming. Feedback from participating pupils include: “A sense of pride at completing a complex task”, “Using coding for a purpose” and “Team work and learning to use new resources”. Staff commented that they felt more confident supporting children in this aspect of learning, and that our NGHS student volunteers where excellent ambassadors for women in engineering and robotics.

Key Skills English and Maths: 61 children from 10 local primaries invited for a morning of Maths and English activities and an afternoon at a matinée pantomime performance. The aims for this event were to develop communication and application of number; reduce stress and anxiety around difficult subjects; improve moral; encourage team work; make learning fun, as well as give children who might normally miss out on experiences, the opportunity to see live theatre. 100% of feedback strongly agreed the aims of the event were met teachers claiming to benefit from “understanding how to make learning fun and creative”, and “observing good quality provision” as being a benefit. This event also allows the school to reward NGHS staff and student volunteers for their time and commitment to the outreach and partnership programme.

Science Pop-Ups: We worked with one partner school on a series of 3 Pop-Ups – Living Things, Push and Pull and Sound. Workshops were 1 hour long in duration and repeated with 2 separate Year 5 classes. The aim for these Pop-Ups were to make learning fun by introducing new and exciting resources to the classroom. We brought our NGHS Pet Club, which included giant African snails, stick insects, and cacti. Different textiles were used for Push and Pull when looking at friction at work, as well as musical instruments for Sound. Partner school staff have commented on how children have benefitted from external exercises and activities. It also gives staff the opportunity to see how well children have absorbed information from earlier lessons, and any pupils that need extra support.

There is bursary information on our website.

  • Academic scholarships
  • Drama scholarships
  • Music scholarships
  • Sixth Form scholarships
  • Sibling discounts
  • Bursaries for new entrants
  • Hardship awards for existing pupils