Blackheath High School is a private day school for girls in Blackheath Village in southeast London, England. It was founded in 1880 as part of the Girls' Day School Trust; the Senior School occupied a purpose-built site in Wemyss Road for over 110 years.
Blackheath High School is a private day school for girls in Blackheath Village in southeast London, England. It was founded in 1880 as part of the Girls' Day School Trust; the Senior School occupied a purpose-built site in Wemyss Road for over 110 years.
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Blackheath High School is a private day school for girls in Blackheath Village in southeast London, England. It was founded in 1880 as part of the Girls' Day School Trust; the Senior School occupied a purpose-built site in Wemyss Road for over 110 years.
History
The school was set up in 1880 by the Girls' Public Day School Company. Sarah Allen Olney was the founding head. During her short leadership the school's roll grew by a factor of four. Olney resigned in 1886 to found a "more socially exclusive" school with her sister Rebecca.
Having established The Kingsley School, Florence Gadesden was moved by the GPDSC in 1886 from Leamington to Blackheath. The Times would later comment that her appointment was an act of "incalculable wisdom". The school then had 300 girls and Gadesden made a strong positive impression on many of them. She served as head for over thirty years and she retired in 1919. It was a state-funded direct grant grammar school from the late 1940s until 1976 when it became independent during the phasing out of direct grant schools.
Location
The Senior Department (Years 7-13) is located in the former Church Army Wilson Carlile Training College (opened in 1965) in Vanbrugh Park after moving from the Wemyss Road site in Blackheath in 1993/4. The school building in Blackheath village then became the Junior department, for girls aged 3–11. The Vanburgh Park site includes the Church Army Chapel, a locally listed building (designed by architect Ernest Trevor Spashett) now used as a music room and dance studio.
Notable former pupils
Sophie Aldred, actress
Isabel Appio, assistant music editor from 1986 to 1991 of Time Out
Zeng Baosun, Chinese feminist, writer, and educator
Prof Wendy Barclay, professor of influenza virology since 2007 at Imperial College London
Prof Elizabeth Jeffreys, Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature from 1996 to 2006 at the University of Oxford
Deborah Lawrenson, novelist
Helen Lederer, comedian
Liv Little, founder of gal-dem
Fiona Maddocks, wife of Tom Phillips, chief music critic from 1997 to 2002 and since 2008 of The Observer, and founding editor from 1992 to 1997 of BBC Music Magazine
Hilary Miller, artist
Margaret Popham CBE, principal from 1937 to 1953 of Cheltenham Ladies' College
Mary Quant, fashion designer
Prof Anne Stevens, professor of European studies from 1998 to 2008 at Aston University, and from 1991 to 1998 at the University of Kent
Dora Turnbull (née Elles), wrote under the pen-name Patricia Wentworth
Lesley Vickerage, actress
Charlene White, journalist
Beth Willis (producer)
Diane Yeo, UK director from 2001 to 2003 of UNHCR, and director from 2003 to 2005 of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign