Parent Power Letter

The Sunday Times Parent Power ranks Ipswich High School as the 4th best school in the entire Eastern Region, behind only Perse Girls, The Perse School and Oundle. To access full information and find out more, please download the pdf.

Autumn Bazaar

In its 16th year, the IHS Autumn Bazaar is a festive feast of seasonable gifts.  Join us from 1pm-4pm on Friday 28th November for some seriously good shopping. Download the PDF here.

Ipswich High School Open Days

Thank you to all those who attended the Open Day on Saturday 4th October and the Sixth Form Open Evening on Monday 17th November. Our next whole school Open Morning will be held on Tuesday 25th November, 10.30am – 12 noon. Please contact admissions@ihs.gdst.net for further details.

Nick and Annette Butterworth Book Signing

The Junior School was delighted to welcome children’s authors Nick and Annette Butterworth to a book signing last week. As part of the school’s autumn book fair, the famous writing duo met with children and parents, and enchanted the Nursery, Reception and Infant Classes with stories and drawings from their many children’s books.   

Prize Giving 2008 for the 2005 Polar Challenge

To download and read this years prize giving press release with guest speaker Sam Eve please click here.

Carol Composition Competition

To download a PDF copy of The Travelling Carols by Mary Hodgson please click here.

Key Dates for Admissions

The dates for admissions can be found here.

Ipswich High School Juniors Summer 2008 Ofsted Inspection

Read the full summer ofsted inspection for the juniors here. For more information on Ofsted please visit their website http://www.ofsted.gov.uk.

Children's Author Mark Robson Visits Ipswich High School

Good Schools Guide Award for Excellence

Ipswich High School has won the 2007 Good Schools Guide A level Award for Girls taking Art & Design (Critical Studies) at AS level. The Good Schools Guide makes these awards on the basis of the exam results, and in particular on the basis of the popularity of each subject relative to similar schools, and of the success that pupils achieve relative to the other examinations that they take. Their aim is to highlight excellent teaching in individual subjects.  We are delighted to accept the award on behalf of the pupils and teachers. You can download a copy of the certificate here.

School Welcomes Taiwanese Representative

On 24th September 2008 an official representative from the Taiwan Government toured the school, you can see the press release here.

Green Formula for Ipswich High School Girls

Eco warriors from Ipswich High School are celebrating after their all girl team won a trophy in the ‘Greenpower’ eco-car race, held at Bedford Autodrome.You can see our press release here, their efforts were also published in The Evening Star and The Advertiser, see below:

Sailing win for Ipswich High Girl

Congratulations to Libby Watkins and her crew Abbie Heathcote on their fantastic sailing results over the summer.  Ipswich High School pupil Libby and her friend Abbie came 6th in the Silver fleet at the RS Feva World Championships at Gottskar in Sweden.  They were the first British and second all girl team in the fleet of 52 boats.   Libby will be sailing in the UK inland championships in October and is setting her sights on the Europeans in August 09. 

2008 GCSE Results

Ipswich High School saw ecstatic scenes this morning as pupils, parents and staff celebrated some of their best GCSE results ever, with 78.9% of passes at A* & A Grades.

2008 A Level Results

Pupils, parents and staff are celebrating today after receiving the best ever A Level results in the School's history. 40% of pupils achieved straight A Grades; with an overall pass rate of 100%.

Athletics

Congratulations to our U15 Athletics team, who competed in the District Athletics Competition at Northgate on Wednesday 20th May 2008. The girls are now the South Suffolk Champions!

Sports Relief

Football coach Andy Capell is put through his paces during a penalty shoot-out in aid of Sports Relief

"Team IHS" - Race for Life 2008

Students, staff, parents and friends are invited to join us in raising money for Cancer Research UK in this year's Race for Life - read letter here.

Outstanding performance at GDST Hockey Rally by Ipswich High School U15's

We are delighted with the performance of our U15 hockey team at the GDST Rally, who played extremely well, making it through to the final against Nottingham. View the Results Tables here and the final positions here.

Ipswich High School for Girls receives new minibus

We were delighted to take delivery of our new school minibus this week.  The bus has been kindly donated to the school by the IHSA.  We would like to thank all parents who have helped with the fund raising over the last five years that enabled the IHSA to be able to purchase this fabulous new vehicle.

GDST Schools Top the League Tables

Our pupils are educated within the GDST framework of consistently high achieving Schools - 12 out of a possible 23 of the GDST schools topped The Times league tables for their local authority area.

The figure would have been even higher, had the IGCSE results been included!