A Warm Welcome

North Manchester High School for Girls became a specialist Science College in September 2003 following eighteen months of hard work in preparation for our successful bid.  We believe that the emphasis on Science, and its associated subjects Mathematics and ICT, will provide the catalyst for even greater improvement in academic standards in the future.

Our new Science and Sixth Form Building, the Greenfield Centre, was opened by Baroness Susan Greenfield, the country’s foremost neuroscientist, in the Autumn of 2002.  These excellent science facilities, including 13 state of the art laboratories, have already played an important part both in raising academic performance in Science and in securing success in our bid.

The school will now be able to utilise the £100,000 capital grant it receives from the Government to completely refurbish the Mathematics suite of classrooms and to improve the quality and quantity of ICT provision in the school.  This additional capital funding will ensure that our school environment and facilities will be best suited to achieve improved standards for all our pupils.

Over the next five years, the school will also benefit from significant additional revenue funding associated with Specialist Science College status.  This funding will be invested in additional staffing and improved resources in Science, Mathematics and ICT, enabling the school to utilise more of its core funding for other subjects in the curriculum.  In this way all subjects and pupils will benefit from Science College status.

It is therefore a very exciting time for us at NMHSG.  

We therefore look to the future with great optimism.   As a Science College we undoubtedly have the capacity to raise standards significantly in the future.  As an all girls school we are also especially favoured and we are confident that our girls will go on to be the high achievers of the future, taking their rightful place in an increasingly scientific and technological world.

Marian Catterall
Headteacher