Press Coverage
How Bradford Girls Grammar School's application to become a free school has been reported in the press.
Bradford Girls Grammar School Could Turn Free
17 November 2001
A top Bradford independent school could join the growing number of free schools in the UK. An application for free school status is to be submitted to the Government by Bradford Girls’ Grammar School...
Independent Grammar School Trying for Move to Free Status
17 November 2011
AN INDEPENDENT grammar school in Bradford is applying to become a free school under the Government’s flagship programme. Bradford Girls’ Grammar School wants to become a free school and stop taking fee-paying pupils from September 2013 in a move that the school said yesterday would allow it to open up its reach...
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Will Freedom Help Fill Desks at Bradford School?
22 November 2011
If all goes to plan, nearly two years from now, Bradford Girls’ Grammar School will open as a free school. While waiting to see headteacher Kathryn Matthews and chairman of governors Neil Shaw, I was given short tour by a dalmatian. It was Children In Need day and the school’s president, 18-year-old Sophia Greenwood, was dressed accordingly...
Bradford Girls' Grammar to End Fee-Paying and seek Free School Status
30 November 2011
The school will retain its Christian foundation in an area with a large Muslim population and continue to occupy its leafy 17-acre grounds close to the city's Royal Infirmary. Its preparatory school Lady Royd will be part of the transformation and will retain its separate name and intake as a primary for both girls and boys until the age of 11.
Bradford Girls' Grammar School applies to join state education system
30 November 2011
Independent girls' school, whose past pupils include Barbara Castle, says it is time to 'return to its community roots'
Bradford Girls' Grammar School set to join state sector
7 December 2011
A fee-paying West Yorkshire school is set to join the state sector by applying to become a free school.
Record A-level results shoot Bradford up schools League Table
26 January 2012
Bradford has shot up the national school league tables for A-level results after record grades were achieved last summer, figures published today show. ........ Bradford Girls’ Grammar School, was the district’s top performing school at GCSE
