http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.ukhttp://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/students_to_sit_the_11_plus_in_september <p> The date of the Essex 11-plus exam has been brought forward this year so parents can find out if their child has passed before they apply for a secondary school place. </p> <p> The change, which is recommended by the Government, will bring Essex in line with other counties and end the current three-and-a-half month wait for families to hear if their child has been awarded a place at a selective school. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/reporting_of_absence_at_cchs <p> During adverse weather please use the absence e-mail address <a href="mailto:absence@cchs.essex.sch.uk" target="_self">absence@cchs.essex.sch.uk</a> to notify us of your daughter’s absence. This is our preferred method of contact. Thank you for your co-operation and support in this matter. </p> <p> Mrs M. French<br />Assistant Headteacher </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/year_8_parents_evening <p> It is planned that the Year 8 Parents Evening will also go ahead with as many staff as are able to attend. A Parentmail will confirm details in the course of Monday morning. </p> <p> Mrs Nicole Chapman<br />Headteacher </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/brentwood_weekly_news <p> The following article was reported in the <b>Brentwood Weekly News</b> this week. </p> <p> Chelmsford County High School for Girls were ranked thirteenth in the recent league tables for GCSE. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/enthusiasm_for_choirs_reaches_a_crescendo_for_musical_parents <p> By day they are vets, doctors, housewives, IT consultants and teachers. But every Monday evening they come together to sing their hearts out. </p> <p> Grammaticus are one of a growing number of choirs for parents being started up within Essex schools. Their aim may be to fund-raise or provide a social opportunity, but first and foremost they are about giving adults a chance to develop or discover their singing talents </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/csse_press_release_1st_february_2012<a name="eztoc5355_0_1" id="eztoc5355_0_1"></a><h3><b>CONSORTIUM FOR SELECTIVE SCHOOLS IN ESSEX</b></h3> <p> For many years the local grammar schools have been among the most over-subscribed and successful schools in the Eastern region. Parents know the value of being offered a place for their child at these outstanding schools. Changes to the 11+, required by the Government, will help inform parental choice. New arrangements are now taking effect across the whole of Essex for entry to our selective schools in September 2013. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/oxbridge_offers_cambridge_9_offers_and_oxford_7_offers <p> This represents a 38% success rate for our A level and 40% for our IB applicants. Our success rate from those interviewed is 55% overall. We are very proud of the students involved and recognise the contribution of the teaching staff and all those who helped support the students with their applications.<b> </b> </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/why_won_t_any_political_party_dare_champion_grammar_schools <p> This was surely one of the most original excuses ever heard for non-attendance at a gathering. </p> <p> Ten years ago, I went to a reunion of staff and former pupils from my old grammar school, Harrow County for Boys, which was based in north-west London. The happy centrepiece of the evening was a tribute to a much-loved master, Harry Rees, who was finally retiring after years of devoted service, not only in teaching history but also in staging school drama productions. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/top_schools_to_take_more_children_from_chelmsford <p> Chelmsford's two selective schools will stop taking so many children from outside the county because they are "too tired" for lessons. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/uk_students_lack_global_outlook_says_british_council <p> Business leaders are warning that students in the UK are lagging behind in developing an international outlook needed for a globalised economy. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/david_bebb_receives_mbe_award <p> David Bebb, received the prestigious MBE award for voluntary services to education last month. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/debate_team_is_on_track_again <p> Just a month after jetting to New York to take part in the final of an international legal debating contest, a team of girls are off to a flying start in next year's competition. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/gold_for_duo_at_national_competition <p> An ice skating duo from Chelmsford have struck gold at the National British Championships in Sheffield. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/cathedral_choir_honour_for_alice <p> A singing student is hitting all the right notes. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/chelmsford_schoolgirl_represents_england_in_karate_championships <p> A Chelmsford schoolgirl has represented England for the first time at an international karate championships. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/gcse_2011 <p> Students from Chelmsford County High School For Girls (left to right) Natalie Bird, Marianne Astbury and Claudia Barrall shelter from the rain as they receive their GCSE results. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/gcse_results_day_2011 <p> GCSE results 2011: Students from Chelmsford County High School For Girls get their results in the rain. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/a_level_results_smiles_tears_and_a_bit_of_jumping <p> The students from Chelmsford County High School for Girls who have gained places at Oxbridge chose not to jump en-masse for the photographer </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/strong_ni_a_level_performance <p> The proportion of top grades awarded to A-level students in Northern Ireland has fallen marginally but students still outperformed their counterparts in Wales and England. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/top_girls_school_becomes_an_academy <p> Chelmsford County High School for Girls will be an academy from next year. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/snow_hits_county_town_hard2 <p> Snow swept across Essex this week and Chelmsford was right in the centre of it. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/girls_ireland_bound_for_contest_final2 <p> A team of students from Chelmsford County High School for Girls is getting ready to face the bar. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/girls_are_top_class_again <p> The rainy weather didn't dampen spirits as pupils from Chelmsford County High School for Girls collected their results on Thursday. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/hot_debate_as_young_lawyers_vie_for_glory <p> Perched on opposite ends of long oak tables, budding young lawyers went head-to-head in the battle to be dubbed the best mooters in Chelmsford. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/storybook_stars_eclipse_current_mark <p> School girls dressed as fictional characters for a wacky world record attempt. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/marianne_faithful_to_ib_dream <p> One hard-working Chelmsford County High School girl will be swapping sitting the usual A-levels in favour of the International Baccalaureate (IB). </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/young_inventor_turn_ingenious_future <p> Young inventors in Essex have had their innovative designs praised by industry experts. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/double_champions <p> Chelmsford County High School for Girls is enjoying a double county hockey championship success after both their U16s and U18s won their individual team championships. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/top_girls_school_s_drive_for_language_unit_funds <p> A Chelmsford school has launched a major fundraising drive to find £2.5m needed to build a Languages Centre. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/teenager_hiba_khan_s_art_is_hung_in_the_saatchi_gallery <p> This peace-inspiring painting depicting an unlikely friendship between British National Party leader Nick Griffin and a Muslim man has won a prestigious national art award for a talented teenage artist. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/schoolgirl_receives_england_fencing_call <p> A Barintree schoolgirl will represent her country for the first time after excelling in the recent England Youth Fencing Championships. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/ashford_to_compete_in_nationals <p> Chelmsford County High School student Abigail Ashford finished in second place for the Essex Schools' Pentathlon team at the Regional Combined Events Championship. </p> <p> </p> <p> The Year nine pupil will now go on to compete at the National Finals which will be held in Stoke in September 2010. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/dispel_myths_about_cancer <p> Myths that you can catch cancer by kissing or eating coloured jelly babies are among those that Susie Rice quickly dispels when she chats to teenagers. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/leading_grammar_says_baccalaureate_is_the_future <p> One of the country's leading state grammar schools is to encourage pupils to switch from A-levels to the International Baccalaureate (IB) exam this September. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/keep_up_the_hard_work_pupils_told <p> Pupils in Essex were bracing themselves for their day of reckoning this morning as they prepared to open their GCSE results. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/identical_twin_sisters_receive_11_a_gsce_results_each <p> Identical twins at Chelmsford County High School have received identical results in their GCSE exams. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/gcses_in_the_dock_as_record_number_pass_them_a_year_early <p> A fresh row over GCSE standards erupted yesterday as record numbers of pupils took exams at least a year early. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/best_ever_gcse <p> Chelmsford County High Girls School achieved its best ever GCSE blitz. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/hard_work_and_revision <p> Tenacious twin sisters Priya and Tharsi Singham put their amazing A-level results down to hard work, lots of revision and fighting the temptation to skip lessons. </p> <p> Priya scooped A*s in maths and biology and an A in chemistry, while her sister got an A* in biology and As in maths and geography. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/gcses_on_the_up_once_again <p> Chelmsford schools are reporting record GCSE successes in line with the national picture. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/have_a_levels_had_their_day <p> News that the headmistress of one of the country's leading state grammar schools is encouraging pupils to switch from A-levels to the International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB) prompts consideration of whether A-levels continue to serve students, universities and prospective employers as well as they did in the past. Nicole Chapman, headmistress of Chelmsford County High School for Girls in Essex, says the IB offers a broader curriculum and is a better preparation for university. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/pupils_do_the_teaching <p> As a Specialist Languages College, Chelmsford County High School for Girls gets cash each year to support about 20 mid-Essex primary and junior schools with the teaching of languages, which is now compulsory for pupils aged from seven to 11. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/reaching_out_helps_mould_the_leaders_of_tomorrow <p> Primary school children, pensioners, musically-minded and gifted and talented pupils from other secondary schools, are among the people who benefit from the outreach work of Chelmsford County High School for Girls. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/no_language_gcse_means_no_sixth_form_place_say_top_schools <p> Two of the top-performing state schools in the country have declared their sixth-forms a "no go" area for pupils without a top grade GCSE pass in a modern foreign language. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/students_without_language_grade_denied_sixth_form <p> Students without a top grade GCSE in a modern language will be barred from the sixth form of Chelmsford's two grammar schools. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/celebrating_our_jack_petchey_winners <p> Young students from Chelmsford have been celebrating after receiving Jack Petchey achievement awards. The event brought together winners from 14 schools in Chelmsford and Maldon at a presentation evening at the Civic Theatre. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/grammars_consider_academy_status <p> Chelmsford's two grammar schools are considering becoming academies. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/top_schools_unite_over_languages <p> Two of Chelmsford’s leading schools have joined forces to preserve the importance of learning a language. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/dame_returns_to_old_school <p> A former pupil of Chelmsford County High School, who rose to a top position in the United Nations, is returning to the school. </p> http://cchstemp.inco-cms.co.uk/home/latest_news/our_schools_flying_high_again <p> chools in Chelmsford are proving the only way is Essex – at least for education. </p>