Year: 2017

25th August 2017

Dear Mrs Chapman,    I am just writing to let you know that on September 4th I will begin my training contract with magic circle law firm Linklaters LLP.    I left CCHS in 2013 and graduated with a high 2:1 in law from Durham University in June 2016. Linklaters then kindly gave me the…

24th August 2017

Our students are celebrating another set of outstanding GCSE results with 87% A*/A/9/8/7. Once again the girls are challenging gender stereotypes by excelling in Maths (90%), Biology (88.33%), Chemistry 90.83% and Physics (80%). All the hard work and support of the teachers and parents paid off. Congratulations!  

17th August 2017

As ever, we are very proud of the hard work and dedication of our students and teachers which have led to some outstanding results and great successes in achieving places at leading universities to study on highly competitive degree courses. With Government reforms in sciences, Economics, English, History and Psychology and the School’s  temporary replacement…

8th August 2017

Chelmsford County High School for Girls was voted the best state-funded secondary school in Essex and the surrounding area according to the Real Schools Guide 2017, put together by our data unit. Headteacher, Nicole Chapman, said: “Obviously I’m very delighted because the school is a super school. I have been here ten years now and…

25th April 2017

Thank you from a Year 14 student who attended Speech Day on 19th April 2017 This is just a note to say how much I enjoyed last Wednesday’s speech and awards evening at Chelmsford Cathedral – the final event to mark my time at CCHS. It was a splendid evening that will live long in…

20th April 2017

We are delighted to receive the ISM/ISM Trust Silver Certificate in Music 2017 for GCSE Music last year.  Congratulations to our talented students.

18th April 2017

Eight Senior Prefects attended the Women of the Future Annual Ambassadors’ Reception, at Bloomberg in the City, they found the event inspirational, motivational, and developed their network key skills with successful women in a variety of careers. The event was organised by Pinky Lilani, Founder of WoF. March 2017

2nd March 2017

Year 7 students were honoured to welcome author Saci Lloyd on World Book Day, 2nd March 2017. Saci has had a varied career, including working as a cartoonist, working in advertising, co-founding a film company and Head of Media at Newham Sixth Form College. Her first novels, The Carbon Diaries series were published in 2010…

6th February 2017

We congratulate former student, Dr Melissa Uchida (nee George) on being a recipient of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for ‘the fundamental discovery and exploration of neutrino oscillations, revealing a new frontier beyond, and possibly far beyond, the standard model of particle physics’.

20th January 2017

Every Essex secondary school ranked based on GCSE result Chelmsford County High School for Girls was the best-performing school in Essex in 2016, as well as one of the best performers in England, based on its Attainment 8 performance, with an average score per pupil of 76.5. This is roughly equivalent to between an A…