Year: 2018

GCSE Results 2018

23rd August 2018

Our students have worked conscientiously towards achieving their best again this year, with an impressive 87% of grades at 9/8/7, and nearly half at grade 9. As ever when new assessments are introduced, our teachers were cautious in their predictions, consequently, all have been exceeded – 14 students achieved an exceptional average of a grade…

Students celebrate another year of A Level success

16th August 2018

Year 13 students at Chelmsford County High School for Girls are celebrating some excellent A level results, showing that they have responded well to the challenges of the new specifications. The school is particularly pleased by the fact that 34% of students received three or more A* or A grades and 11% achieved four or…

CCHS girls top the Newnham College Essay Prizes 2018

7th June 2018

Two students from Chelmsford County High School for Girls are celebrating their success in the 2018 Newnham College Essay Prizes; which is only open to female students in Year 12. Congratulations to Julie Tang on winning first prize for the Biological Sciences Essay Prize, with her essay; ‘How do cells dispose of their trash?’  Julie…

4,500 girls, including our CCHS Zen Coders team, compete in finals of the CyberFirst Competition

22nd March 2018

The Top Ten teams from around the UK competed in the grand finals on Monday 19th March 2018, in the girls only CyberFirst competition. To reach the final, our Year 8 Zen Coders team completed a number of online tasks: cyber security, logic and coding, networking and cryptography.  On the day, they had to solve…

Young people’s finances – attitudes to money, getting teenagers to love maths and the hidden perils of shared ownership

12th January 2018

Former student, Charlotte Malton talks to the Financial Times about money. https://www.ft.com/content/4ee28085-aa6c-49f2-9312-37c86843bafc