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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  

Former student has graduated in Law …

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…

Stunning GCSE results – August 2017

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!  

Sixth Form (Year 13) public examinations results, 2017

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…

Chelmsford girl’s school voted the best secondary school in Essex

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…

Feedback from Speech Day 2017

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…

ISM Musicians 2017

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.

Year 12 Senior Prefects attend WoF Annual Ambassadors’ Reception

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

Author Saci Lloyd meets Year 7 students

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…