Millais School

Millais School
Type Community school
Headteacher Dr Alison Lodwick
Location Depot Road
Horsham
West Sussex
RH13 5HR
England
51°03′50″N 0°18′26″W / 51.06377°N 0.30732°W / 51.06377; -0.30732Coordinates: 51°03′50″N 0°18′26″W / 51.06377°N 0.30732°W / 51.06377; -0.30732
Local authority West Sussex
DfE URN 126066 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Students 1,502
Gender Girls
Ages 11–16
Colours Green, black and white
Website Millais School Website

Millais School is a girls' secondary school for students aged 11–16 situated in Horsham, West Sussex, England. There is no sixth form and the number on roll is over 1500. In July 2011 the school became a National Teaching School, one of only 100 in the country. The school's catchment area serves Horsham and the villages bordering the town. The Headteacher is Dr. Alison Lodwick, and the two Deputy Heads are Mrs S. Springer and Mr. M. Sutton. Elizabeth Barnes is the Chairman of Governors.

Uniform

A new uniform was introduced in 2007 to year 7 and was gradually integrated throughout all years, becoming compulsory for all students in the academic year 2009/10. The old uniform of a bottle green jumper and skirt with a light peach blouse and blue / green striped tie was changed to a white shirt, black jumper and green tartan skirt. An option of bottle green trousers was also created.

Reputation

The school has one of the highest pass rates in Sussex and always produces outstanding exam results. During the Spring Term of 2010, the school was subject to an Ofsted inspection and was judged to be an Outstanding School, although most of the girls there tend not to enjoy the lessons or the day there very much. [1]

Millais has also had an exceptional reputation for having extremely successful hockey teams for years. Their success carried them to Nationals and they continue to play other private schools around the country.

History

The school's history can be traced back to 1928, when the Oxford Road Senior School opened. This was a co-educational school that in 1932 had an average attendance of 208: 116 boys and 92 girls; by 1938, this number had risen to 294: 153 boys and 141 girls. After 1944, the school split into Horsham secondary boys' and girls' schools.

As Horsham Secondary School for Girls in 1951, it received pupils from Broadbridge Heath, Slinfold, South-water, and Colgate. In 1958, it moved to its current location on Depot Road, around the corner from the site of the Boys' school, which had moved to Comptons Lane four years previously. Both schools were renamed The Forest School, and the boys' school still retains this name.

In 1976, the school became a comprehensive, and the following year was renamed The Millais School. In 1980, there were 1,097 girls on roll.[2]

In September 1996, the school was designated a language college and currently teaches six languages: French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese and Chinese. Students are taught French and one other language for their initial three years and must then continue at least one as a full course GCSE in their final two years at the school (though many also continue a second language as either a shortcourse, accelerated or full course GCSE).

Millais has been a training school since 2006; the school operates the Millais Alliance to this end.[3]

On March 20 2014 a fire broke out on the third floor of the main school building, causing thousands of pounds worth of damage;[4] the fire was found to be arson and a single person sentenced.[5]

Connection to the Millais family

The school is named after John Everett Millais, and his monogram, J E M, is incorporated into the school's logo. Although John Millais had no Horsham connection, his son, the wildlife artist, gardener, and travel writer John Guille Millais, lived the final thirty years of his life in a house called "Compton's Brow" less than a mile from the school.

References

  1. ↑ Millais School, Ofsted reports.
  2. ↑ Horsham - Education | British History Online
  3. ↑ The Millais Alliance, Millais School.
  4. ↑ "Fire at Horsham’s Millais School being treated as a crime by police", West Sussex County Times, 21 March 2014.
  5. ↑ "Teenager sentenced for Millais school fire", The District Post, 7 August 2014.
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