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Girls' Schools Association
AbbreviationGSA
Formation1974
PurposeProfessional association for headteachers of independent girls' schools
HeadquartersSuite 105
108 New Walk
Leicester
England
Region served Mainly United Kingdom
President2020–21: Jane Prescott
AffiliationsISC
Websitegsa.uk.com

The Girls' Schools Association (GSA) is a professional association of the heads of independent girls' schools. It is a constituent member of the Independent Schools Council.

History

The GSA can trace its history back to the Association of Headmistresses which was founded in 1874 by Dorothea Beale and Frances Buss. The aim was to agree which issues need challenging and which could be ignored. Buss served as the founding president.

Enid Essame of Queenswood School was an honorary secretary before she became president in 1960. She was succeeded by Diana Reader Harris in 1964. She was in post until 1966, and organised a response to the Plowden Report.

It was established in 1974 following the amalgamation of two of the AHM's sub-groups: the Association of Heads of Girls' boarding Schools and the Association of Independent and Direct Grant Schools. It moved from London to new headquarters in Leicester in 1984, where it shared offices with the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) before moving to its current office, still in Leicester.

Structure

The chief executive is Donna Stevens.

Member schools

Below is a list of GSA member schools. Some members are the girls' sections of "Diamond Schools".

United Kingdom

England

Scotland

Wales

Northern Ireland

Channel Islands

Overseas members

Former members

See also

References

  1. Peck, Sally (24 March 2020). "Are single-sex schools finished?". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  2. "Buss, Frances Mary (1827–1894), headmistress". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37249. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 18 October 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Butler, Audrey M. B. (2004). "Essame, Enid Mary [Emma] (1906–1999), headmistress". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/73466. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 18 October 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. "Harris, Dame (Muriel) Diana Reader (1912–1996), educationist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63305. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 18 October 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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