Edgbaston High School
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Edgbaston High School for Girls is a private day school for girls aged 2 to 18 in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England.
History
In 1846, Elizabeth Brady founded a school in Edgbaston for the daughters of Quakers, which ran for 21 years.
This school was founded in 1876 making it the oldest girls' secondary school open to the public in Birmingham. The first headmistress was Alice Cooper. The school used to be a boarding school in a different location.
Cooper strongly encouraged the teaching of science and made sure that like other schools for girls they had science equipment. She encouraged her teachers to not teach by rote and she preferred to have no external examinations until the age of 17. She encouraged sensible clothing and physical exercise. In 1881, the school staged a cricket match against another school, to which a local newspaper reacted with hostility. It produced a cartoon and wrote a passage of its opinions towards the upcoming match.
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