For the second year running since the CyberFirst Year 8 Girls competition introduced Semi-Finals, AGGS has secured a place to participate in the national competition run by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/cyberfirst/girls-competition TheContinue reading
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Food and Nutrition this term
Just a quick message from me to say thank you to all my students for all your hard work this term. Well done to all the year 9 students who have completed their work inContinue reading
Charile’s first novel
Charlie in Year 12 has written her own full length novel, ‘Radio Silence‘ in lockdown which has now been published. During Lockdown Charile was busy preparing for the GCSE exams, but when the exams wereContinue reading
Food & Nutrition Remote Learning
Mrs. Clutton would like to say an enormous thank you to all her students for all their hard work in the kitchen over lock down. A big thank you must also go to the parentsContinue reading
UKMT Online Challenge
Congratulations the 180 year 7 and year 8 pupils who completed the Junior UKMT challenge online for the first time ever on the 30th of June which had been postponed from April because of Covid.Continue reading
Eve G helped to organise the Manchester festival of Nature
Eve G from 12-5 helped to organise the Manchester festival of Nature in June 28th: Promoting the event, Eve said: ‘The theme for this year’s festival is pollinators and there’s lots of online talks andContinue reading
Mother Tongue Other Tongue competition
We are delighted and would like to share the fantastic poetic success of our MFL students … During the course of the lock down we have encouraged students from all year groups to take partContinue reading
Wellbeing Newsletter, Issue 1
The wellbeing team have been very busy creating the first issue of the Wellbeing Newsletter. Click below to read it:
Thought for the Week
Empowerment Be yourself – not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be. (Henry David Thoreau)
AGGS and Trolex STEM Activity
This year year 8 STEM students have taken on the Race to the Line Challenge, having been sponsored and supported by local Engineering company Trolex. Trolex engineers came in to school to run theContinue reading
AGGS is Now an Official Guinness World Record Holder
Today Anum and Elysia have received confirmation that AGGS is now the official Guinness world record holder for the largest game of musical bumps! This is fantastic news and a huge thank you to allContinue reading
Nishi will appear on Channel 4 on Christmas Eve
Nishi U in 10-7 (Child genius winner 2019) will be appearing on the Christmas special on Channel 4 over the holidays. She is captaining the Child genius team, who are competing against a team ofContinue reading
Space Week
Space week was held at AGGS to mark the 50th anniversary year of the moon landing in November. There were a number of space related activities including staff quiz, space bunting made by students, spaceContinue reading
A talk about the importance of language learning
On Friday 8 November, we were delighted to welcome Sonja from the University of Manchester who spoke to our Year 9 and 12 pupils about the importance of language learning. Pupils were surprised to learnContinue reading
MFL RAF Talk
On Friday 27 September we were delighted to welcome Flight Sergeant Gemma Slaughter in to school, to talk to our Year 9 and Year 10 pupils. Gemma has spent 15 years in the RAFContinue reading
GCSE Results 2019
Students at Altrincham Grammar School for Girls excel once more in their GCSE examinations In the first year in which all subjects have been graded on the 9-1 scale, students at Altrincham Grammar School forContinue reading
A-Level Results 2019
We, at Altrincham Grammar School for Girls, are delighted to be celebrating alongside our students another excellent set of A level results. Our students’ successes saw 91% of examinations graded at A*-B and 99% gradedContinue reading
Thought for the Week
‘If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.‘ (Robert Fritz)
AGGS is The top school in Greater Manchester according to the MEN
Once a year The MEN crunch the data on every state-funded secondary school in the region. This year’s results put Altrincham Grammar School for Girls on top as the best school in Greater Manchester: SeeContinue reading
UKMT Success
Our AGGS UKMT Team came second out of 30 teams in the UKMT team challenge yesterday at the University of Manchester, a great achievement! The students involved were Nishi U, Thenuki F, Nell W andContinue reading
Spelling Bee Success
Disha in 7-1, Cesci in 7-2 and Sanjhbati in 7-6 attended the Spelling Bee Regional Final on Thursday 28 March. The pupils were great company and all competed to a very high standard. Cesci obtained 4thContinue reading
Pre-Ball Flash Auction
Due to the generosity of Our Schools supporters, we have FOUR fabulous items to auction at The AGGS PTA Spring Ball, on Sat 23 March 2019, at Bowdon Rugby Club :
Nishi U, Year 9 has won the Child Genius competition on Channel 4
The competition tests the competitors’ knowledge and understanding of a range of subjects including maths, geography and the old English language. It began with 20 children between the ages of 8 to 12, with competitorsContinue reading
Student Success in Royal Economics Society Essay Competition
Antonia H (Year 13) has performed outstandingly well in the highly prestigious RES essay writing competition. She was shortlisted by the judges which meant that out of 1300 of the best sixth form economists sheContinue reading
