Norwich High School for Girls is an independent day school for girls Norwich, Norfolk, England. It was founded in 1875 and is now one of the twenty-nine schools of the Girls' Day School Trust. The school has one of the best academic records in Norfolk.
It consists of four sections, the Polliwiggle Nursery (Polliwiggle is the Norfolk dialect word for tadpole), Stafford House (the primary section of the school), Eaton Grove (the lower years of the secondary section) and the Sixth Form. A single-sex school, it educates girls from three to eighteen.
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