Mrs Ann Aughwane has taken up her post Head of the School from January 2006 coinciding with the start of the Centenary year for the school. Mrs Aughwane was Deputy Headmistress at the school. She joined the staff in September 2002. Mrs Aughwane said, “I am thrilled to be appointed as Head the School has tremendous strengths achieving notable successes in areas such as sport, music, drama and textiles and with excellent examination results placing it consistently at the top of the league tables.”
The school was founded on January 20th 1906 when nine children and their enthusiastic teacher, Miss Goode, met for the first time in an upstairs room in Church Road Chambers, now Lloyds Bank. It is now a thriving and rapidly developing school on an attractive site in Keymer Road of some 640 girls.
It is celebrating one hundred years of excellence in education beginning with a Service of Thanksgiving at Chichester Cathedral on 27 January 2006. Later in the year (6 -18 March 2006) there will be a Joint Arts Festival with Worth School including a production of “Jesus Christ Superstar” and an Art and Photography Exhibition at Burgess Hill School For Girls and a production of "Measure for Measure" 15th, 16th and 17th March at Worth. In June there will be a Centenary Ball organised by the Old Girls’ Association and the academic year will culminate in an exciting and varied Centenary Festival Week.
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