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{{Infobox
| name = Blackheath High School
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| head_label = Headmistress
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| enrolment = 680~
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'''Blackheath High School''' is
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The school was set up in 1880 by the Girls' Public Day School Company. [[Sarah Allen Olney]] was the founding head. During her short leadership the school's role grew by a factor of four. Olney resigned in 1886 to found a "more socially exclusive" school with her sister Rebecca.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|title=Olney, Sarah Allen (1842–1915), headmistress|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-52261|access-date=2020-08-01| date=2004 |language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/52261| isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}</ref>
The Senior Department is located in the former [[Church Army]] Wilson Carlile Training College (opened in 1965) in Vanbrugh Park after moving from the Wemyss Road site in Blackheath in 1993/4. The school building in Blackheath village then became the Junior department. The Vanburgh Park site includes the [[Church Army Chapel, Blackheath|Church Army Chapel]], a locally [[listed building]] (designed by architect [[Ernest Trevor Spashett]]) now used as a music room and dance studio. It was a state-funded [[direct grant grammar school]] (also known simply as direct grant schools) from the late 1940s until 1976.▼
Having established [[The Kingsley School]], [[Florence Gadesden]] was moved by the GPDSC in 1886 from Leamington to Blackheath.<ref name=forb>{{Cite ODNB |last=Sondheimer |first=Janet |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-48569 |title=Gadesden [Gadsden], Florence Marie Armroid (1853–1934), headmistress |date=2004-09-23 |volume=1 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/48569|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}</ref> [[The Times]] would later comment that her appointment was an act of "incalculable wisdom".<ref name=hist100>{{Cite book |last=Kamm |first=Josephine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dYJTAQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Florence+Gadesden%22&pg=PA88 |title=Indicative Past: A Hundred Years of the Girls' Public Day School Trust |date=2013-10-16 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-53167-7 |language=en}}</ref> The school then had 300 girls<ref name=forb/> and Gadesden made a strong positive impression on many of them.<ref name=hist100/> She served as head for over thirty years and she retired in 1919.<ref name=hist100/>
==Location==
▲The Senior Department (Years 7-13) is located in the former [[Church Army]] Wilson Carlile Training College (opened in 1965) in Vanbrugh Park after moving from the Wemyss Road site in Blackheath in 1993/4. The school building in Blackheath village then became the Junior department, for girls aged 3-11. The Vanburgh Park site includes the [[Church Army Chapel, Blackheath|Church Army Chapel]], a locally [[listed building]] (designed by architect [[Ernest Trevor Spashett]]) now used as a music room and dance studio. It was a state-funded [[direct grant grammar school]] (also known simply as direct grant schools) from the late 1940s until 1976.
==School motto==
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* [[Jean Cooke]], artist
* [[Saffron Coomber]], actress
* [[Evelyn Denington, Baroness Denington]] (''née'' Bursill), chairman from 1966 to 1980 of
* Prof Alison Finch, professor of French from 2000 to 2003 at the University of Oxford, and acting master of [[Churchill College, Cambridge]] in 2012
* [[Jessica Fellowes]], author and journalist
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* Prof [[Elizabeth Jeffreys]], Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature from 1996 to 2006 at the University of Oxford
* [[Deborah Lawrenson]], novelist
* [[Helen Lederer]], comedian
* [[Liv Little]], founder of ''gal-dem''
* [[Fiona Maddocks]], wife of [[Tom Phillips (artist)|Tom Phillips]], chief music critic from 1997 to 2002 and since 2008 of ''[[The Observer]]'', and founding editor from 1992 to 1997 of ''[[BBC Music Magazine]]''
* [[Hilary Miller (artist)|Hilary Miller]], artist
* Margaret Popham CBE, principal from 1937 to 1953 of [[The Cheltenham Ladies' College|Cheltenham Ladies' College]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Margaret Evelyn Popham - National Portrait Gallery |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp77721/margaret-evelyn-popham |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=www.npg.org.uk |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Mary Quant]], fashion designer
* Prof [[Anne Stevens]], professor of European studies from 1998 to 2008 at [[Aston University]], and from 1991 to 1998 at the University of Kent
* Dora Turnbull (''née'' Elles), wrote under the pen-name [[Patricia Wentworth]]
* [[Lesley Vickerage]], actress
* [[Charlene White]], journalist
* [[Beth Willis (producer)]]
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==Published histories==
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[[Category:Independent schools in the Royal Borough of Greenwich]]▼
[[Category:Independent girls' schools in London]]▼
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