When ex-student Lucy Harvey, Unity Radio host/presenter, asked to return and share her skills in radio, podcasting and social media marketing, we jumped at the chance.
We continue to be actively involved with the ‘The Politics Project’ and believe in the aim to provide every school student in Britain with a chance to speak to a politician during their education journey.
Students and staff at Flixton Girls School Sixth Form are celebrating excellent A Level and BTEC results this year following a return to the first formal examinations since 2019.
Ahead of our year 10 work placement week we wanted to highlight student Jessica McGuiness and how she already has her sights set on a career in the armed forces.
At Flixton Girls School (FGS) we inspire students to discover their talents and fulfil their potential through our founding principles of aspiration, empowerment and excellence.
At Flixton Girls School we inspire students to discover their talents and fulfil their potential through our founding principles of aspiration, empowerment and excellence.
Over 90 year 8 students were given the opportunity to challenge their abilities during a week long adventure to The Outward Bound Trust UK, Ullswater (Lake District) centre.
At Flixton Girls School (FGS) we aim to provide a broad understanding of the world in which our students live and enhance their academic learning, alongside additional health and wellbeing projects.
By celebrating our students’ successes, we can highlight how our Flixton Family value and work ethic exists both inside and outside of our school setting!
Here at FGS we actively encourage students to access our extra-curricular programme of activities - enhancing their learning & building upon skills for use now & in their future.
Flixton Girls School staff and students from across all seven year groups and all subject areas have pulled together to showcase an exceptional array of talent, work ethic and passion in our hugely rewarding Evening of Excellence celebration.
Providing our students with relevant life skills and experiences which enables them to make choices for their future education and career, is at the heart of our school ethos.
Our termly Health and Wellbeing (HWB) Days all carry important messages and this term the theme was “Staying Safe” - both at Christmas but also all year round.
Staff at Flixton Girls School, FGS, have joined forces with ‘The Politics Project’ who aim to provide every school student in Britain with a chance to speak to a politician during their time at school.
Sitting within the heart of our local community Flixton Girls School (FGS) staff have their ear to the ground when it comes to sharing good practice and supporting our community.
Flixton Girls School Sixth Form (FGS6thform), students and staff proudly opened their doors to prospective students and their family members, our Sixth Form curriculum, facilities and proud alumnus family members!
Flixton Girls School (FGS), students and staff proudly welcomed our prospective students and their family members to our first face to face Open Evening event since 2019!
At Flixton Girls School (FGS) we aim to provide our students with empowering and inspiring opportunities in which they can engage and enjoy a wealth of skills
Flixton Girls School (FGS) joined the Youth Sport Trust (YST), schools, teachers, and parents across the UK to harness a national summer of school sports days after a year in which young people had their worlds turned upside down.
At Flixton Girls School we have undertaken various initiatives to understand the impact of the COVID restrictions on health, wellbeing and learning, through surveying our student body.
At Flixton Girls we ensure our students have a full and varied a programme of education which incorporates personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education.
Students at Flixton Girls are encouraged how to show their social, moral and emotional skills both in and outside of the school community and this has been no different during lockdown.
At Flixton Girls we always enjoy hearing from past students and staff with news about their educational journey, what they are planning to do next and their memories of times past at school.
Positivity during this recent lockdown isn’t easy to come by and we appreciate everyone's efforts to stay motivated, keep in touch and share their experiences.
At Flixton Girls (FGS) we empower students to express their variety of talents, across our curriculum and beyond! This ethos culminated in our annual House Arts competition.
Throughout October students and staff at Flixton Girls School have been celebrating black history month by delving into British black history asking themselves to ‘dig deeper, look closer and think bigger’.
Flixton Girls School year 8 students with an interest in creative writing and publishing, were selected to participate in an author workshop with Holly Smale, the award winning author of Geek Girl.
Flixton Girls picked up a prestigious national award for the work it has done to bring people in its community closer together using the power of sport
Following a rigorous process and a very strong field of candidates shortlisted for the post, I am delighted to announce that Dorothy Trussell has been duly appointed as Headteacher with effect from September 1st 2020.
We are so proud of every single cast and crew-member for an amazing three-night run of this years’ Flixton Girls School production of High School Musical Junior – where everyone was most certainly ‘All in This Together!’
Greater Sport recently launched a county-wide volunteer application process for this years Greater Manchester Young Local Organising Committee members (YLOC).
Flixton girls celebrated some impressive GCSE results this year as the number achieving 8 or more of the top 9 to 7 grades more than doubled on last year.
It was another record breaking year for FGS Sixth Form students - 100% of all students secured places at top universities, apprenticeships or employment and look forward to the next part of their journey.
As the Womens Football World Cup semi-final got underway our female sporting stars embraced the football fever in celebration of their own sporting achievements at Flixton Girls School.
Over fifty of our year 10 business and product design students were chosen to participate in a ‘Dragons’ Den’ style activity with visitors from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Spinningfields Manchester visiting the school.
At Flixton Girls School (FGS) we are dedicated to providing our students with a planned programme of impartial careers education, information, advice and guidance (CE/IAG) which inspires students to discover their talents and fulfil their potential and also encourages career exploration.
Flixton Girls School (FGS), part of the Healthy Learning Trust, has successfully completed the Optimus Education and National Children’s Bureau Wellbeing Award.
Fourteen Flixton Girls School students, from across four year groups, have recently commenced a twelve-week pilot programme of core strength and wellbeing style sessions
A group of Flixton Girls School 6th Form students have taken up the volunteering ropes to run a variety of sporting and physical activity break and lunchtime sessions.
FGS Year 9 and 10 German and French students were given the opportunity to support their studies by experiencing an all-German and all-French language performances
Year 7 and 8 students from Flixton Girls School were visited by the British Aerospace Engineering systems team road-show to discuss communications and data in everyday life
Practically Perfect in Every Way! – Flixton Girls students and staff showed dedication and determination ensuring the show must go on, following the closure of the school due to snow.
Year 11 and 6th Form students from Flixton Girls School were invited by Kate Green Labour MP for Stretford and Urmston to visit the Houses of Parliament
Flixton Girls School hosted another successful Primary Science CSI Day with the attendance of almost eighty year five pupils from Urmston Primary School.
Our Friends of Flixton group would like to thanks all members of our community who have supported our fundraising and provide access to their January newsletter.
Over 35 FGS students skied into the New Year, departing school for Salzburg/Sportwelt, Austria on the 2nd January 2018, involving a twelve hour journey through Europe.
Flixton Girls School invited family, friends, students, staff and members of our local community to join us for our annual Christmas Concert, coordinated by our Performing Arts team.
6th Form History students had the privilege of visiting Manchester City Centre, St Peter’s Square on the same day as the unveiling of Pankhurst memorial statue.
Health and wellbeing definately does matter and here at Flixton Girls School we actively promote health and wellbeing over a spectrum of disciplines to all our students and staff.
The Healthy Learning Trust Schools Sports Partnership recently hosted it’s inaugural event of ‘Scholarship through health and well-being’ at Flixton Girls School.
Flixton Girls School invited our local community care home residents and staff to join us for a Christmas Community Lunch laid on by the team from our very own Artisan dining room.
Flixton Girls School annual Harvest collection generated another giant harvest hamper of emergency food meals for Stretford Food Bank and Manchester Booth Centre.
Flixton Girls (FGS) and Wellacre Academy hosted our annual joint primary liaison event, with the aim to support and promote ‘STEM’ - Science, Technology, Engineering and Math’s education.
Students are celebrating another year of 100% pass at A Level at Flixton Girls Sixth Form again beating the national figure of 97.6% and with every student achieving or exceeding their targets.
The Music department have successfully run their second annual ‘Young Musician of the Year’ competition which focused on the musical talents of our students.
Nearly 100 of our year 8 students were given the opportunity to further their Outwood Bound adventures with a trip to The Outwood Bound Trust Aberdovey (Wales) centre.
We have launched our very own ‘Flixton Angels Society’ at FGS following an overwhelming response to our involvement in the “Every Month” campaign during the Harvest Festival collections.
Flixton Girls School year 7 student Mia Mason has swum to success in recent competitions as part of Flixton Swim Team, based at Urmston Leisure Centre.
Health and wellbeing definitley does matter and here at Flixton Girls School we actively promote health and wellbeing activities to all our students and staff.
Flixton Girls School celebrated our students amazing talents with our annual House Arts activities which culminated in a finale competition with the theme ‘Being British’.
Flixton Girls School has worked with Pivotal Education for a number of years now; creating shifts in behaviour improvement throughout the whole school.
At Flixton Girls School we pride ourselves on sharing good practice and in particular sharing with our students and staff the current issues around Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE).
Following on from our winning poster entries for the ‘Exploring Nuclear’ competition our students attended the European Nuclear Young Generation Forum (ENYGF) Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths (STEM) Event at Hotel Football, Old Trafford.
Year 9 students given the opportunity to participate in a creative poster competition organised by the Nuclear Institute Young Generation Network in relation to Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM).
Flixton Girls School hosted a pre-school dance and movement class inspired by popular children's TV show Peppa Pig; organised to support a worldwide children's charity ‘Save the Children’.
Students from year 7 through to year 12 participated in our hugely rewarding celebration of the amazing talents and abilities of our students here at FGS.
Six selected Year 9 students will journey to Loughborough University; next weekend, to take part in our second Girls Active Conference, in conjunction with the Youth Sport Trust.
Over 100 year 10 students and staff visited the Thackray Medical Museum in Leeds, to support their GCSE History classroom work by examining medicine through time and specifically surgery during the First World War.
FGS Year 9/10 German students were given the opportunity to support their studies by experiencing an all-German language performance of ‘Auf Dem Campingplatz’ (On the Campsite).
Forty Gifted and Talented PE students were personally invited to attend The National Football Museum for a special viewing of the new ‘History of Women’s Football’ collection.
Following the success of our previous school decades reunion FGS are again opening their doors for an annual alumni spring reunion on Saturday 1st April 2-4pm.
FGS is turning pink this week for their adaptation of the award-winning Broadway musical and the smash hit motion picture, Legally Blonde, The Musical JR!
year 7 and 8 forms have been involved in an Eco committee, with a particular focus on improving the local environment and raising awareness of global issues.
Soraya Holloway Year 11 had the opportunity of a lifetime, as part of the Greater Manchester Police Children’s Commissioner’s Takeover Challenge to spend a day in the shoes of GMP Deputy Chief Constable Ian Pilling.
Forty five Year 10 students and accompanying staff attended a residential Outward Bound Leadership Skills Course at Loch Eil in Scotland earlier this term.
Over 50 Flixton Girls School students joined participated in a group dance performance on the pitch at Anfield during the Rugby League Four Nations Series Final.