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The Camden School for Girls (CSG) is a comprehensive secondary school for girls, with a co-educational sixth form, in the London Borough of Camden in north London. It has about one thousand students of ages eleven to eighteen, and specialist-school status as a Music College. [1] The school has long been associated with the advancement of women ...
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Our Main School. Camden School for Girls is a comprehensive school that provides an excellent education for all its students. We enable our students to find their own voices and develop their own opinions by encouraging a broad understanding of the world, a social conscience and a considerate approach to other people.
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- 150 Years
- 150 Years of Pioneering Education
- 1871 -1877 Rapid Expansion
- 1878 Move to Prince of Wales Road
- The War Years
- The 1960s
- School Uniform
- 2013 6girls No Buoys Swim For Science Labs
- A History of Camden School For Girls
2021 marks 150 years existence of Camden School for Girls and the school carries on its traditions and remembers every Spring its founder Frances Mary Buss who was such a visionary. Doris Burchell CBE, past headteacher at CSG from 1946 - 1968, writes in her book ‘Miss Buss’ Second School’ that Frances Mary Buss spent her life in preparing a pitch o...
Frances Mary Buss was born in 1827 and founded The North London Collegiate School in 1850 aged just 23. All the family assisted with the school including her brother Septimus and her father, R.W. Buss, who illustrated Dickens' novels. She was the first person to coin the term ‘headmistress’ and the first to use it! In July 1870 she handed NLCS to t...
The Camden School grew rapidly from 40 girls to 161 in just 6 months! By February 1873 governors had to take another house in Camden Street and numbers rose to 331. The school’s first waiting list was soon established. Funds for The Camden School were however short and attitudes towards female education were still hostile. The school battled for su...
In 1878, the school moved to a larger building on Prince of Wales Road (now luxury flats) which had previously been the Asylum for Aged Governesses. The school had grown to 420 girls and the architect Mr E. C. Robins FSA had a big task in remodelling the old home into a school. Classrooms were provided as well as a Science Lecture room, an Art Scho...
The First World War saw the creation of the School’s Guild of Good Will with a collecting box put in each form room and weekly voluntary contributions invited. The school also gave up all school and sports prizes and the money saved was added to the fund. Donations were made to the Serbian Relief Fund, the Friends’ War Victims’ Relief Society and t...
In the 1960s, a small factory adjacent to the school became available and plans went ahead for the addition of an additional science wing. On 8 December 1965 Sir John Cockcroft, Master of Churchill College and joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics (1951) for his pioneering work on “splitting the atom”, laid the foundation stone. Some celebrit...
The school uniform altered somewhat over time. In the early 20thcentury girls wore pinafores known as ‘gymslips’.By the middle of the 20thcentury this had evolved into a bottle green uniform with a school tie and blazer.By the mid-1970s the uniform had been abolished.On Sunday 1st September 2013, a team of 6, 4 of whom were from Year 8 at CSG set out from Shakespeare Beach, near Dover, at 5.30am and swam a distance of 21 miles. They swam in in one hour shifts and reached France in just over 13 hours. A magnificent £18,000 was raised which was put towards refurbishing the science labs. Dame Athene Donald, Profes...
A fascinating memoir of Camden School for Girls which was founded in 1871 by Frances Mary Buss. Written by Fiona Millar, writer, journalist and CSG alumna with photographs and archive material spanning the decades across 150 years. A must-read for everyone in the Camden community! We suggest a minimum donation of £10 which includes UK postage and p...
The Camden School for Girls, London. A state school for girls aged from 11 to 18. Local authority: Camden.
Camden School for Girls is steeped in history and has a long standing tradition of providing an exceptional education for all its students. The pioneering work of Frances Mary Buss and the dedication of the subsequent school leaders and staff has culminated in the tremendous institution that the school is today and I am honoured to ‘take up ...
