My sister goes to a school called King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls and she’s been having a bit of problem making sure that the search engines around know where they are. If you look for her school with terms like ‘King Edwards Camp Hill’ or ‘Camp Hill School for Girls’ you get lots of information, much of it out of date, about the school. It’s a fantastic school and has great qualities but self-publicity is not high on the list of their priorities. Some official government education bodies, like the National Grid for Learning even link to the out of date site, though others are more helpful on statistics and general information about the school, like the DfEE. See the Department’s page for Camp Hill Girls. This is what the school says about itself:
As a voluntary aided selective grammar school - part of the nationally renowned Birmingham-based Foundation of the Schools of King Edward VI - we offer a genuinely first rate education to girls 11 - 18.
The school consistently achieves top positions in national league tables of examination results and our most recent inspection rated the school as excellent. There are around 850 girls on our school roll from all parts of Birmingham and the West Midlands.
When they say that they achieve top positions they really mean it. The school has developed an art for the understatement. As indicated in the BBC 2005 GCSE League Tables, the measurement of success in exams at the 15/16 year old age group, Camp Hill Girls came second in the country. That’s quite sad because my former school, King Edwards School Birmingham, came 27th. Old rivals, my sister and me but she doesn’t hold it over me, despite her superior brain.
Whatever the measure, when you look at the BBC’s results assessment, or any other really, a 100 percent rating for exams is pretty darn good.
So she’s had a problem getting recognised because everyone is linking to either the boys school next-door, or they’re thinking of the old website. The only way to get yourself online is to be interactive with everyone else online, to constantly add new content and information, to update news on school plays and activities. People only link to you, if you link to them.
thank you patrick!!!
you’re the best…
Hey, that’s what younger siblings are for - to rub your nose in it! Whatever you do, she goes one better - but you don’t really mind, as she is such a great person with it. Look at it from her point of view - she has grown up with this incredible, high achieving brother, and you were such a good role model, she just did what you did; worked hard and did her best.
Haha. Those comments both look really funny out of context. I hadn’t approved them both when they were posted so C couldn’t see Miriam’s comment when she wrote her own.
I don’t know why, it just makes me laugh.
My (older) sister keeps saying how much more intelligent than her I am, and how my grades prove it, but there’s an emotional intelligence about her, and an exquisite and genuine sentitivity that I couldn’t achieve. I’m simply so proud of my sister, even if I get better marks.
I suppose girls are, after all, better than boys. :o/
Go, Miriam! (But I’m sure your bro is better looking. HAHA!)
And I keep forgetting it’s not a good idea to draw noses on typed emoticons!
No way. I’ll never look as good as her. She’s just got a better body for the ‘i’m hot’ kind of look. I couldn’t do what she does. No matter who I’m shopping with, I always find something that I say ‘yeah, that’d look perfect on Miriam’. There aren’t many people you can say that about.
I don’t know how she does it, but she makes it look easy. It’s just not fair!
Depends on what your definition of good looking is Patrick… all of your family are ‘good looking’, so stop angling for even more compliments - you know you are ‘hot’!
I’m with C, there, although I wouldn’t be as flattering. (It spoils people.)
My words would be: “don’t underrate yourself.”
awww! thanks. A high opinion of oneself is always good to have I think, even if it isn’t justified. It keeps one real, real enough to say ‘i’m better than this’ if things aren’t going well.
Thanks Alby!
Anytime!
Yikes! Please keep me away from computer clusters!!
I am 74 now, and attended KEGS when it WAS at Camp Hill near the centre of Birmingham. The boys’ and girls’ schools were in the same complex, but completely saparate; The more athletic of us lads would leap up to the top of the wall separating the two playgrounds and chat up the girls next door until caught and punished. I was there between 1945 and 1949, I think, under the headmastership of Mr.T.F.Rogers. I now live in Sydney, Australia. I’ve been trying for ages to get in touch with some (any!) of my old school chums, with nil success. It seems I’m pushing the wrong buttons on this infernal machine.
Anyway,best wishes from Australia,
ERIC GLANGER
I would think the best idea would be to contact the Birmingham Old Edwardians Association to see if they could advise or put you in touch with anyone. Derek Benson seems to deal with most of the everyday administration from around the school at the moment, and the general address the association reccomends is OEA.Registrar@BTinternet.com
I only say this instead of that organisation at the Girls School because now it’s known as KEHS: King Edwards High School. Their website doesn’t give me any information on their old-girls network so perhaps Mr Benson could help as he’s based on the KES site.
Just to be sure, are you sure you’re thinking of the correct school? Take a look at the user-edited encyclopedia page ‘Wikipedia’ for King Edward’s Schools.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Edward%27s_school
They’re all very helpful people, so I’m sure you’ll find something. All the best of luck!
-patrick