The Manchester High School for Girls, 369, 371 and 373 Portland Terrace, Oxford Street.
Visitor: Rev James Fraser
Treasurer: Mr Donner
Auditors: R D Darbishire, Canon Tonge
Hon Secretary: Mrs Roby
Managing Committee
Rev B M Cowie, J G Greenwood, S Dill, Rev F F Cornish, Mrs Anson, E J Broadfield, Mrs Chambers, R D Darbishire, Mrs R D Darbishire, E Donner, Miss Gaskell, O Heywood, Mrs Roby, T D Ryder, C P Scott, Mrs C P Scott, Canon Tonge, Prof Wilkins, Canon Woodhouse
Report of the Committee for the Year 1877
Miss Whitlock, the Head of the Prep, reports that there are 71 pupils in the Prep Dept. Statistics given of the level of attendance in the Prep. There are 251 girls in the High School, the school is full and new accommodation is needed. Some statistics of the level of attendance of the High School girls and general comments on their health. Regret at the resignations of Miss Batham, Miss Cawthorne and Miss Woodhead. General comments on the good progress of the Salford School Board Exhibitioner. Other girls could benefit in the same way.
Statistics of the results of the Cambridge Local Examinations. Thanks to Mr Hecht for examining the pupils who study music and quotations from his report including comments on the good standards achieved by pupils under Miss Bulley.
Edmund Ledger MA, Late Fellow and Lecturer of Corpus Christi College and Professor of Astronomy in Gresham College.
Thomas Woodhouse Levin MA, St Catherine's College.
Report of the Examiners Appointed by the Cambridge Syndicate
Detailed comments on the standards of pupils achieved by pupils in the following subjects: Reading, Writing, Spelling, English History, English Literature, Geography, English Grammar, Arithmetic, Euclid, Algebra, Latin, French, German, Political Economy, Harmony. General comments on the good standards of teaching and learning. "Some two or three classes are composed of dull and backward girls" and it is desirable that places in the High School should be filled by girls who have been in the Prep.
There is need for better accommodation.
Girls should write their full first name on exam papers not names such as "Trissy" and "Trilly."
A large number of girls were examined in botany by another examiner and this is appended separately. [This was not printed with the School Report and no copy has survived in the archive]
The financial state of the school is good.
The Committee bought the library of the late Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women. The library contains 332 books, it is open in the afternoons, staff and pupils in the highest class can borrow books and in the first month 168 books were borrowed.
Details given of contributions to the Building Fund.
Negotiations have begun to transfer the school to an incorporated Manchester Girls? High Schools Trust.
Teaching Staff
[The academic qualifications of some of the staff are given]
Head Mistress: Miss Day
Assistant Mistresses: Miss Woods, Miss Bulley, Miss Turnbull, Miss Macrae, Miss Vyner, Miss Wilkins, Miss H E Day, Miss Lane, Miss Simpson, Miss C Simpson, M Lallemand, Mr Blacker, Miss Samolonson, Miss Macmillan, Miss Millar, Miss Hubner, Miss Martin
The Preparatory School, 274 Oxford Street
Head Mistress: Miss Whitlock
Assistant Mistresses: Miss Sanders, Miss Sellick, Miss Welch
Piano: Miss Macmillan
General Information
Information given about the following:
school hours, the curriculum, homework, examinations, absence, reports to parents, religious instruction, the library, holidays, school dinners, fees, the withdrawal of pupils.
Edward Donner, R D Darbishire and Richard Tonge
The Manchester High School for Girls Statement of Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1877
Details of income and expenditure.
Edward Donner, R D Darbishire and Richard Tonge
Preparatory School Statement of Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1876 [sic]
Details given of income and expenditure.
The Manchester High School for Girls Extension Fund
Details given of the amounts of money given to the Fund. The names appear in descending order of the amounts given:
The Bishop of Manchester, C F Beyer, Messrs J and N Philips and Co, Mr and Mrs Winkworth, Thomas Wrigley, the Misses Naylor, the Misses Behrens, Miss Behrens, Mr Donner, Richard Johnson, Mrs Langworthy, the Misses Heywood, the Misses Ramsbottom, Mrs E Behrens, Russell Scott, C P Scott, Mrs Souchay, Mitchell Henry, Emil Reiss, Dr Schunck, W Kessler, W H Houldsworth, Messrs Liepmann and Co, H M Steinthal, J E Taylor, Mr Dill, W Crum, the late Mrs Mary Stuart Robinson, Mrs Christie, J Style, Miss C Lees, E Micholls, Rev J D Geden, some unnamed pupils of the High School.