Bellerive FCJ Catholic College
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Bellerive FCJ Catholic College is a voluntary aided all girls secondary school and a coeducational sixth form
located on Windermere Terrace in Liverpool
. The post code of the school is L8 3SB
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and Italian
languages. After 52 years the school was moved to Princes Park in 1887.
, the Bellerive Girls' School, commonly known as Bellerive Convent Grammar School, from 1946. The Belvedere Academy, another girls' school, is on the opposite side of Princes Park, and is also a former direct grant grammar school known as the Belvedere School for Girls. Another catholic girls' direct grant grammar school in Liverpool was the Notre Dame Collegiate School, now the Notre Dame Catholic College
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The school had boarding facilities until 1961.
In the 1970s the headteacher was Sister Mary Gabriel.
In 1997 it became known as Bellerive Convent FCJ, later Bellerive Catholic High School FCJ. It gained Science College status in 2003, and Maths and Computing College status in 2007.
Sister Brigid Halligan, the headteacher, received the OBE in the 2008 New Year Honours.
Sixth form
In the education systems of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and of Commonwealth West Indian countries such as Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Jamaica and Malta, the sixth form is the final two years of secondary education, where students, usually sixteen to eighteen years of age,...
located on Windermere Terrace in Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
. The post code of the school is L8 3SB
Admissions
It is a catholic girls' school. It is situated at the junction of the two sections of the A5089, on the Trans Pennine TrailTrans Pennine Trail
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History
The school opened in 1844 as a boarding school on Great George's Square, offering instruction in Geography, use of globes, Botany, History, Writing, Arithmetic, FrenchFrench language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
and Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
languages. After 52 years the school was moved to Princes Park in 1887.
Direct grant grammar school
Like several single-sex catholic secondary schools in Liverpool it was a direct grant grammar schoolDirect grant grammar school
A direct grant grammar school was a selective secondary school in England and Wales between 1945 and 1976 funded partly by the state and partly through private fees....
, the Bellerive Girls' School, commonly known as Bellerive Convent Grammar School, from 1946. The Belvedere Academy, another girls' school, is on the opposite side of Princes Park, and is also a former direct grant grammar school known as the Belvedere School for Girls. Another catholic girls' direct grant grammar school in Liverpool was the Notre Dame Collegiate School, now the Notre Dame Catholic College
Notre Dame Catholic College (Liverpool)
Notre Dame Catholic College is an all-girls' secondary school and sixth form in Liverpool, L4 4EZ, England.-Admissions:The school holds Specialist Arts College status. It is a catholic girls' school. 45% of the girls receive free school meals.-History:...
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The school had boarding facilities until 1961.
In the 1970s the headteacher was Sister Mary Gabriel.
Comprehensive
It became a comprehensive in 1983, becoming the upper school of St Mary's RC High School. The lower school was at the former St Margaret Clitherow school.In 1997 it became known as Bellerive Convent FCJ, later Bellerive Catholic High School FCJ. It gained Science College status in 2003, and Maths and Computing College status in 2007.
Sister Brigid Halligan, the headteacher, received the OBE in the 2008 New Year Honours.
Academic performance
In 2010 it received above average GCSE results, much improved from the year before. At A level, in 2011, the school results were broadly inline with national averages post 16 and are improving.Bellerive Girls' School
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See also
- List of direct grant grammar schools
- Upton Hall School FCJUpton Hall School FCJUpton Hall School FCJ, is a single sex girls' Roman Catholic voluntary aided grammar school located in Merseyside, England. It is one of four Catholic schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, and was founded as a girls' convent school by Nuns of the Society of the Faithful Companions of Jesus...
, a girls' grammar school in Wirral (former Cheshire), and also a former direct grant grammar school