Newstead Wood School for Girls is a selective girls' secondary school

Secondary school

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 in Avebury Road, Orpington

Orpington

Orpington is a suburban town and electoral ward in the London Borough of Bromley. It forms the southeastern edge of London's urban sprawl and is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.-History:...

, London

London

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, England

England

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It is an engineering and languages specialist school

Specialist school

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. The school has strong links with nearby St Olave's Grammar School

St Olave's Grammar School

St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School is a super-selective boys' secondary school in Orpington, Greater London, England. The school is consistently one of the top achieving state schools in the UK and it was The Sunday Times State School of the Year in 2008...

. The current head teacher

Head teacher

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 is Elizabeth Allen. The school's motto is Fortitudine Crescamus (Latin for: 'May we grow in strength'). The school has recently begun admitting boys into the sixth form.

It is situated in the Crofton

Crofton, London

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 area of Orpington, not far from the A21 and next to Darrick Wood.