Bournemouth School for Girls is a grammar academy school located in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. It is a girls grammar school and sixth form college, teaching girls aged 11 to 18. History Seventeen years after the boys school was founded this school opened with 160 pupils on 30 January 1918. The school moved to new buildings in Castle Gate Close in 1961. Academics Since September 2005, BSG has been a humanities specialist school. The school has approximately 1,100 students, including 300 in the sixth form. Until 2012, sixth form classes (including Theatre Studies, PE and Psychology) were open to Students at the boys-only Bournemouth School, with whom BSG share a sports and playing field. The school is represented by a Senior Team led by the Head Girl and Deputy Head Girl and made up of six House and six Deputy House captains. Within each house there are designated positions for a sports prefect, performing arts prefect and a charities prefect. House system There are six forms per year group, denoted by their house initials. Prior to 2006 they were denoted using the number system and prior to 1997 they were denoted A, alpha, B, Beta, P and pi. In September 2006 the house system was reimplemented (it had existed when the school was located at the Landsdowne site, before moving to its current position on Castle Lane). The houses were named after influential women with assigned house colours, as follows: Jane Austen (red), Marie Curie (green), Rosalind Franklin (blue), Rosa Parks (yellow), Christina Rossetti (purple) and Mary Shelley (turquoise). The emblem of the school is a snowdrop, which features on all the house badges. Productions The school has an award-winning handbell team, who have played at the Royal Albert Hall. Every other year the school performs a musical which involves the whole school. In recent years these have been West Side Story, Les Misérables, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Little Shop of Horrors, The Sound of Music, and Grease and Hairspray. The girls also participate in Bournemouth School's productions such as Bugsy Malone, Jesus Christ Superstar, and in 2014, a musical written by sixth form students based upon Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In the years where a musical is not performed, members of staff participate in a staff pantomime, with all proceeds going to charity. Other extra curricular activities Bournemouth School for Girls enters teams every year in the Mock Trial