Block built in 1906, with extra classrooms and a dining room added in 1929, 1939 and 1958. This block is currently used for teaching Maths, History, Classics, Computing and Art. It also houses the school library, which formerly served as dormitories for boarding students. The Main Hall, used for plays and assemblies, is situated there. A Science and Gym Block built in 1972, which is used for indoor PE lessons and for the teaching of all three sciences The Lower Block built in 1978, which contains specialist teaching rooms for Design and Technology and is also used for English and Modern Foreign Languages Highbury House, a music and foreign language teaching area A Sixth Form Centre which features a common room and several teaching areas for those in the Hitchin Consortium Woodside, a new block of classrooms designated for the increased intake of Year 7 students, which was finished on 5 September 2018 House system The school is split into eight houses, with six established in 2004 and two added in 2018 to accommodate an expansion of the school. Notable former pupils Joanna Haigh, physicist and academic Catherine Heymans, astrophysicist Emma Kennedy, English television actress, writer and presenter Pauline Pearce, politician and viral "Heroine of Hackney" Eileen Soper, artist Claire Tomalin, biographer and Whitbread Book Award winner Bibliography Douglas, Priscilla Mary; Donald, Joyce; Duignan, Elizabeth (1988) The School on the Hill References External links Official site Girls' schools in Hertfordshire Academies in Hertfordshire Educational institutions established in 1889 Hitchin Buildings and structures in Hitchin 1889 establishments in England Secondary schools in Hertfordshire