Newland School for Girls
Academy converter secondary school in Hull (Kingston upon Hull, City of).
Location
iSchool location from Get Information about Schools. Nearby schools are coloured by phase. Open Map+ for a full-screen map with neighbourhood deprivation (England only).About
I am delighted to take this opportunity to showcase our school and to help you make the right decision in choosing a school that will ensure your daughter thrives and succeeds. Newland School for Girls is a diverse, highly aspirational and academically high achieving school. We are rightly proud of being all-girls, serving and educating young ladies in Hull for over 100 years.
We encourage every student to have high aspirations and the ambition to succeed.
Newland School for Girls is recognised as the one of the highest achieving schools in Yorkshire, we share our successes with other schools and have been involved in shaping the Department for Education Character Education as well as invited by them to be an Attendance and Behaviour Hub, due to our outstanding attendance and behaviour, to show other schools how to achieve the same excellence.
In the school’s own words, from the school website.
Awards
2 awardsiFound on the school website by WhatSchool. Not verified by Governance Register; the school website is the authority.- Inclusion Quality MarkInclusion
- Music MarkMusic
Key facts
- URN
- 144307
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Gender
- Girls
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Local authority
- Kingston upon Hull, City of
- Constituency
- Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 2017
Governing body (8 current, 2 former)
iAcademy trust: local governing body and trust board.2 governors are linked to a profile (1 confirmed, 1 (likely)).
Governors marked “Confirmed same person” have exactly the same forename and surname as the only officer of that name at the school’s own academy trust company on the Companies House register, so we treat them as the same person. The governance record itself comes from DfE.
Leadership
| Name | Role | How appointed | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Bill Maxwell (likely) | Chair of Local Governing Body | Appointed by GB/board | since 2022 · until 2028 |
Full governing body
| Name | Role | How appointed | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miss Gabriella Calvert | Local Governor | Elected by school staff | since 2026 · until 2030 |
| Dr Jo Metcalf | Local Governor | Elected by parents | since 2026 · until 2030 |
| Mrs Joanne Ward | Local Governor | Elected by parents | since 2024 · until 2028 |
| Mrs Helen Harrison Confirmed same person | Local Governance Professional - Individual Academy or Free SchoolGovernance professional | since 2023 | |
| Ms Vicky Callaghan | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2016 · until 2027 ends 2027 |
| Mr Lee Tether | Local Governor | Interim Executive Board | since 2014 · until 2030 |
| Ms Ann Haddock | Local Governor | Interim Executive Board | since 2014 · until 2030 |
| Mr Nick Entwisle Former | Local Governor | Elected by parents | since 2024 · term ended 2025 |
| Mr Andrew Harris Former | Local Governor | Elected by school staff | since 2022 · term ended 2026 |
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools (governance records, as at 25 October 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Names are shown as published; there are no addresses or contact details. Current and former are worked out from term end dates when the page loads. Object or ask for removal · Report an issue with this record