Many congratulations to Caroline Harrison (OG, 1982), Chief Executive Officer of the Aspire-igen group who won Director of the Year Award (not for profit) at the Yorkshire Business Leaders Awards 2017 yesterday.

Caroline, leader of the successful social enterprise competed for top honour...

Three Old Girls came into school to talk about their experiences 'post - WGHS', having all studied textiles or fashion at university.

The Old Girls consisted of; (from left to right) Jess Theaker (OG, 2010), who is a Buyers Admin Assistant at Boohoo.com,.Sophia Lindley (OG, 2012),...

Wakefield Grammar School Foundation were delighted to welcome fighter pilot, astronaut and Top Gun stuntman, Scott Altman in school this week.

Children from across the Foundation in years 6-13 were invited to listen to a lecture from Scott. He told a captivated audience about his journey to ...

This week we had the pleasure of a visit from Rachel McIntyre (OG, 1989). This is the first time Rachel has been back to school since she left and she remarked on how much things had changed, particularly the library.

Rachel came into school to give a workshop with girls from years 7-11. Ra...

Kirsty Loveday (OG, 1997) visited school on Friday to take part in an assembly with Mr Eggleston, Deputy Head and later a question and answer session with senior school business studies students.

Kirsty talked about her career to date, how she was awarded the British Empire medal in the Queen...

Kiruthika Rajeswaran (OG, 2010) returned to school last week to talk to pupils about self-esteem, WGHS theme this half term.

Kiruthika now owns her own start up business and has taken part in pageants but despite her obvious success, she talked candidly about her own issues in the past ...