Pretoria High School for Girls | |
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Address | |
949 Park Street, Arcadia , South Africa | |
Coordinates | 25°45′03″S 28°13′35″E / 25.7508°S 28.2265°E |
Information | |
School type | All girls public school |
Motto | Prosit Spes Labori (We Work in Hope) |
Established | 10 October 1902 |
Founder | Edith Aitken |
Sister school | Pretoria Boys High School |
School district | District 9 |
School number | +27 (012) 430 7341 |
Headmistress | Philipa Erasmus |
Staff | 100 full-time |
Grades | 8–12 |
Gender | Female |
Age | 14 to 18 |
Number of students | 1,300 girls |
Language | English |
Schedule | 07:30 - 14:00 |
Campus | Urban Campus |
Campus type | Suburban |
Houses | Boarding houses: North Lodge School house Daygirl houses: Aitken Athlone Buxton Clarendon Connaught Duncan Gladstone McWilliam Selborne Van Zyl |
Colour(s) | Blue Green |
Sports | Hockey Netball Waterpolo Tennis Equestrian Athletes Basketball Squash Diving Soccer |
Nickname | Girls High |
Rivals | |
Accreditation | Gauteng Department of Education |
Yearbook | The Pretorian |
Feeder schools |
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Alumni | Old Girls Association |
Website | phsg |
Pretoria High School for Girls (often called PHSG), is a full-government, fee-charging, English-medium high school for girls located in Hatfield, Pretoria in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It is the sister school to Pretoria Boys High School.[1]
The high school was founded in 1902 by Edith Aitken.