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Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls is a British independent public school in Elstree, near Borehamwood, in the county of Hertfordshire. Often known as "Habs" or "Habs Girls", to distinguish it from the neighbouring Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, the school was founded in 1875 by The Haberdashers' Company, one of the ancient livery companies of the City of London, through the agency of Robert Aske. It moved to its present site in 1974. The school is a selective academic day school with its main intakes at the ages of 4, 5, 7, 11 and 16. The current headmistress is Mrs Elizabeth Radish, the worst headmistree ever to have come to school. We are begging you, Mrs Penny, please come back. Save the school from ruination.A coach network shared with the neighbouring boys' school transports pupils from a catchment area stretching from St John's Wood in London to Harpenden and Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire Image File history File links Habslogo. ... Image File history File links Habslogo. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Elstree is a small village in Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire on the A5, north of London. ... For the village in Essex, see Boreham. ... For the similarly named county in the West Midlands region, see Herefordshire. ... The Haberdashers Askes Boys School is a British independent school in Elstree, near Borehamwood, in Hertfordshire. ... The Haberdashers Company, founded in 1371 as a City Livery Company, is an ancient guild of the City of London, and was originally an offshoot of The Mercers, a leading London merchant who largely dealt in textiles. ... Motto: Domine dirige nos Latin: Lord, guide us Shown within Greater London Sovereign state Constituent country Region Greater London Status City and Ceremonial County Admin HQ Guildhall Government  - Leadership see text  - Mayor John Stuttard  - MP Mark Field  - London Assembly John Biggs Area  - City  1. ... Robert Aske (24 February 1619–27 January 1689) was a merchant in the City of London. ... St Johns Wood is a district of North London, England in the City of Westminster, near Regents Park. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... This section has been identified as trivia. ... Not to be confused with Welwyn. ...

Class names

The school has different names for its classes. In the junior school, year group forms are classified as follows:

There are two classes in each year group (except Rainbow, which has one class), with about 20 pupils in each class.

The senior school year groups are classified as follows:

There are usually 4 classes in each year group up to year 11, called A, Aesc (pronounced "ash"), Aleph and Alpha, after the first letter of the Latin alphabet, the "Æ" grapheme, the first letter or the Arabic and Hebrew alphabets, and the first letter of the Greek alphabet. Occasionally, a fifth form is called Aske after Robert Aske, after whom the school is named. Each class has up to 28 pupils, two prefects, a Form Teacher and a Deputy Form Teacher. Lower and Upper Sixth form classes have about 14 pupils in each class. For other uses of A, see A (disambiguation). ... Æ is a grapheme formed from the letters a and e. ... is the reconstructed name of the first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, continued in descended Semitic alphabets as Phoenician , Syriac , Hebrew , , and Arabic . Aleph originally expressed the glottal stop (IPA ), usually transliterated as , a symbol based on the Greek spiritus lenis , for example in the transliteration of the letter... Alpha (uppercase Α, lowercase α) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... ABCs redirects here, for the Alien Big Cats, see British big cats. ... n. ... In typography, a grapheme is the atomic unit in written language. ... The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing languages such as Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and others. ... Note: This article contains special characters. ... The Greek alphabet (Greek: ) is an alphabet consisting of 24 letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 8th or early 9th century BC. It was the first alphabet in the narrow sense, that is, a writing system using a separate symbol for each vowel... Robert Aske (24 February 1619–27 January 1689) was a merchant in the City of London. ...

Awards

Scholarships and governers bursaries are awarded. Music scholarships pay for instrumental tuition. The Trotman scholarship is awarded in competition with other north london schools. The school has an excellence book which girls are asked to sign if they have excelled in a subject. Note: The term scholarship can mean either the methods employed by scholars (see scholarly method) or an award of access to an institution and/or money for an individual for the purposes of furthering their education. ...

Notable Alumnae

• Laura Aikman, Actress
• L.K.Bennett, Designer
• Vanessa Feltz, TV Personality
• Talulah Riley, Actress
• Natasha Kaplinsky, Newsreader

Vanessa Feltz (born February 21, 1962) is an English journalist and broadcaster. ... Talulah Riley is a British actress, born in 1985. ... Natasha presenting the BBC Six OClock News The image above is believed to be a replaceable fair use image. ...

External links

• School website