The office hours are 7:30am – 5:30pm Monday to Friday. A voicemail service is provided outside these times.

During school holidays the office hours are 9.00am – 4.00pm.

School Office

📧 office@wgs.org

📞 01612241077

When contacting the school by phone, please select from the following options to direct your call:

Press 0 for the Main School Office

Press 1 to report your daughter’s absence – direct line: 01612493476

Press 2 for Admissions – direct line: 01612493371

Press 3 for the Junior School Office – direct line: 01612493499

Press 4 for Junior School Late Stay – direct line: 01612493474

Absence

Parents / guardians are required to advise School if their daughter is unable to attend school.  To report illness on the day, parents / guardians should telephone the designated absence line – 01612493476 or by pressing 1 on the switchboard – before 9.00am for each day of absence.

To request permission for any other absences, parents / guardians should email attendance@wgs.org. Notification of absence must be from a parent/guardian and cannot be accepted from students.

Admissions

Address

Withington Girls’ School,
100 Wellington Road,
Fallowfield,
Manchester,
M14 6BL

Directions

M60
Exit at Junction 5 [A5103 Princess Parkway]. You are now heading South on Princess Parkway. Take the first exit off Princess Parkway [at the large Airport Hotel]. Go under Princess Parkway and turn right immediately back onto the Parkway [A5103] heading North, towards Manchester. Cross the major intersection [Barlow Moor Road].
Pass a cemetery on the left, the Didsbury Point development on the right and then Hough End playing fields on the left. At the end of the playing fields turn right at the traffic lights into Mauldeth Road. Go through traffic lights at Yew Tree Road and take the second left into Wellington Road. The School is on the left hand side.

M56
Follow signs for Manchester.
The end of the M56 continues as Princess Parkway – a dual carriageway.
Head for Manchester avoiding the M60 slip road.
Cross the major intersection [Barlow Moor Road].
Pass a cemetery on the left, the Didsbury Point development on the right and then Hough End playing fields on the left. At the end of the playing fields turn right at the traffic lights into Mauldeth Road. Go through traffic lights at Yew Tree Road and take the second left into Wellington Road. The School is on the left hand side.

From Manchester
Take the A34 south from city centre. Continue on this road until the first roundabout at the end of Birchfields Road [approximately 3 miles]. Turn right into Moseley Road. Go straight ahead at traffic lights, crossing Wilmslow Road, then turn first left into Wellington Road. The School is on the right-hand side over the bridge.

Parking

Visitors to the school may use the Fallowfield Bowling Club car park (through the gates on the right-hand side ONLY) which is clearly signposted opposite the service entrance at the front of the school on Wellington Road. Alternatively, visitors may park on the roads around the School. Please do park with the safety of our pupils and consideration for our neighbours in mind, and remember to check parking restriction notices and road markings.