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  1. Withington without the ‘I’ Competition

    What would Withington be like if 1 in 5  chairs in the classroom were empty? Without you or your friend?

    Since the launch of the 100 Plus Bursary Appeal in 2005, we have raised almost £1.7 million towards ensuring that …

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  2. Withington in the City, 30 March

    Our first ‘Audience with….’ style event for Alumnae, Withington in the City, was held on Tuesday 30th March 2010 at the City of London School for Girls, at the Barbican in London, and proved a great hit with everyone who …

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  3. Particle Physics: Past, Present and Future

    On 22nd April 2010, Professor F K Loebinger, Leader of the Manchester team working on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN will be visiting School to lecture on the topic of Particle Physics: Past, Present and …

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  4. One Year On in Withington’s Development Office

    10 years ago I left Withington Girls' School after 11 years of being a pupil. I had a really good time at school, but I was very happy, aged 18, to be waving goodbye at the school gates and taking on the thrilling challenges that lay before me at university and beyond.

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  5. Withington Alumna meets Jesse Jackson

    Withington Alumna Rebecca Usden was in the presence of a Civil Rights legend recently, when she was part of a delegation playing host to the Rev. Jesse Jackson as he spoke at the Cambridge Union.

    Rebecca, who left School in …

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  6. Alumna survives Chilean Earthquake

    Alumnae will no doubt already be aware of the devastating earthquake which struck Chile on Saturday 27 February. The quake, which measured 8.5 on the Richter scale in Santiago and 8.8 in Concepción, is the seventh most powerful on record, …

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  7. Laura Carstensen: High-Flying Alumna

    Laura Carstensen, 1979 Year Leaver, has been appointed the Deputy Chairwoman of the Competition Commission.

    Laura, whom fellow Alumnae may have seen profiled in The Times' ‘Movers and Shakers' feature on 29 January 2010, joined the Commission in a part-time …

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  8. Former Pupil wins Award

    A broadcast of a choral arrangement composed by Withington's very own Sasha Johnson Manning [1981 Year Leaver] has won an illustrious award at a ceremony in London.

    Sasha's composition The Manchester Carols, was set to words by Carol Ann Duffy …

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  9. Inspirational Old Girl Visits School

    Following on from her talk at the Senior Club AGM on Saturday, Alumna Ann Lipson [1956 year leaver] addressed the Senior School Assembly on Monday, before spending the morning with the Junior School talking to them about her work at …

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  10. Famous Old Girl serenades Withington

    Acclaimed mezzo-soprano and Old Girl Christine Rice returned to school to sing the O Don Fatale aria from Verdi's opera Don Carlos to a full Arts Centre on June 23. Christine is the second illustrious visitor to grace the Arts …

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