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I would love someone to post abbreviations of the various schools. I am new to this forum and completely bewildered about which school people are talking about when they abreviate the name. Though ofcourse its one way of avoiding being sued if you have something not very flattering to say about the school.
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Essex and Southend area grammar schools
KEGS King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford
CCHS Chelmsford County High School or Colchester County High School (very confusingly)
CRGS Colchester Royal Grammar School
WHSB Westcliff High School for Boys
WHSG Westcliff High School for Girls
SHSB Southend High School for Boys
SHSG Southend High School for Girls
STM St Thomas More (semi-selective)
KEGS King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford
CCHS Chelmsford County High School or Colchester County High School (very confusingly)
CRGS Colchester Royal Grammar School
WHSB Westcliff High School for Boys
WHSG Westcliff High School for Girls
SHSB Southend High School for Boys
SHSG Southend High School for Girls
STM St Thomas More (semi-selective)
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Gloucestershire:
Pate's, mixed, Cheltenham
in Gloucester
STRS / Tommy's = Sir Thomas Rich (boys only - girls in 6th form), in brother" to Denmark Rd)
Denmark Rd, or DRd = High School for Girls, (girls, with boys in 6th form)
The Crypt (boys only)
Ribston (girls only)
and in Stroud
Stroud High - girls
Marling - boys
Pate's, mixed, Cheltenham
in Gloucester
STRS / Tommy's = Sir Thomas Rich (boys only - girls in 6th form), in brother" to Denmark Rd)
Denmark Rd, or DRd = High School for Girls, (girls, with boys in 6th form)
The Crypt (boys only)
Ribston (girls only)
and in Stroud
Stroud High - girls
Marling - boys
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Just to correct the above,bromley mum wrote:Kent schools
TOGS Tonbridge Grammar School
TGS (also called TWIGS) Tunbridge Wells Grammar School
TOGS (also TGS) Tonbridge Grammar School for Girls. (Not to be confused with Tonbridge School which is an Independent boys school)
TWGGS (also called TWIGS) - Tunbridge Wells Girls Grammar School
TWGBS - Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys.