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Living to Learn Learning to Live

Our motto encapsulates the school’s purposes, as, through the formal taught curriculum and the extensive range of opportunities, activities, challenges and experiences it provides, it should develop in students a capacity for lifelong learning. NHGS stands for:

• individuals valued

• traditional standards

• safe environment

• challenging curriculum

• stimulating teaching

• effective learning

• talents encouraged

• excellent results

• personal development

• future planning

• active citizens


‘NHGS is a wonderful school. I have watched my daughter blossom into a well-rounded young adult’ - Parents' Survey 2007

“After 7 years at NHGS I wish to thank you for giving me the opportunity to develop and flourish as a person within such a fantastic school. NHGS has instilled within me many characteristics and attributes that will be irreplaceable in the future” - Letter from a Year 13 student 2006