title: Sacred Heart Catholic High School, Newcastle upon Tyne
text: # Sacred Heart Catholic High School, Newcastle upon Tyne
  
  Sacred Heart High School is a secondary school with academy status for girls. It is located on Fenham Hall Drive in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
  
  ## General Information
  
  The school educates around 1,400 girls between the ages of eleven and eighteen on the site which has had a near £10 million makeover. The school consists of the main building, a technology and art building, a P.E. block, a maths and modern foreign languages building, a geography building, the sixth form centre, a small pottery and a dance studio. The uniform is currently (2015) a navy blue blazer and jumper, and a Douglas Tartan kilt or trousers(dark blue, light blue, green and white).
  
  ## History
  
  A private college was founded in Fenham Hall in 1903 becoming a Government-recognised boarding and day school in 1905, taking ex-pupil-teachers, scholarship and fee-paying pupils. The college initially opened with 60 pupils and was under the sponsorship of the Society of the Sacred Heart nuns. It went through a number of changes until 1926 when it obtained Direct Grant status and became a grammar school.
  
  The grammar school lasted until 1977 when it became the Sacred Heart Comprehensive School, taking girls from 11 – 18 years old. In 1998 it was renamed the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic High School.
  
  In 2007 the school signed up to the Building Schools for the Future initiative.
  
  ## Alumni
  
  * Donna Air, actress and television presenter
  * Aimee Kelly, actress
  * Catherine McKinnell (née Grady), Labour MP since 2010 for Newcastle upon Tyne North
  
  ### Sacred Heart Grammar School
  
  * Mary Glindon (née Mulgrove), Labour MP since 2010 for North Tyneside
  * Frances Lannon FRHistS, Principal from 2002 to 2015 of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
  * Dr Mo O'Toole, Professor of Creativity and Innovation at Newcastle University Business School, Labour MEP for North East England from 1999 to 2004
  
  ### Former teachers
  
  * Sister Bernadette Porter CBE (taught 1975–78), Vice-Chancellor from 1999 to 2004 of Roehampton University
  