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MyDaughter was a British website set up by the Girls' Schools Association (GSA) offering advice to parents of daughters on all aspects of raising and educating girls.[1] Advice was provided by headteachers from the member schools of the Girls' Schools Association and other specialists in fields such as nutrition, psychology, health education and business.
Available in | English |
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Owner | Girls' Schools Association |
URL | http://www.mydaughter.co.uk/ |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | January 2009 |
Current status | Closed in 2014 |
History
editMyDaughter.co.uk was launched in January 2009 following a survey of a thousand parents of daughters, which highlighted a range of topics that were a cause of anxiety to parents. The research revealed that parents wanted help and advice on how to deal with these issues.[2] This led the Girls' Schools Association to develop the MyDaughter brand as a source of online advice for parents. The Girls' Schools Association was approached by the Friday Project, an imprint of Harper Collins who were to publish "Your Daughter", a book of the site, in January 2011.[3]
The website closed in 2014 with its functionality integrated into the GSA website.[4]
Content
editMyDaughter.co.uk contained articles and responses to questions on education choices, realising girls' full academic potential, dealing with eating disorders and signs of bullying, development stages, family relationships, sexual relationships,[5] social pressures and addictions, social networking sites and internet safety and communicating with teenage girls. Registered site users could post a question to be answered by a panel of experts.
The site featured notable alumnae[citation needed] from GSA schools including Claudia Winkleman, Claire Young and Miranda Krestovnikoff. It offered a search facility for girls' schools featuring all GSA schools.
MyDaughter schools
editThe following GSA member schools were included on the site.
- Abbots Bromley School for Girls
- Abbot's Hill School
- Alderley Edge School for Girls
- Amberfield School
- Badminton School
- Bedford Girls' School
- Benenden School
- Berkhamsted School
- Blackheath High School GDST
- Bolton School (Girls' Division)
- Bradford Girls' Grammar School
- Brighton & Hove High School GDST
- Bromley High School GDST
- Bruton School for Girls
- Burgess Hill School for Girls
- Bury Grammar School Girls
- Casterton School
- Central Newcastle High School GDST
- Channing School
- City of London School for Girls
- Cobham Hall School
- Combe Bank School
- Craigholme School
- Cranford House School
- Croydon High School GDST
- Dame Allan's Girls' School
- Derby High School
- Dodderhill School
- Downe House
- Dunottar School
- Durham High School for Girls
- Edgbaston High School for Girls
- Farlington School
- Farnborough Hill
- Farringtons School
- Fernhill School
- Francis Holland Sch (Regent's Park)
- Francis Holland Sch (Sloane Square)
- Gateways School
- Greenacre School for Girls
- Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls
- Harrogate Ladies' College
- Heathfield School
- Heathfield School Pinner GDST
- Hethersett Old Hall School
- Highclare School
- Hollygirt School
- Holy Trinity School
- Howell's School (Denbigh)
- Howell's School, Llandaff GDST
- Ipswich High School GDST
- James Allen's Girls' School
- Kent College, Pembury
- Kilgraston School
- King Edward VI High School for Girls
- King's High School
- Lavant House
- Leicester High School for Girls
- Leweston School
- Lodge School, Purley
- Loughborough High School
- Luckley House School
- Malvern St James
- Manchester High School for Girls
- Manor House School
- Marymount International School
- Merchant Taylors' School for Girls
- Moira House Girls' School
- More House School
- Moreton Hall
- New Hall School
- North London Collegiate School
- Northampton High School GDST
- Northwood College
- Norwich High School GDST
- Notre Dame Senior School
- Notting Hill & Ealing High GDST
- Nottingham Girls' High School GDST
- Ockbrook School
- Old Palace of John Whitgift School
- Oldham Hulme Grammar Schools
- Oxford High School GDST
- Palmers Green High School
- Peterborough High School
- Pipers Corner School
- Polam Hall School
- Portsmouth High School GDST
- Prior's Field School
- Putney High School GDST
- Queen Anne's School Caversham
- Queen Margaret's School (York)
- Queen Mary's School (Thirsk)
- Queen's College London
- Queen's Gate School
- Queenswood
- Redland High School for Girls
- Roedean School
- Royal Masonic School for Girls
- Rye St Antony School
- Saint Martin's
- School of St Helen & St Katharine
- Sheffield High School GDST
- Sherborne Girls
- Shrewsbury High School GDST
- Sir William Perkins's School
- South Hampstead High School GDST
- St Albans High School
- St Andrew's School
- St Catherine's School, Bramley
- St Catherine's School, Twickenham
- St Dominic's High School for Girls
- St Dominic's Priory School
- St Francis' College
- St Gabriel's School
- St George's School, Ascot
- St George's School for Girls (Edinburgh)
- St Helen's School
- St James Senior Girls' School
- St Joseph's Convent School
- St Leonards-Mayfield School[1]
- St Margaret's School (Edinburgh)
- St Margaret's School (Exeter)
- St Margaret's School, Bushey
- St Margaret's School for Girls (Aberdeen)
- St Margaret's School Hampstead
- St Martha's Senior School
- St Mary's Convent School
- St Mary's School Ascot
- St Mary's School Calne
- St Mary's School Cambridge
- St Mary's School Colchester
- St Mary's School Gerrards Cross
- St Mary's School, Shaftesbury
- St Nicholas' School
- St Paul's Girls' School
- St Swithun's School
- St Teresa's School Effingham
- Stephen Perse Foundation
- Stonar School
- Stover School
- Streatham & Clapham High GDST
- Surbiton High School
- Sutton High School GDST
- Sydenham High School GDST
- Talbot Heath School
- Teesside High School
- The Abbey School
- The Brigidine School
- The Cheltenham Ladies' College
- The Godolphin and Latymer School
- The Godolphin School
- The Grammar School at Leeds
- The Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls
- The Kingsley School
- The Ladies' College
- The Lady Eleanor Holles School
- The Marist Senior School
- The Mary Erskine School
- The Maynard School
- The Mount School (London)
- The Mount School (York)
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Church High
- The Princess Helena College
- The Queen's School Chester
- The Red Maids' School
- The Royal High School Bath GDST
- The Royal School Hampstead
- The Royal School Haslemere
- The Stamford Endowed Schools
- Thornton College
- Tormead School
- Truro High School for Girls
- Tudor Hall
- Wakefield Girls' High School
- Walthamstow Hall
- Westfield School
- Westholme School
- Westonbirt
- Wimbledon High School GDST
- Withington Girls' School
- Woldingham School
- Wychwood School
- Wycombe Abbey School
- Wykeham House School
References
edit- ^ Frean, Alexandra (2008-11-15). "Headmistresses offer key to teenage girls through MyDaughter website". The Times.
- ^ BBC News, 9 January 2009, "Girls 'under too much pressure'"
- ^ Allen, Katie (3 February 2010). "TFP to publish Girls School advice". The Bookseller.
- ^ "MyDaughter". Archived from the original on 18 December 2014.
MyDaughter.co.uk is now part of the GSA website
- ^ Daily Express, 23 July 2010, "Kimberley Walsh - Could this be the new age of morality?"