Windsor Girls’ School
13 July 2018
GB Rowing
Congratulations to Eve Lombardo and Tara Brogan, Year 11, who represented Great Britain at the annual J16 Rowing match against France, at Vaires-sur-Marne, near Paris on Thursday, 12 July. Eve and Tara were part of the winning quad which helped the British Girls to victory over France. We look forward to Eve and Tara’s future successes.
Dear Parents and Carers The penultimate week of term has been full of activities, events and opportunities for our students. At the start of the week, a group of Year 9 students took part in a vocational based taster day at Langley College. The day aimed to provide students with information about future choices and areas which are not currently offered at school. Students were able to see the different departments such as Motor Vehicle, Hair and Beauty and Childcare. Also this week, 24 students from Years 9 and 10 participated in the district sports event at TVAC. Students represented the school very well and are showing that they can compete at the highest level. There is further information on the later pages of this newsletter. On Tuesday evening, Year 11 celebrated the end of their examinations with their prom at Windsor Racecourse. Students enjoyed getting dressed up and they looked great. We look forward to welcoming them to Year 12 in September. Year 12 took part in a session on democracy and voter registration this week. The interactive session was delivered by the Electoral Services Team, who were impressed by the students’ knowledge and contributions. Also this week, some of our new Student Leaders attended a leadership conference at Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School in Marlow. They returned full of ideas and were inspired to launch some new ideas in September. Year 12 historians visited the National Archives in Kew to develop their historical investigation skills. They were able to access primary documents including criminal records of famous Suffragettes such as Emily Davidson and Emmeline Pankhurst. Students who are going on the Costa Rica trip, in July 2019, had the opportunity to bond with each other when they had a team building session and a game of rounders after school on Wednesday. Students will be involved in many aspects of the trip and are required to work together to plan and fundraise. The Interact Club were also busy fundraising on Wednesday, at break time, with a mini fair. Students were able to take part in a range of activities and games, as well as guessing the teachers’ baby photos. The Duke of Edinburgh Award continues to be a real strength of our extra-curricular offer. Six students completed their Gold expedition in the Brecon Beacons this week, and a further 95 Bronze Award participants will be undertaking their final expedition over the next week. Good luck to all students and staff involved. Mrs G. Labrum
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Year Information
Year 9 Students will be taking part in Activities Week and will be following a carousel of activities over three days, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The full programme is included in this newsletter. Students are allowed to wear their own clothes during these days but are reminded to dress appropriately. Some of the activities will be outside and sun cream and hats are advised as the warm weather is set to continue. Year 10 Year 10 will be taking part in the Work Ready Conference, in conjunction with Learning to Work. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, students will have the opportunity to meet and network with 50 professionals from a variety of different industries. Students have been asked to come in to school in ‘business dress’ on these days. Year 11 Results will be available on Thursday, 23 August from 9:00am. Staff will be on hand to support and to make any adjustments to Sixth Form options.
Next week is the final week of the academic year. Term ends on Friday at 12:30pm. House events will take place on this day and students are encouraged to wear sportswear in their house colours. Lessons continue as normal on Monday, 16 July. The WLP musical showcase takes place on Monday, 16 July at Windsor Girls’ School at 6:30pm. There will be performances from all WLP schools. The Upper School’s concert takes place on Tuesday evening at Windsor Boys’ School at 6:30pm.
SIXTH FORM Year 12 Year 12 are taking part in Enrichment Week next week, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We will be welcoming a wide range of speakers to share information about the next step after Windsor Girls’. Themes include UCAS applications, apprenticeships, studying and working abroad, and Gap years. We are pleased to welcome back Jane Marshall, Widening Participation Manager from Imperial College, London, and George Fussey from Eton College. The final day for Year 12 will be Thursday, 19 July. Year 13 Results will be available on Thursday, 16 August from 8:00am. This is the same time that the UCAS website updates and students will learn if their grades have secured their places at university.
Headteacher Commendations Headteacher Commendations are awarded to students for outstanding work, effort, behaviour and achievements. This term students have received bronze, silver, gold and platinum Headteacher Commendations for merit achievements.
Bronze = 70 merits
Silver = 120 – 170 merits
Gold = 170 – 220 merits
Platinum = 220+ merits
Year 9 - Bronze Award
Sophie Adam
Flora Broad
Elora Carrard
Naia Hill
Lauren Hughes
Hannah Liddell
Holly Newman
Rebecca Riley
Agatha Thomson
Amelia Tickell
Year 9 - Silver Award
Wendy Alves
Katy Anderson
Ellie Ballantyne-Clark
Simran Basra-Jones
Poppy Bullock
Maleeha Chandhar
Imogen Clark
Jorja Connery
Kiera Craig
Chloe Fitch
Adi Galuakadua
Megan-Paige Geere
Eloise Gibbs
Zoe Grant
Abigail Gulliver
Maja Guzynska
Faye Haswell
Lauren Hawthorne
Zara Jafri
Maya Kara
Termeh Karambakhsh
Courtney Keywood
Leiona Lewis
Betty Lloyd
Ellie Macnab
Mohini Mair
Stacy Martins
Phoebe Medcalf
Freya Meek
Anna Middleton-Jones
Louise Miller
Demi Mohammed
Harriet Moss
Felicity Mounch
Florence Nandan
Georgia Pearson
Saffron Pires
Daisy Plumb
Frances Rae
Bethany Salter
Ellie Smith
Ana Souza Mendougada
Kelsei Thompson
Regina Tilezhinskaya
Aisha Touray
Vicky Zientarska
Headteacher Commendations
Sara Afgan
Laura Arnold
Eliza Bean
Libby Brake
Abigail Clare-Panton
Marnie Cox-Harrison
Lizzie Duxbury
Lillie Egleton
Mya Glasgow
Millie Hamid
Chloe Harberd
Eloisa Harris
Ruby Hill-Rutter
Annabel Hodgkinson
Midha Hussain
Keira Jacobs Shrivastava
Charlie Johal
Marcia Karavis
Faiza Kazmi
Kim Mandizvidza
Alexandra Marques
Louise McDonald
Tia Mills
Courtney Moseley
Shannon O’Brien
Scarlett O’Shaughnessy
Kate Penny
Lauren Russell
Ellena Seeburg
Alice Sereda
Sami Sert
Evie Shurety
Olivia Shurley
Isla Slade
Jessica Swainston
Rosie Thomas
Jess Tracey
Ellie Vickers
Libby Weaving
Molly White
Year 9 - Gold Award
Year 9 - Platinum Award
Vivienne Alija
Dua Atharkhan
Fiona Barclay
Juliet Bryant
Olatz Bulson-Roman
Xanthe Chamberlain
Avneeta Chana
Ella Clarke
Minnie Dennis
Ciara Eastabrook
Eleanor Elmes
Alysha Goldsworthy
Maisy Goodall
Katie Hale
Evie Hannon
Abigail Hanson
Emily Hanson
Maddie Hession
Rosie Howard
Molly Jones
Olivia Lawes
Cerys McCarthy
Tailah McCarthy
Emma Moretti
Sarah Newell
Nancy O’Shea
Coralie Owona
Lily Piper
Zoe Pugsley
Jessica Riddell
Lydia Sampson
Eloise Sharkey
Gigi Stephens
Roseanna Thomas
Hermione Varley
Mia Vickerman
Maya Waller
Camille Wallis-Desablens
Headteacher Commendations
Lucy Davis
Olivia Haigh
Ruby Robinson
Issy Teeder
Maisie White
Year 10 - Bronze Award
Year 10 - Silver Award
Mahima Abedin
Amber Atkinson
Anjali Bains
Bo Barrack
Kate Betteridge
Ananki Bhavra
Tia Binstead
Emily Cave
Jawairiya Chaudhry
Izzy Copper
Emily Cox
Sophie Craig
Ella Croft
Katie Davis
Lily-Grace Dawson
Bailey Dickinson
Cara Doherty
Honey Eastell
Madison Fetigan
Lily Foreman
Jannat Ghafoor
Natasha Goldsworthy
Ava Hewitt
Megan Hughes
Jodie Humphries
Alisha Hussain
Zara Ivan
Abbie Jackson-Brench
Zaina Khan
Jasmin Lewis
Amina Mahmood
Jannat Mahmood
Aneesha Mohamed
Honor Morgan
Rosie O’Connor
Naomi Parsons
Kiran Sangha
Emilyanna Smith
Olivia Swain
Ariela Veizaj
Mannat Verma
Millie Versoni
Aaliya Waheed
Amy Williams
Muskan Zahra
Year 10 - Gold Award
Amisha Chaggar
Ellie Charles-Collett
Caitlin Devine
Rachel East
Grace Fallows
Emily Florida-James
Lucy Horsburgh
Lilybeth Ihezue
Emma Knowles
Oliwia Lewandowska
Cara MacKay
Lauren Maidlow
Ella Matthews
Rebecca McGurdy
Isobel Moore
Ilaria Okusaga
Natasha Robbins
Caitlin Woollaston
Headteacher Commendations
Daniela Alcantarini
Chantal Jamila Bundalian
Bibi Cheema
Gracie Clarke
Lizzie Esterhuizen
Olivia Finnigan
Celeste Fisher
Jessica Groves
Sahara Gurung
Lilly Hobbins
Ceara Hutcheson
Millie Jackson
Sydney Jones
Abigail Leedom
Kanzah Muhammad
Yasmin Sfendla
Emma-Rose Snooks
Teagan Speller
Ella Tarling
Gursimran Vaid
Faye Wong
Year 10 - Platinum Award
National Archives, Kew
Year 12 historians took part in an interactive session at the National Archives, Kew this week. The session allowed students to handle primary documents and see history at first hand. The sessions were designed to refine historical enquiry skills ahead of the students undertaking coursework in Year 13. Students were especially fascinated by the documents based on women's suffrage; in particular documents on Emily Wilding Davison, the lady who threw herself in front of the King's horse at the Derby in 1913. Students discovered that, unlike previous historical interpretations of the event, Davison was intending to become a martyr to the suffrage movement and that she had made numerous attempts to do so. Students also focused on their individual research and could request to see files, documents and photographs which have previously been 'locked' for 30 or even 70 years for security reasons.
National Students’ Art Exhibition
Windsor Girls’ School is delighted to announce that a number of Year 11 Art students have had pieces selected for exhibition at The Dover Federation for the Arts Multi Academy Trust’s National
Students’ Art Exhibition, at The Mall Galleries, London, from 18 to 21 July. The exhibition opening is on Wednesday, 18 July, at 3:00pm, and entry to the exhibition is free. The standard of submissions was, according to the organisers, extraordinarily high, so many congratulations to Ffion Jones, who has had three pieces selected, ‘Pride’, ‘BTS’ and ‘David Bowie’. Also selected for exhibition are Aliya Pirchard-Casey’s piece, ‘Marine Pollution’ and Imogen Waller’s ‘Trio’. Ellen Donaldson’s piece, ‘Ellen’ has been highly commended by the judging panel. Please visit https://nsae.co.uk/ for further information.
Ffion Jones - ‘Pride’, ‘BTS’ & ‘David Bowie’
Ellen Donaldson - ‘Ellen’
Aliya Prichard-Casey -
‘Marine Pollution’ Imogen Waller - ‘Trio’
Interact Club Investiture
On Monday, 9 July, Windsor Girls’ School played host to His Worship the Mayor of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, Councillor Paul Lion. Accompanied by Madam Mayoress, as well as esteemed guests from the Windsor St George and Windsor and Eton Rotary Clubs, they gathered at the school for the investiture ceremony of the 2017-2018 Interact Club. Attended by members of staff, parents and pupils, the ceremony was a fine exhibition of the work, dedication and pageantry befitting the efforts of this year's cohort of Interactors. Board of Directors members Grace Asquith-Evans, Navleen Bhachu, Isabelle Jackson-Brench, and Ishika Sabharwal were awarded their chains of office and were received formally into the Rotary Family.
Interact Mini-Fair
On Wednesday, 11 July, the Interact Club of Windsor Girls’ School staged their final fundraising event for their chosen charities, Girls Not Brides and the Windsor CFR. Holding a mini-fair outside, there were henna tattoos, a sweet throw, donuts, drinks, and ice-lollies all for sale, and a Guess The Teacher and Guess The Sweets! Interact would like to thank all staff and pupils for their support this year with their charities.
Year 11 Prom
Year 11 celebrated the end of their examinations on Tuesday evening, with their Prom, held at Windsor Racecourse. The students looked fantastic in their finery. We look forward to welcoming them into Year 12 in September.
Costa Rica Trip
On Monday, 9 July, the Year 9 and 10 athletics team took part in the district championships, we had a very strong team and did brilliantly. The day started with the 80m hurdles where Emily Helsby competed and came second in her race, next it was the 100m where we had both Abbie Jackson-Brench and Lucy Scott competing and who both performed fantastically, both qualifying for the final. After this was Caitlin Wollaston in the 200m, who put in a great effort, leading to the last of the sprints which was the 300m. In this race, Natasha Goldsworthy and Emily Helsby both ran in separate races and both managed to place in the top three. We then moved on to the two middle distance events starting with the 800m, where Lily Rolfe and Amy Kemp should both be very proud of their times, they ran like the wind. And lastly, the 1500m, in which Lily Rolfe (again!) and Ava Hewitt made the team proud and obtained wonderful times. In the field events, Amy Kemp wowed us with her long jump, while Lilybeth Ihezue obliterated her competition in the shot putt. Emily Helsby and Lucy Scott finished their high jump with high spirits and Lily Rolfe and Ava Hewitt should be elated with the great distances they achieved. Finally, the day ended with the relay which we won by miles due to our incredible team (Natasha Goldsworthy, Lilybeth Ihezue, Abbie Jackson-Brench and Caitlin Wollaston). Overall, our Year 9 team came third, and our Year 10 team came second. Thank you to all the PE teachers for taking us and all of the athletes who should all be really proud! What a great day! By Emily Helsby Year 10 Athletics Captain
PE News
Wednesday evening saw a team building session for the students who will be travelling to Costa Rica in July 2019. The students, who will be working together on projects and fundraising, enjoyed some friendly rivalry with a game of rounders.
Windsor Castle Workshop
The Creative Dimension Trust
Furniture, Gilding & Cabinet Making Workshop
Windsor Castle
Monday, 30 July to Friday, 3 August
Available to applicants aged 16 to 18.
This free, week long course, is led by craft specialists in furniture making, gilding and cabinet
making. During the week, you will work to combine these skills to create a piece to keep.
The course will take place at Home Park, adjoining Windsor Castle, where the Royal Household
has recently completed some of the best workshop facilities in the UK.
The Creative Dimension Trust runs courses for young people who are interested in pursuing
further study or a career in the craft sector or a related field (e.g. architecture or engineering).
For the application criteria and information on this course, and to view the other courses available,
please visit:
http://thecreativedimension.org/workshops
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