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

Key Dates

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INSET Day Monday 3 September

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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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