A few pictures from our wonderful day. HRH had a fantastic performance from our choir, spent time with Duke of Edinburgh students, A Level Art students and had the ‘Girls in Green’ book presented by our famous old girl, Phyllis.
@RoyalFamily
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✨The Windsor Girls' school shared some pics of The Duke of Edinburgh's visit yesterday.
HRH watched a choir performance, chatted with students and was presented with their 'Girls in Green’ book.
Looks like it was a lovely visit 😊
📸Windsor Girls' School
A tremendous and momentous celebration
@WGSWindsorGirls
today - the official opening of The Gill Labrum Sixth Form Centre by HRH Duke of Edinburgh. A brilliant day! Official photos to follow.
@RoyalFamily
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Great to see Ex-Windsor Girls’ School student Emily Murphy coming on for Ireland against England this evening. What a bright future she has!
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A short snippet from a tremendously talented group of
@WindsorLearning
students! Every single student, staff, parent and helper involved should be incredibly proud
@WGSWindsorGirls
@TWBS
Enjoy the rest of the week! 🎼 🎭
Our testing centre is up and running! Thank you to our staff and volunteers for making this happen. As it stands we will start testing with Y13 tomorrow. An email has been sent with timings.
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As you are aware there have been a number of announcements this evening regarding school closures and examinations.We will remain open tomorrow to Years 10,11,12,13 with Year 9 working remotely.We will provide a full and further update tomorrow. We are grateful for your support.
‘We are incredibly proud of this wonderful set of outcomes. The resilience and determination shown by every student has been fantastic. Our staff have supported them every step of the way. Well done to all’
@MrsOCarrollWGS
@MrGriffithsWGS
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We are delighted and excited to present our new Head Girl, Larissa, Deputy Head Girl, Katie, and Senior Student Leaders. A great team and fantastic representatives for our school
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We are truly saddened to learn of the passing of Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II, at the age of 96.
The thoughts of everyone at Windsor Girls’ School are with the Royal Family at this difficult time.
Congratulations to all the cast involved and a special thank you to our incredible staff for making it a wonderful experience for all our students
#Matilda
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Overwhelmed by the amount of support being offered by parents, governors and staff to help get mass testing off the ground. This is what our community is all about.
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Parents and carers, you are doing a fantastic job supporting your daughters remote learning. Please don’t worry about whether they are doing enough. Our team are here to support them and will make sure that no one is left behind. Please try and take a break over the weekend!
What a crop! Thank you to everyone that donated produce for our Harvest foodbank appeal. Over 650 items have been collected and off to Windsor Foodshare. House results will be announced in Assemblies next week.
Staff, Parents and Students - stand down. You’ve been incredible this term and deserve a break. Thank you for all of your efforts - what an amazing community we have!
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‘It’s been great to meet so many students and are pleased we could support the school by managing the testing centre’ Mrs Hickman, Mrs Saran and Mrs Gardner have been fantastic throughout this period.
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Following on from tonight’s announcement we will continue to offer on site provision to vulnerable students and students of key workers. Remote learning will begin tomorrow for all Year Groups. Thank you for your continued support
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Since 2014, fourteen Windsor Girls’ School students have joined the NHS as doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals. Further students are training now for future positions. They started their journey here with us!
We are hugely excited to celebrate 100 years of our fantastic school on 19th September 2020! Look out for further details on our celebratory event here and via our newsletter. Please share with all past students so that they can join us to remember, reunite and celebrate!
Delighted to be recognised and celebrated as one of the top schools in the local area. Thank you to our fantastic staff, students and parents who contribute to our amazing school
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A proud day as we announced our new Head Girl (Poppy) and Deputy Head Girl (Alix). Here they are with our wonderful new team of Senior Student Leaders. An exciting year ahead!
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Our school fell silent at 11am today and you could’ve heard a pin drop. A hugely moving tribute and observed wonderfully by our community.
#WeWillRememberThem
Although it is a strange feeling closing the school today our community has been consistently fantastic. Please look after yourselves and each other and also for our regular updates
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We are very pleased to hear that the Government and OFQUAL are accepting Centre Assessed Grades. We will communicate with all Year 13 students this evening on next steps. Please check your emails for updates.
Meet Harriet and Bibi, our Senior Student Leaders of the Wellbeing committee. Today a pre recorded clip will be shared with all students to introduce Harriet and Bibi in their new roles and highlight the importance of
#WorldMentalHealthDay
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Incredibly proud of
@WGSWindsorGirls
community today. Year 11 and 13 assemblies were held as well as staff briefing to help navigate these uncertain times. Thank you for your positive messages, support and community spirit
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Just some of our fantastic Support Staff working hard behind the scenes so that we can welcome our wonderful students back safely- we can’t wait!
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We were thrilled to welcome our fabulous new Year 9 students! Testing ✅ Tutor Group activities ✅ Egg Drop Challenge ✅Dragons’ Den ✅
#greatstart
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Yesterday we held a mock General Election and with a turn out of 63% the results are as follows: Labour 197 Liberal 155, Conservative 90, Green 20 and Brexit 8. How will this compare to the national picture?
Congratulations to Daisy, our newly appointed Head Girl and Emily, our Deputy Head Girl. Along with the Student Leadership team they will be working hard over the next few months to continue to develop our amazing community.
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Great to be back singing with the girls choir! 50 girls singing really does sound great. We are lucky to have a large well ventilated hall!
#CanDoMusic
Delighted to be the recipient of local charity
@c0mmunitypower
who delivered laptops to support our students during remote learning. Thank you for your support, we are hugely grateful
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Well done to Emily Murphy who won the Junior Sports Personality of the year award for
@GetBerksActive
after a great start with
@ChelseaFCW
and Jodie Smith who was nominated for the Sports Personality of the Year for her achievements in Heptathlon.
An exciting day for our students who were invited to Royal Ascot to pay tribute to Her Majesty the Queen in celebration of her Platinum Jubilee. Thank you to Miss O’Gormon for organising this amazing opportunity
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This afternoon our new Year 12 students from
@WGSWindsorGirls
and
@TWBS
had a fantastic induction event organised by the inspiring Year 13 students. A great celebration of partnership across
@WindsorLearning
Wishing all of the students
@WGSWindsorGirls
and
@twbsmusic
the very best of luck in your final performance! What an amazing week of talent and dedication, a joy to watch - enjoy every minute tonight 🧜♀️
We are proud to share our Anti-Bullying badge that will be given to all students and staff to wear daily in the next community week. Congratulations to Isobel King in Year 9 for her design.
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Incredible artwork from Lula in Year 11. This was given to a teacher who supported her throughout her time at WGS. What a lovely gesture and what a talent.
Absolutely thrilled to host last night’s
@WindsorLearning
concert! Thank you to Mr Manwaring for organising this event and to all staff and students from across the Trust - an amazing display of talent! 🎶
Welcome to our Year 9 students today. The day has started with an assembly with the Co-Headteachers outlining the school ethos of Ready, Respect, Safe
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Today is the launch of our community week to support Anti-Bullying week. Every staff member and student of our community will be given this badge today to show our support towards being kind
#kindnessisasuperpower
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Congratulations to Year 9 for participating in a great workshop for STEAM careers. Thank you
@ericsson
for delivering such an engaging and fun session. Please find more information on the event in the newsletter this Friday.
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#STEAM
Melissa in Year 9 has been supporting
#nhs
by making heart pairs. These beautiful hand made hearts go to families affected during this time, one for the patient and one for the family, such a wonderful idea
#nhsheart2heart
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We are incredibly proud to introduce our newly appointed Senior Student Leader Team including our new Head Girl Lydia and Deputy Head Girl Olatz. Exciting times ahead and congratulations to all.
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Happy
#WorldTeachersDay
!
Here’s a big shout out to all teachers across the world -- for their unmatched dedication to future generations in times of crisis and always.
Join us in saying THANK YOU! ❤
Huge celebrations at Windsor Girls’ School- we bucked the trend and national headlines and did better than 2019! Huge congratulations to our fabulous Year 11s!
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Congratulations to our Year 13 students who have been short listed for the next stage of our Head Girl process. More pictures to follow in our Newsletter tomorrow.
Well done and goodbye to our wonderful Year 11s. You celebrated in style with a retro sports day, pizza and ice cream. We are so proud of you.
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What a week it has been. Well done to all our students for adapting to the new systems in place. Please look out for our parent email this afternoon and our first newsletter of the term. Have a great weekend!