Windsor Girls’ School

8 July 2016

Adobe Girls in Tech and Theresa May

On 1 July 35 Year 10 students visited Adobe’s offices in Maidenhead to spend the day focusing on careers in technology. The event had been planned over the last few months and allowed students to have a tour of the state of the art premises where they recycle 97% of all waste produced and talks from key personnel from Adobe. The day was designed to be very interactive and fun with an aim of dispelling myths associated with working in the technology industry. When the initial idea was proposed Adobe had invited local MP Theresa May to come along. However, given the recent political news and the fact that she had announced her candidacy for Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister the day before, we suspected that she would be too busy to attend. We were therefore delighted that she took time to meet with the students and make an inspiring speech about opportunities for women in industry. All in all it was a great day and one students and staff will certainly remember it.

Dear Parents and Carers As you will have seen from the last few editions of the newsletter, this final term is extremely busy with many events and activities taking place. It is also typically the term when we look ahead to the next academic year and plan for the new students joining us in September. On Tuesday evening we welcomed the parents of Year 8 parents whose daughters will be starting Windsor Girls’ School in September. The school hall was full and it was really good to meet so many new faces and see some familiar ones with daughters already in the school. Two current Year 9s, Poppy Pope and Aliya Pritchard-Casey spoke during the evening and they should be very proud of themselves. The Year 11 Prom was also held on Tuesday evening and it was a wonderful event at the Legoland Hotel. The students looked very glamorous in their dresses and many arrived in style. It was a perfect end to their examinations and they can now enjoy the summer before returning to their studies in September. You will have seen that we have been working with a number of local businesses over the last year and we are pleased to have made key links with both Centrica and Adobe amongst others. Both companies have been involved in delivering activities for our students which have allowed the students to hear about real life situations and visit business premises. The thirty Year 10 students who visited Abobe in Maidenhead last Friday also had the additional excitement of seeing Theresa May who made an appearance to talk to the them about getting more girls involved in the technology industry. This week has also been particularly exciting because we have been performing our school musical production of Peter Pan to sell out audiences. The large cast and crew is made up of students from Windsor Girls’ School and Windsor Learning Partnership. Music and performance has been a real strength of the school this year, from Sweeney Todd, music concerts, GCSE and A level examination pieces to the current show, we are fortunate to be able to give the students so many opportunities. Now we look forward to Activities week next week where all our remaining year groups will be involved in enrichment activities which will be a positive way to end the year. Mrs Labrum

On 24 June 35 Year 10 students had the opportunity to attend the Festival of Education at Wellington College. The event is sponsored by the Daily Telegraph newspaper and was created to give students a range of information about possible careers and educational choices. During the day students were encouraged to get involved and try as many things as possible. These included dissecting a full pig, scuba diving and listening to talks. As you will see from the article in Saturday’s Telegraph, Isobel Jackson-Brench was quoted discussing her removing a pig’s eyeball. It was certainly not for the faint hearted.

Festival of Education

Year Information

Sixth Form

Year 12 will be undertaking their Enrichment Week from Wednesday 13 July to Friday 15 July. This includes visiting speakers and a visit to Reading University. Year 13 results will be available on Thursday 18 August at 9.00am in the school hall. However, students who have applied to university this year will be able to access their university application information on UCAS from the early hours of Thursday morning. Students are advised to have their login details ready and have access to a telephone on that morning so they are able to make contact with the relevant university departments. Staff will be in school on that morning to support students.

District Sports takes place on Tuesday 12 July. We wish all competitors well. On Tuesday 19 July we will be taking part in house competitions and holding celebration assemblies as well as learning the outcome of the overall house competition this year. Term 6 ends on Tuesday 19 July at 1.00pm. Year 9 Year 9 Activities week begins on Wednesday 13 July and runs until Monday 18 July. Students are reminded that they need to bring a packed lunch and to wear appropriate clothing for their activities each day. We hope that the weather will be good so students are advised to bring plenty of water, sun cream and a sun hat. Normal school rules apply when offsite taking part in activities. Year 10 Ten Year 10 students will be visiting Mars as part of careers focus on Monday 11 July.

The Year 10 Work Ready Conference begins on Thursday 14 July and runs until Monday 18 July. Students are asked to dress in their own smart clothes, as they would if they were going to work. We will be welcoming employers from over 50 companies who will be sharing their experiences and leading activities for the students. On Monday 18 July students will be working in groups on a project which will see the winning group receive an exciting prize. Last year’s group were given a VIP afternoon tea experience at the Hilton Hotel at Heathrow Terminal 5. Year 11 Year 11 results will be available on Thursday 25 August at 9.00am in the school hall. Any results which are not collected by 12.00pm will be posted to students at their home address. Staff will be in school on that morning to support students. If there are any outstanding items to return to school please could they be brought in before the summer holidays. If you have not collected your prize, please contact the school office.

PRIZE EVENING

Thursday 28 June 2016

Subject Prizes

Students have been awarded individual subject prizes by their teachers for outstanding achievement

Prizes for English

Year 9 Anna Foskett

Year 10 Isabelle Jackson-Brench

Year 11 Mercedes Mayes

Year 12 Lauren Basra

Prizes for Mathematics

Year 9 Lydia Jeremiah

Year 10 Isabelle Jackson-Brench

Year 11 Mercedes Mayes

Year 12 Laura Lane

Prizes for Science

Year 9 Amy Game

Prizes for Biology

Year 10 Hannah Ramsay

Year 11 Meg Ormond

Year 12 Naomi Acland

Year 13 Elizabeth Scammell

Prizes for Chemistry

Year 10 Sanaa Riaz

Year 11 Amber Frobisher

Physics

Year 10 Syeda Bukhari

Year 11 Rebecca Pope

Year 13 Rachel Kirby

Prizes for History

Year 9 Mina Lukacsi

Year 10 Amann Baig

Year 11 Shivon Dean

Year 13 Eloise Clarkson

Prizes for Geography

Year 9 Chloe Hobbs

Year 10 Izabella Cheema

Year 11 Elsa McCarthy

Year 13 Elizabeth Scammell

Prizes for French

Year 9 Guilia Moretti

Year 10 Grace Asquith-Evans

Year 11 Breeha Mazhar

Year 12 Chloe Fitzgerald

Year 13 Emma Broad

Prizes for German

Year 9 Sadie Pearson

Year 10 Hetty Brake

Year 11 Sophie Stevenson

Year 12 Charlotte Beattie

Year 13 Rosanna Fletcher

Prizes for Spanish

Year 9 Ella Healey

Year 10 Romessa Azariah

Year 11 Nansi Hidrej

Year 12 Ella Lauder

Prizes for Art Textiles

Year 11 Eden Ritchie

Year 12 Olivia Brooker

Prizes for Photography

Year 12 Katya Van Wezel

Year 13 Celine O’Brien

Prizes for Music

Year 9 Amy Burridge

Year 10 Hannah Tickle

Year 11 Elsa Llewelyn

Year 12 Janina

Von Enckevort

Prizes for Art

Year 9 Imogen Waller

Year 10 Abby Hattey

Year 11 Georgia Pettet

Year 13 Megan Jacob

Prizes for BTEC Fashion

Year 10 Chloe Acland

Prizes for Graphics

Year 9 Shelley Jones

Year 10 Scarlet Harris

Year 11 Isabelle Wroth

Prizes for Product Design

Year 9 Ruby Appleton

Year 12 Amy Jefferies

Year 13 Laura Marshall

Catering

Year 10 Rebecca O’Malley

Year 11 Bethan Swain

Prizes for Ethics

Year 9 Allegra Whybrow

Year 10 Iona MacRobert

Year 11 Paige O’Riordan

Year 12 Abbie Shepheard

Year 13 Laura Das

Prizes for Child Development

Year 11 Tanisha Ahmed

Prizes for Food Technology

Year 9 Lauren Broad

Prizes for Level 3 Food Science and Nutrition

Year 11 Kirsty Avis

Year 12 Shaimaa Filali

Prizes for Business Studies

Year 10 Aaminah Saleem

Year 11 Eve Wale

Year 12 Esme Bonney

Year 13 Gina Riggs

Prizes for BTEC Business Studies

Year 12 Isabelle Wensley

Year 13 Alice Mealing

Prizes for VCERT Business Studies

Year 10 Eloise Egleton

Year 11 Jade Lewis

Prizes for Economics

Year 13 Anaya Sachdev

Prizes for ICT

Year 9 Phillipa Gibson

Year 10 Scarlett Mills-Dunbar

Year 11 Jemima Walsh

Prizes for Travel and Tourism

Year 12 Ella Lauder

Year 13 Katie Eyre

Prizes for Drama

Year 9 Grace Pearson-Hall

Year 10 Ellie Louise Lawrance

Year 12 Emilia Young

Year 13 Phoebe

Roberts-Shephard

Prizes for Performing Arts

Year 10 Trishna Jabble

Year 11 Meg Carmichael

Year 12 Ellie Haynes

Prizes for Core Physical Education

Year 9 Molly Kemp

Year 10 Freya Angood

Year 11 Jasmin Gurung

Prizes for GCSE Physical Education

Year 11 Paige Laidler

Prizes for Physical Education

Year 12 Bethany Boucher

Year 13 Georgia Cook

Prizes for Law

Year 12 Milly Calder

Prizes for Media

Year 12 Moon Yanez Alevropoulos

Year 13 Anaya Sachdev

Prizes for Psychology

Year 12 Leanne Knight

Year 13 Katherine Delaney

Prizes for Sociology

Year 12 Euginie Chanson

Year 13 Celeste Denyer

Year Leader Awards

Prizes for Academic Achievement and Effort and Progress

Naomi Acland

Kiran Bagri

Ella Blake

Amy Hattey

Year 10

Romessa Azariah

Amann Baig

Lucy Clancy

Olivia Cozens

Evie Gibbard

Trishna Jabble

Ellen Pickering

Una Qio

Casey Speller

Hannah Tickle

Oliwia Wnuk

Year 12

Year 11

Zahra Bhatti

Caitlyn Bush

Chesnee Edwards-Drew

Mollie Egleton

Coleen Fortune

Brooke Game

Caterina Magenes

Victoria Mills

Izzy Opila

Tori Sharples

Ella Whitehouse

Fiona Hearn

Emily Hopkins

Hooria Khan

Isobel McClenn

Chloe Rank

Holly Shepheard

Sarah Turner

Year 9

Larissa Bowyer

Cherie Chanson

Ellen Donaldson

Katie Gardner

Rebecca Howard

Jasmine Kochhar

Georgia Parnell

Aliya Prichard-Casey

Daisy Schotting-Robinson

Lily Schotting-Robinson

Katie Snooks

Sarah Valentine

Special Awards

Margaret Curtis Prize for Service to the LRC Niastra Parsons

The Rotary Club of Windsor and Eton Jessica Lee

The Berkshire Freemasons Schools Charity Award

Sarina Saini, Urte Bagdonaite, Leah Wheatley, Alice Doran, Georgia Meakes, Olivia Brooker, Danielle Franklin, Chloe Fitzgerald, Holly Shepheard, Abblie Shepheard, Samantha Reynolds, Lucy

Gyngell, Isobelle Wensley, Esme Bonney and Kiran Bagri

Tester Prize for Performing Arts Phoebe Pearson-Hall

Sports Star of the Year India Sale

The Barber Cup for Music and the Year 11 Prize for Drama Amy Germain

Silver Larynx Award Katie Hopkins

The Brownscombe Cup for Mathematics Fizzah Choudhry

The Chappell Prize for Exceptional Progress Nansi Hidrej

The Aspire, Advance and Achieve Cup Bethany Thompson

The Shawcross Cup for Leadership Services

to the School Katie Bartoletti

Emma Broad

Juliette Bastable

Rosanna Armitage

Hannah Atkinson

Year 13

Molly Ballantyne-Clarke

Matilda Compton-Stewart

Connie Feyerherm

Caitlin Holgate

Yasmin Matthews

Alexandra Middleton

Charlie Mills

Devon Monaghan

Manjot Sihra

The Enga Cup for Food Technology Breeha Mazhar

The Muirie Cup for Excellence in Languages Yaiza Zarza-Franklin

Most Outstanding Historian Sophie Sarney

Most Outstanding in Geography Yasmin Talha

Most Outstanding Mathematician Katie Holmes

Most Outstanding Scientist Sophie Mae-Smith

Most Outstanding in English Celeste Denyer

The Rotary Club of Windsor St. George for

Contributions to Musical Theatre Celeste Denyer

Art for All Prize Rukayyah Yusuf

Headteacher’s Prize Rukayyah Yusuf