Windsor Girls’ School

26 June 2015

The four Windsor Castle Ambassadors and Mrs Saunders were invited to be guests of

the Governor of Windsor Castle at this year’s Garter Day celebrations. This allowed

them to watch the procession of the Knights of the Garter and view the Royal family at

close quarters from the Governor’s residence and the Moat Garden. They also had

lunch and afternoon tea with the Governor and his family after the ceremony. It was a

wonderful day and one which they will not forget in a hurry.

Garter Day 15 June 2015

Year Information

Sixth Form

Six girls were short-listed and went through a gruelling interview process to become the school's new Head Girl.

Katie Bartoletti was elected as Head Girl and Devon Monaghan as Deputy Head Girl. Senior Student Leaders are Matilda Compton-Stewart, Emily Hockin, Elizabeth Scammell and Sophie-Mae Smith.

The Student Leaders are Alisha Abdul Rahim, Hannah Atkinson, Juliet Bastable, Emma Broad, Isabelle Charters, Laura Das, Celeste Denyer, Niamh Eastabrook, Olivia Gale, Sally Harman, Caitlin Holgate, Katie Holmes, Lauren Lovett and Charlie Mills. Well done to all.

Mrs Hundal will be taking a group of Year 12 students to visit the Royal Society as part of their A level Biology course on Friday 3 July.

Year 12 Law and Philosophy and Ethics students will be visiting the Old Bailey in London with Mrs Carron and Mrs Jenkins on Thursday 2 July. This is a very special opportunity and the students will have rare access to private areas of the court. Students are reminded to ‘travel light’ as they are not allowed to take bags into the court room. They can leave non-valuables in a secure area.

Our new Head Girl, Katie Bartoletti will be rowing at the Royal Henley Regatta this weekend with her quad, we wish the team well.

There are a number of activities and events taking place over the next few weeks.

We look forward to welcoming Year 8 students who are joining us in September when they visit school on Friday 3 July. New parents will also be visiting to learn about the coming year on 30 June at 6.30pm in the Hall.

The school play ‘No Place Like Home’ is next week. There are performances on Wednesday 1 July and Thursday 2 July. There are still a few tickets remaining, please contact Mrs Stafford-Allen via office@windsorgirls.net to secure your seats.

Sports Day will be 9 July and takes place at Thames Valley Athletics Track.

Year 9

Year 9 will be watching a performance based on the issues of internet safety and child sexual exploitation. This is a play which has been performed across all of the Royal Borough schools and aims to highlight a number of growing issues in society.

Year 10

Students who are members of the ‘Alice’ Group will be undertaking a walking tour of Windsor with Mr Haines and Mr Tilbury on Friday 3 July. This will be an opportunity for girls to learn more about the history, architecture and famous people who have lived in the town.

Year 10 examination results will be coming home next week.

Year 11

The Year 11 Prom takes place at the Legoland Hotel on Tuesday 30 June at 7.00pm. This is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the end of the GCSE examinations as a year group.

Drama Department News

The Windsor Girls' School Drama Department is proud to present "There's No Place Like Home". This musical is based on the story of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The show is being performed on two evenings: Wednesday 1 July and Thursday 2 July at 7:30pm.

Tickets are priced at £6 for Students and Concessions and £8 for Adults. Tickets will be available from the cashier at Break 1 or by contacting Mrs Stafford-Allen via office@windsorgirls.net.

We look forward to seeing you join Dorothy and her friends on their journey down the yellow brick road to Oz!

Rounders News On Tuesday, our Year 9 team competed

in a rounders match against Holyport

School in an afternoon of action packed

sport at Windsor Girls’ School.

Though the team has only recently

formed, our students played superbly!

Storm Barnes led the way as the bowler;

forming a great partnership with Kay Brett

as backstop, and Joanna Kasaj and Tayla

Lawrence on first and second base.

The team demonstrated effective fielding strategies and were successful at scoring

many fielding rounders due to fast reaction times, accuracy of throws and effective

communication which saw many of Holyport being stumped out . Meg Bullock played

deep fielder and was impressive with some great long barriers and accurate throws.

Gabrielle McCarron, Emily Gardiner, Emily Swain, Alisha Cole and Monica Sangha

were all instrumental in a great whole team performance; it was a pleasure to watch.

Well done to all players.

2015

Tennis Team

News

Year 10 Meg Ormond and Beck Pope Pair 1 Eleanor Judd and Hannah Hester Pair 2 Caitlyn Bush and Georgia Boundy Pair 3 Sophia Collinson and Amber Frobisher Pair 4 (Zenab Mahmood replaced Amber after she had left) Year 9 Lauren Tiplady and Niamh Young Pair 5 Gemma Quigley and Rosie Fowler Pair 6 Reserves and Scorers Shivania Bhachu and Jade Greenwood Darcy Aigle – Boucher and Beatrix Leedom Windsor Girls’ School had their first tennis match of the season against Holyport College this week. The students played to the rules of Easy Tennis resulting in an 8 - 7 victory in matches and 3 draws. The overall points were Windsor 183 and Holyport 173. Windsor fought fiercely and deserved their overall win. The players finished off the afternoon by enjoying a bowl of strawberries.

On 19 June, eleven Year 12 students attended

the Festival of Education at Wellington College.

The event was aimed at students and teachers

and focused on a wide range of different

educational themes. Students enjoyed the

hands-on activities and the opportunity to speak

to experts in their field about future choices and

university courses. The festival certainly

generated discussion and provided our students

with food for thought. We would like to thank

Adele Kilby for her support in organising this trip.

Festival of Education Wellington

LRC

News

New Non-Fiction Books Now Available in the LRC!

Did you know…...although the River Amazon is only the world’s second longest river, it is by far the largest by volume. It contains 20% of all the world’s river water! Find out more facts like this in Countries – one of the World in Infographics series.

Improve your understanding of Shakespeare’s language and the world he lived in. The Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary is much more than a dictionary – come and have a look at the copy in the Library!

And for all Scientists out there…...an old favourite! Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions is a fascinating array of questions and answers from the readers of

New Scientist.

PRIZE EVENING

Wednesday 24 June 2015

Subject Prizes

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

Prizes for English

Year 9 Aoibheann Gibbard

Year 10 Mercedes Mayes

Year 11 Olive Howland-Milne

Year 12 Celeste Denyer

Year 13 Francesca Foley

Prizes for Mathematics

Year 9 Isabelle Jackson-Brench

Year 10 Dana Stevens

Year 11 Fiza Asif

Year 12 Rachel Kirby

Year 13 Helen White

Further Mathematics

Year 12 Emma Broad

Year 13 Rebecca Masters

Prizes for Science

Science

Year 9 Maha Siddiqui

Biology

Year 10 Nansi Hidrej

Year 11 Amy Hattey

Year 12 Eloise Clarkson

Year 13 Rosie Burridge

Chemistry

Year 10 Renu Chauhan

Year 11 Anjali Dhunna

Year 12 Sophie-Mae Smith

Year 13 Samantha Barber

Physics

Year 10 Hannah Jones

Year 11 Charlotte Beattie

Year 12 Alexandra Brown

Year 13 Helen White

Prizes for Geography

Year 9 Hannah Tickle

Year 10 Neve Hamilton

Year 11 Laura Lane

Year 12 Matilda Compton-Stewart

Year 13 Lauren Burton

Prizes for History

Year 9 Mary Deakes

Year 10 Fiona Kovalerova

Year 11 Fiona Hearn

Year 12 Sasha Theobalds

Year 13 Jessica Reid

Prizes for Modern Foreign Languages

French

Year 9 Iona MacRobert

Year 10 Megan Ormond

Year 11 Orla De Wolf

Year 12 Emma Broad

Year 13 Hannah Davies

German

Year 9 Aaminah Saleem

Year 10 Amber Frobisher

Year 11 Chloe Fitzgerald

Year 12 Katie Holmes

Spanish

Year 9 Nicole Sumalde

Year 10 Victoria Basheva

Year 11 Sanjana Pattar

Prizes for Philosophy and Ethics

Year 9 Mia Perry

Year 10 Georgia Pettet

Year 11 Holly Shepheard

Year 12 Laura Das

Year 13 Olivia Spindlow

Prizes for Art

Year 9 Natalia Bajer

Year 10 Sophie Holmes

Year 11 Matilda Simmonds

Year 12 Sally Harman

Year 13 Bryony Usher

Prizes for Photography

Year 12 Fern Morrey

Prizes for Music

Year 9 Evie Fawcett

Year 10 Elsa Llewelyn

Year 11 Natasha Phillips

Year 12 Celeste Denyer

Year 13 Dana Black

Fashion and Clothing

Year 11 Sophie Sarney

Graphics

Year 10 Noor Khensous

Year 11 Sophie Brudenall

Product Design

Year 9 Chloe Acland

Year 12 Alexandra Brown

Year 13 Tarn Jones

Product Design Textiles

Year 13 Alexandra Middleton

Food Technology

Year 9 Nicel Parsons

Catering

Year 10 Breeha Mazhar

Year 11 Samantha Reynolds

Child Development

Year 10 Shivon Dean

Year 11 Leanne Knight

GCSE BusinessStudies

Year 10 Eve Wale

Year 11 Yasmin Talha

A Level Business Studies

Year 12 Caitlin Holgate

Year 13 Imogen Irwin

BTEC Business Studies

Year 11 Isobel Gilbert

Year 12 Millicent Weller

Year 13 Nikita Lewis

VCERT Business Studies

Year 10 Amber Hazell

Economics

Year 12 Anaya Sachdev

Year 13 Georgia McGlasson

ICT

Year 9 Cerys Roe

Year 10 Rosie Benneyworth

Year 11 Lucy Barclay

Year 13 Ria Nehra

Travel and Tourism

Year 12 Katie Eyre

Year 13 Sarah Denzel

Drama

Year 9 Martha Allerton

Year 10 Brooke Game

Year 11 Rebecca Whalley

Year 12 Phoebe Pearson-Hall

Year 13 Caroline Basra

Performing Arts

Year 10 Jordan Jones

Year 13 Sarah Britton

Physical Education

Year 10 Charlotte Davies

Year 11 Ellie Roe

Year 12 Georgia Cook

Year 13 Natalie Hatchard

Year 9 Core Amy Donaldson

Year 10 Core Kayla Barreto

Year 11 Core Heather Frobisher

Law

Year 12 Imogen Kay

Year 13 Zoobia Abbasi

Media

Year 12 Alice Mealing

Year 13 Roopie Virdee

Psychology

Year 12 Megan Jacob

Year 13 Molly Gilbert

Sociology

Year 12 Hannah Atkinson

Year 13 Hannah Peachey

Year 9

Academic Achievement

Clementine Oliver

Freya Angood

Mia Perry

Grace Asquith-Evans

Nina Smith

Aoibheann Gibbard

Alexandra Parenti

Evie Fawcett

Gabrielle McCarron

Tayla Lawrence

Moya Tackney

Olivia Cozens

Maia Perkins

Aroosa Hussain

Ellen Pickering

Emma Brocklehurst

Premleen Virdi

Effort and Progress

Niamh Lumb

Scarlet Harris

Daisy Halfacre-Stuart

Emily Howse

Isabelle Walters

Year 10

Academic Achievement

Paige O’Riordan

Lauryn Gill

Tanisha Ahmed

Bethany Thompson

Elsa McCarthy

Izabela Opila

Emma Reid

Jemima Walsh

Madison Beale

Georgia Boundy

Rebecca Pope

Rose Lombardo

Jaanki Mistry

Effort and Progress

Eleanor Judd

Tyler Russell

Jessica Lee

Year Leader Awards

Prizes for Academic Achievement and Effort and Progress

Year 11

Academic Achievement

Faye Macaree

Laura Peachey

Amna Yackub

Marta Garcia

Emilia Young

Ayodimeji Abiola

Kimberley White

Fiza Asif

Georgia Donnison

Danielle Franklin

Abigayle Holt

Nia Hannon

Naomi Acland

Natalie Gilmour

Emily Hopkins

Ella Blake

Olivia Brooker

Emma Lamden-Esteban

Isabel McClenn

Kate Fogarty

Megan Gilmore

Effort and Progress

Rachel Wallace

Rebecca Khan

Bethany Howell

Nicole Horn

Mary Thorpe

Sixth Form Prizes for Academic Excellence in

A Level Studies

Laura Marshall

Gina Riggs

Alice Reeves

Mahima Bermi

Ellie Welch

Rachel Johnson

Phoebe Crewe

Devon Monaghan

Elif Ozturk

Elizabeth Scammell

Constance Feyerherm

Katie Bartoletti

Isabelle Charters

Olivia Clarke

Thehreem Farooq

Zoe Harper

Alisha Abdul Rahim

Georgina Evans

Sixth Form Prizes for Effort and Commitment in

A Level Studies

Olivia Gale

Molly Ballantyne-Clark

Eleanor O’Donnell

Sally Harman

Juliet Bastable

Kayley Flack

Niastra Parsons

Lauren Lovett

Emily Hilliar

Special Awards

The Northover Cup for Service to the Community Phoebe Peace

Margaret Curtis Prize for Service to the LRC Samantha Barber

The Rotary Club of Windsor and Eton Amy Wilson

The Rotary Club of Windsor St. George for Contributions to Musical Theatre

Isobel Tickle, Emily Hopkins, Amy Germain and Lucy Pollard

The Berkshire Freemasons Schools Charity Award - STEM Challenge winners

Maha Siddiqui, Iona MacRobert, Jess Parker, Maia Perkins and Mary Deakes

Art for All Prize Olivia Clarke

Tester Prize for Performing Arts Lucy George

Sports Star of the Year Amber Frobisher

Sarah Denzel

Kirsty Avis

Malini Bermi

Hannah Grace

Sarah Hayward

Ria Nehra

Lydia Quinn

Molly Broad

Mankiran Chana

Ramanpreet Kaur

Dana Black

Amber Jeffrey

The Barber Cup for Music Olivia Beer

Silver Larynx Award Bethany Thompson

The Brownscombe Cup for Mathematics Fatma Abdalla

Christine Key Cup for Junior Poetry Darcy Aigle-Boucher

The Chappell Prize for Exceptional Progress Nansi Hidrej

The Aspire, Advance and Achieve Cup Laura Das

The Shawcross Cup for Leadership Services to the School Francesca Foley

The Enga Cup for Food Technology Kirsty Avis

The Muirie Cup for Excellence in Languages Hannah Davies

Most Outstanding Historian Lauren Basra

Most Outstanding in English Ellie Welch

Most Outstanding in Geography Holly Wiles

Most Outstanding Mathematician Rebecca Masters

Most Outstanding Scientist Helen White

Headteacher’s Prize Helen White

Headteacher’s Prize Phoebe Pearson-Hall

Headteacher’s Prize Lucy George