QUIZ NIGHT IS NEARLY HERE!(update 30th April 16:30)
Join us on Saturday 12th May for a fun filled evening and help us raise money for OUR school. If you have not booked your tickets to this event you still have time. We are adding extra tables every day! Please click here for more details and we look forward to seeing you there.
POLAND TRIP OCTOBER 2012 (update 17th Mar 11:20)
Head Mistress, Helen Hyde and Religious Teacher, Jenny Smith, invite you to join them on the Adult Holocaust Study trip to Poland during October 2012 half term. Please click here for more details.
If you would like to join them, please print out the booking form and return it with your deposit.
ADULT EVENING CLASSES STARTING THE WEEK OF April 23, 2012 (update 28th Mar)
Classes are from 7-9pm on Monday or Wednesday evenings and run for 10 weeks.
There are currently spaces in the following classes:
Silver Jewellery Making; beginners to advance – Monday evenings
Life Sculpture; beginners to advance – Wednesday Evenings
Painting and Drawing; beginners to advance - Wednesday Evenings
Textiles; beginners to advance - Monday Evenings
For fees, dates and registration form, please contact Holly Dalfen on 01923 447658
Email - Website - www.wggs-artscollege.ik.org
Dear Parents, Girls and Visitors,
I am delighted that you are interested in our school. I hope that you will enjoy visiting our website; it will show you some of the reasons why Watford Grammar School for Girls is such a successful school and well known nationally for its academic standards.
As the Head, I am particularly conscious of my responsibility for maintaining the best of the traditional values of this school, while offering a forward-looking education to equip girls for life in the twenty-first century.
Our motto is Sperate Parati -Go forward with preparation. With the motto in mind, I aim to ensure that each girl:
Is encouraged to achieve excellence in all areas of the curriculum;
Achieves a sense of dignity, personal responsibility and self esteem;
Learns to work as part of a team;
Has an open mind and the ability to make and understand moral judgements;
Receives a balanced and broad education and is equipped with those skills necessary to undertake a lifetime of learning.
I see it as part of my function to provide an ordered working environment in which the highest standards of work and behaviour are expected of all girls, an environment where a community based on mutual respect, tolerance, trust and understanding is able to flourish. With my colleagues I aim to provide a curriculum which challenges the girls and promotes their academic and social development.
In a large school the whole community - pupils, staff, parents and Governors - should be aware of what the school is trying to achieve and how that achievement is being planned and organised. Success in achieving our aims and objectives is dependent on the spirit of understanding shared by all involved in the life and work of the school. We are a developing school, continually trying to improve the quality of education we provide.
Thank you for your help and support over the past year. WGGS
Lady’s Close House
Having looked carefully at the capital development needs of the school and the level of funding currently available to us, we now intend to focus our energy on restoring Lady's Close House.
This is the most historic building on the school site and is central to every girl's development at WGGS. Lady's Close is the Y7 base, where pupils have their own space and Form Rooms. The girls have special affection for the building because it represents the start of their careers at WGGS. The grand old house is also the home of the English Department.
The building is well over 100 years old and is in dire need of modernisation and refurbishment. We have ambitious plans to recapture the splendour and elegance of its history, while incorporating the technology and physical improvements that will bring Lady's Close House into the 21st century in appropriate WGGS style.
Fuller Life Fitness
Members of the WGGS school can enjoy generous membership discounts. View details...
