Watford Grammar School
Forthcoming Events
July  2010
M T W T F S S
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Performance Management Day

Performance Management Day (no girls in school)
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"Into the Future" - L6 interviewing day

"Into the Future" - L6 interviewing day (school closed to girls except L6)
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PA Meeting

PA Committee Meeting
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New Year 7 Induction Day

Next year’s Year 7 will be visiting the school from 12-30pm onwards; lunch will be taken earlier than normal, after period 4, when the current Year 7 girls will be dismissed (at 11.45am) to allow the new girls to use Lady’s Close House. All other years remain in school as normal.
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Sports Day

All girls will be required to make their own way to Woodside Stadium, Garston, for Sports Day. Registration will take place at the stadium at 9.00am and the girls will be dismissed after the presentations at approximately 2.30pm.
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Middle and Lower School Prize Giving

Middle School Prize Giving
Prize winners in Years 9 and 10 will receive their awards in the afternoon, starting at 2.00pm and ending around 3.15pm.
 
Lower School Prize Giving
Years 7 and 8 Prize Giving will be in the evening, starting at 7.00pm and finishing around 8.30pm.
 
 
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End of Term for Girls

For a donation of £1 to the Peace Hospice, the school’s main charity, your daughter may come to school in her own clothes on the final day of term – as long as she is dressed appropriately for school.

If the girls’ behaviour has been of an suitable standard, school will finish at 12.30pm.
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News & Bulletins

  • Results Days (update 22 July 17:18)
    AS and A2
    - Thursday 19th August 2010 Main Hall between 10.00am and 12.00. 
    GCSE - Tuesday 24th August 2010 Main Hall between 10.00am and 12.00. 
    Sixth Form Surgery - Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th August.
  • Response to Parents re: Academy Status (update 22 July 17:14)
    Click here to read our FAQs on Academy Status.
  • Yr 11 – Arrangements for GCSE Results Day – Tuesday 24th August 2010 (update 20 July 10:12)
    Click here for information.
  • Yr 11 GCSE Results Day Form (update 20 July 10:12)
    Click here for information.
  • Notice to All Year 11 Holding Place to Join the Sixth Form at Watford Grammar School for Girls (update 20 July 10:12)
    Click here for information.
  • Sixth Form UCAS Clearing (update 20 July 10:01)
    Click here for information on UCAS clearing.
  • Sixth Form - What to do when A level results are published (update 20 July 10:01)
    Click here for information.

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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.

I look forward to welcoming you.

Helen Hyde
Headmistress


 

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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.

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