WGGS BECOMES A CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR ENTERPRISE

Watford Grammar School for Girls has been awarded the ‘Young Enterprise Centre of Excellence Award’. This is in recognition of the school’s outstanding commitment to the promotion of enterprise through a range of programmes including the Company Programme, Project Business, Enterprise in Action and Learn to Earn. These activities involve girls in Year 12, Year 10 and Year 9.

Young Enterprise promotes Centre of Excellence schools, such as WGGS, to the business sector as examples of schools who are preparing their young people as future employees by developing the skills that businesses want. Centre of Excellence schools will soon feature in Young Enterprise case studies, and representatives from these schools will be invited to act as Young Enterprise Educational Ambassadors – promoting Young Enterprise and the benefits of partnering to wider audiences at business and education events.

The school runs Enterprise Days for Year 10 and Year 9, when the girls are split into teams of six to develop their decision-making, communication and inter-personal skills in a competitive environment. The Year 12 Company Programme requires the girls to form a small business and to develop a product or service. Each company is mentored by an adult business advisor who works in the local economy. The companies must prepare a report and accounts, operate a bank account and pay VAT and Corporation Tax to Young Enterprise. Each member of every Young Enterprise Company takes the OCR examination Certificate in Enterprise.

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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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