Willoughby Girls' High School
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Willoughby
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New South Wales

Australia
Coordinates33°48′10″S 151°11′57″E / 33.80278°S 151.19917°E / -33.80278; 151.19917
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TypePublic, single-sex, secondary, day school
MottoCourage, Truth and Loyalty
Established1934
PrincipalJennifer Watts[1]
Enrolment~931 (7–12)[2]
CampusSuburban
Colour(s)White and navy/royal blue   
Websitehttps://willoughbg-h.schools.nsw.gov.au

Willoughby Girls' High School (WGHS) is a public, secondary, day school for girls, located in Willoughby, a lower North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Established in 1934, Willoughby Girls' High currently enrols around a thousand students from Years 7 to 12, and is the only comprehensive government girls' school situated on the lower north shore of Sydney.[2]

Facilities and activities

Willoughby Girls High School has a variety of facilities for students, including, a playing field, library, senior study rooms, canteen, science labs, computer labs, design and technology and textile rooms, music studio, art rooms, and landscaped courtyards. The school has also been providing extension classes for the last nine years in Maths, English and Science for those girls with higher marks, who are selected to this class in year 7 through a series of tests, and every subsequent year through their course marks .[3] The school also puts on a musical every 2 years.

Extra curricular activities

Alumni

See also

References

  1. ^ "Principal's message". Willoughby Girls High School. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Willoughby Girls High School". School Locator. New South Wales Public Schools. Retrieved 15 June 2008.
  3. ^ Noonan, Gerard (25 July 2005). "Selective classes in a regular school? Clever idea". National. Sydney, NSW: Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 June 2008.


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