Willoughby Girls High School Explained

Willoughby Girls' High School
Motto:Courage, Truth and Loyalty
Established:1934
Type:Public, single-sex, secondary, day school
Principal:Adrienne Scalese
City:Willoughby
State:New South Wales
Coordinates:-33.8028°N 151.1992°W
Campus:Suburban
Enrolment:~931 (7 - 12)[1]
Colours:White and navy/royal blue
Website:https://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.[1]

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 .[2] The school also puts on a musical every 2 years.

Extra curricular activities

Alumni

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Willoughby Girls High School . 2008-06-15 . School Locator . New South Wales Public Schools.
  2. News: Gerard . Noonan . Selective classes in a regular school? Clever idea. National. Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, NSW. 2005-07-25. 2008-06-15.