Following lengthy negotiations with Merseytravel,  the school is pleased to announce that a new bus route will commence in September 2013. This new route (numbered 662) will follow a similar route to the 653 service, however after calling at Heswall Bus Station it will then travel via The Mount, Dee View, Thurstaston Road, Village Road, Gayton Road, Baskervyle Road, Dawstone Road, and Well Lane before rejoining the 653 route at Gayton roundabout. The route will be reversed for the afternoon journey.This means that the school will have a dedicated school service serving Lower Heswall and Gayton.

To allow this to happen the 08:00 653 departure from Thingwall corner will leave at 07:56 and be renumbered 662. The afternoon 653 bus that leaves school at 15:58 will become the 662. The school is grateful that so many parents contacted Merseytravel to ask for this change and we hope that girls from Lower Heswall and Gayton will benefit.

See below for full timetables of the journeys.

662 am

662 pm

Financial support is available to sixth form students. Please see the school’s website page for full details.

On 8 May pupils from local primaries came here to celebrate their progress in reading, helped in this process by our Year 13 girls. The Reading Recovery programme has been running since 2004 and has seen many of our local pupils working together with our girls. This has seen some of them increase their reading age by up to three years as the result of the hard work of our girls in a few months.

Read the school’s Teaching and Learning log to keep abreast of what we are investigating here.

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After receiving funding from the UK Space Agency’s Space for All scheme, the Wirral Grammar School for Girls Astronomy Club is now in full flow. The club meets every Wednesday night after school from 3.45 – 5.00 pm to learn more about the Universe which surrounds us.

The first task the club took on was to make models of the Sun and the planets in our solar system. The girls worked very hard on their models, they also produced accompanying posters and presented their designs to the rest of the club.

Since then the girls have had a workshop on using ‘Stellarium’, some useful Astronomy software for observing and have also studied the life cycle of a star.

The funding has also paid for a new school telescope which we can’t wait to start using!

Wirral Girls’ Swing Band were hosted by the President of The Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, Mrs Andrea Spyropoulos.

The event was a fringe event, tea party to celebrate the contribution of student nurses and health care assistants to the profession of nursing and was attended over the course of 2 hours by about 200 hundred delegates to the main RCN Congress held in the Echo Arena.

RCN Congress attracts between 6,000 to 10,000 delegates per year  made up from nurses across the UK and international delegates and lasts for 5 days. The RCN is the largest professional nursing association and Trades Union for nurses in the World and has over 410,000 members. The RCN represents nurses and nursing, promotes excellence in nursing practice and shapes health policies.

The girls’ performance was au usual outstanding and many thanks to all involved in a great event.

This is an on-line national competition open to Y9 and 10 students. The overall objective of the competition is to “encourage an interest in biology beyond the school curriculum and stimulate curiosity in the natural world”. The
questions posed covered a variety of topics based on everyday biology and the world around us e.g. identification of British Wildlife, identifying human bones and genetic problems.

Over 31,000 students entered this national competition in March 2013. A total of 89 students were entered from WGSG and 82 students completed both papers. These included 55 Year 9 pupils representing both top sets and 27
Year 10 pupils from the top separate science class.

ANALYSIS

There are 5 categories of award; gold, silver, bronze, highly commended and commended. The following is a breakdown of WGSG results.

Gold awards – 10
Year 9s – Alicia Kendall, Olivia McGowan, Keeva O’Kane, Elizabeth Crawford
Year 10s – Catherine Ashworth, Nithya Eswar Vee , Hannah Mills, Georgia Semple, Helen Williams, Annie Liu

Silver awards – 7
Year 9s – Laura Avison, Mairead Stewart
Year 10s – Lizzie Collins, Rebecka Forbes, Millie McIvor, Sophie Tarver, Kate Compton

Bronze awards – 9
Year 9s – Morgane Anderson, Sophie Holloway
Year 10s – Victoria Coughlin, Charlotte Hardwick, Isabel Higgins, Ellie Langshaw, Elizabeth McGowan, Anastasia Shafran, Alice Smith.

A further 21 girls were Highly commended and 27 more were Commended.

Overall:

• 91% of the students entered received an award
• 32% of the students entered received a gold, silver or bronze award
• Our top scoring student was Keeva O’Kane (Year 9)who scored 108/120

Overall the competition proved to be a resounding success and an opportunity for girls to demonstrate their knowledge beyond the curriculum. Entry into this competition was made possible by the ICT support offered by Mr Wright.

Emma Chadwick