Willoughby Girls High School

Willoughby Girls' High School
Willoughby Girls' High School
Location
	Willoughby, New South Wales; Australia
Coordinates	33°48′10″S 151°11′57″E
Information
Type	Public, single-sex, secondary, day school
Motto	Courage, Truth and Loyalty
Established	1934
Principal	Elizabeth Diprose[1]
Enrolment	~931 (7–12)[2]
Campus	Suburban
Colour(s)	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.[2]

Facilities and activities

Willoughby Girls High School has a variety of facilities for students, including, a playing field (covered temporarily in demountables due to current construction work), 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

Music ensembles: chamber ensemble, senior wind ensemble, junior wind ensemble, percussion ensemble, accelerate ensemble, junior choir, senior choir, jazz ensemble
Social justice committee
Secret Environmental Society
Debating
Mock trials
TheatreSports
Drama club (year 7 and 8)
Film club
The Duke of Edinburgh's Award
P&C sports: netball, basketball, (indoor and outdoor) hockey, touch footy
Chess club
Dance
French film club
Anime and Manga club
SRC

Alumni

Evonne Goolagong (born 1951), tennis player.
Jeni Mawter (born 1959), children's author.
Yvonne Kenny (born 1950), opera singer.
Jo Haylen , NSW MP for seat of Summer Hill for the Australian Labor Party, elected 2015.
Justice Ruth McColl AO, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of New South Wales
June Dally-Watkins (1927-2020) model, entrepreneur, founder of chain of deportment schools

References

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

External links

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[1] "Principal's message". Willoughby Girls High School. Retrieved 20 June 2019.

[SchoolLocator-2] "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.