Westside School or simply Westside is a

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in the

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. The school opened in 1982, and was built in order to provide education to the students of the former Girls' Comprehensive School, previously spread over three different sites, and itself an amalgamation of four girls' schools: Loreto High School, St. Joseph's Secondary School, St. Margaret's School, and St. David's Commercial School. It was formerly only for girls, but as of 2021 is coeducational.

Subjects offered

Westside offers a range of subjects at different levels. These are at

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(years 7, 8 and 9),

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(years 10 and 11) and

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(years 12 and 13). Students do their

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(GCSE) courses during Key Stage 4 and those who wish to further their studies from there, do their

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s during sixth form. Italicized subjects indicate compulsory subjects.

Key Stage 3

Art and design A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product, or process. The verb ''to design'' ...

Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...

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* French *

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Science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

*Spanish *

Technology Technology is the application of knowledge to reach practical goals in a specifiable and reproducible way. The word ''technology'' may also mean the product of such an endeavor. The use of technology is widely prevalent in medicine, science, ...

*Woodwork and home economics are also included

Key Stage 4

*Art and design *Art and design (Textile) *

Business studies Business studies, often simply called business, is a field of study that deals with the principles of business, management, and economics. It combines elements of accountancy, finance, marketing, organizational studies, human resource management, a ...

Child development Child development involves the Human development (biology), biological, developmental psychology, psychological and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the conclusion of adolescence. Childhood is divided into 3 stages o ...

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(non-GCSE) *

Commercial studies Commercial may refer to: * a dose of advertising conveyed through media (such as - for example - radio or television) ** Radio advertisement ** Television advertisement * (adjective for:) commerce, a system of voluntary exchange of products and s ...

(non-GCSE) *

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

*''English language'' *

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Food and nutrition Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism uses food to support its life. It provides organisms with nutrients, which can be metabolized to create energy and chemical structures. Failure to obtain sufficient ...

*French *Geography *History *

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(non-GCSE) *Information and communication technology *''Mathematics'' *Music *Personal, Social and Health Education (non GCSE) *Physical Education *Religious Studies *''Spanish'' *Combined science (formerly known as dual science) *Triple Science (added content to dual science)

Sixth form

*Art and design *

Biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary i ...

*Business studies *

Chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

*Economics *English literature *French *Geography *History *

History of art The history of art focuses on objects made by humans for any number of spiritual, narrative, philosophical, symbolic, conceptual, documentary, decorative, and even functional and other purposes, but with a primary emphasis on its aesthetic vis ...

*Information and communication technology *''Liberal studies'' (non A-Level) *Mathematics *Music *Physical education *

Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

*Psychology (done in conjunction with the Gibraltar college on college premises* *Religious studies and philosophy *''Religious studies'' (non A-level)

Notes

Schools in Gibraltar Secondary schools in British Overseas Territories Educational institutions established in 1982 1982 establishments in Gibraltar School buildings completed in 1982 Girls' schools in British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies {{Gibraltar-school-stub

Subjects offered

Key Stage 3

Key Stage 4

Sixth form

See also

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