Willoughby Girls' High School (WGHS) is a

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for girls, located in Willoughby, a lower North Shore suburb of Sydney,

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, 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.

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 . 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 *

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* P&C sports: netball, basketball, (indoor and outdoor) hockey, touch footy * Chess club * Dance * French film club * Anime and Manga club * SRC

Alumni

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References

{{Authority control Public high schools in Sydney Educational institutions established in 1934 Girls' schools in New South Wales 1934 establishments in Australia Willoughby, New South Wales

Facilities and activities

Extra curricular activities

Alumni

See also

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