26 April 2024

Dear Students,

We hope you have had a good week.

We are sure most of you will be aware of an incident that took place outside of school this week involving some of our students.  We were shocked and saddened by the behaviour of a small minority of our students and know that it does not reflect the wonderful values that most of you demonstrate day in day out.

It is frustrating that the reputation of the school can be damaged by a such small group of students, but we are thankful to the rest of you for continuing to uphold the values and behaviour that makes Windsor Girls’ School such a great, positive community.  Everyone can play their part in maintaining this positivity by not engaging with or sharing social media posts about negative incidents and reporting anything in to staff.

On that note we are pleased to share with you the feedback that colleagues from our ‘Challenge Partners’ schools gave us during their visit on Tuesday.  They were full of praise for the school commenting on the calm environment, positive culture and amazing students.  During their day they met with staff, visited lessons, and spoke with students and were particularly impressed with how eloquent and confident you were.  As you know we are constantly looking for external feedback on the school and it was encouraging to hear how positively they felt about Windsor Girls’.

In other news we are busy supporting Year 11 and Year 13 in the run up to their examinations with some students already starting their Art and Language practical assessments this week.  We would encourage you to attend the examination evening events next week with your parents, so you are fully prepared for what is coming up.

We have also seen a number of you representing the school in sports fixtures, careers events and a ‘Model UN’ meeting this week.  Once again, it is wonderful to see how many of you are taking advantage of the wonderful opportunities available to you.

We wish you all a very restful weekend.

Mr P Griffiths and Mrs E O’Carroll

Co-Headteachers