Willoughby Girls High School
Encyclopedia
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 931 students from Years 7 to 12, and is the only comprehensive government girls' school situated on the lower north shore of Sydney.
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
, day school
Day school
A day school—as opposed to a boarding school—is an institution where children are given educational instruction during the day and after which children/teens return to their homes...
for girls, located in Willoughby
Willoughby, New South Wales
Willoughby is a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Willoughby is located 8 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Willoughby....
, a lower North Shore suburb of Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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Established in 1934, Willoughby Girls' High currently enrols around 931 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 tennis courts, a playing field, library, senior study rooms, canteen, science labs, computer labs, design and technology rooms, music studio, art rooms, a senior dark room and landscaped courtyards. The school has a wide variety of after school or extracurricular activities available for students. 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 must sit a test to earn their place each year.See also
- List of Government schools in New South Wales
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