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One class managed to grab a final class picture after the last Creative Writing Assessment.

11.3 have been superstars this year!! 🎉

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More of Year 13's revision from the final weeks.

Well done for all of your resilience and hard work this year, girls! 🤩

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Following what has been an incredibly busy period for our Year 13s, we’ll share some snippets of their revision from the last few weeks.
Here are some delivering mini-presentations on the Keats Poetry. 🤩

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Is this the week you perfect your semicolon use? https://t.co/pvHB9cCSYt

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Happy Easter Holidays all!

This weekend sees the release of the filmed version of the National Theatre's Romeo & Juliet.

Years 10 & 11 in particular are encouraged to watch this production which airs on Sky Arts on Sunday 4th April at 9pm as we continue studying the play. 🎭

[WGS Geography @GeographyWgs]

Wanting some ideas for half term? Thank you to @missgeog92 for creating! I’m definitely looking forward to making lots of pancakes! @WGSWindsorGirls

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Here are some more stars from last week. 🤩🤩

In English Language, students compare the viewpoints of writers and the methods they use.

11.3 compared Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino & Donald Trump's views of America, and Katy Perry & Tammy Wynette's views of relationships.

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English Stars 🤩
One Year 10 student submitted this excellent creative writing piece based on a picture this week, which impressed Miss Armstrong so much we had to share it!

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Competition Time 💫
This is a Valentine’s day ♥️ or (anti-Valentine’s!💔) poetry competition put together by some of our creative Year 13s for all year groups to enter.
The winner will get featured in The Windsorian, with other prizes up for grabs too!
Further details below 👇

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World Book Day: Amazon are currently selling a range of books for £1 to celebrate World Book Day - a bargain to boost literacy! 📚📖 https://t.co/FDPiCLRCra

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Recently Year 12 and Year 13 have practised their online presentation skills, delivering their research of authors and texts to the class via Zoom.

Absolutely fantastic effort by both year groups - well done! 👏🏼👏🏼

[AQA @AQA]

We've created a one-stop page to keep you updated on the changes to assessment and exams in 2021 > https://t.co/fVOjx3GuWO

[Windsor Girls' @WGSWindsorGirls]

Parents and carers, you are doing a fantastic job supporting your daughters remote learning. Please don’t worry about whether they are doing enough. Our team are here to support them and will make sure that no one is left behind. Please try and take a break over the weekend!

[Scott Bryan @scottygb]

Similar to the first lockdown last year, Bitesize Daily shows will be accompanied with special archive broadcasts of factual, drama that reflects the curriculum.

Programmes begin 9am with BBC Live Lessons and Bitesize Daily. All episodes will be on iPlayer.

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BBC Two will focus for secondary school content to help students learning the GCSE curriculum. There will be two hours of lessons broadcast on television per day.

All of this will sit alongside the existing BBC Bitesize content, which will be available on the Red Button.

[AQA @AQA]

Here’s everything we know following the government’s latest announcement about exams.

We know you’ll want more details, so we’ll keep you updated as we hear more > https://t.co/EmEM9B8iX7

[Windsor Girls' @WGSWindsorGirls]

Year 13 testing will not go ahead tomorrow. An email has been sent to all parents. Thank you for your support.

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Following on from tonight’s announcement we will continue to offer on site provision to vulnerable students and students of key workers. Remote learning will begin tomorrow for all Year Groups. Thank you for your continued support #AspireAdvanceAchieve

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We would like to wish our students, parents, families, staff and Governors a very Happy New Year #StayAtHome #AspireAdvanceAchieve