Westside School, Gibraltar

Coordinates: 36°08′39″N 5°21′22″W / 36.144205°N 5.356047°W / 36.144205; -5.356047

Westside School
Address
Queensway
Gibraltar
Information
Type Single-sex comprehensive
Established 1982
Headmaster Dr George Garcia
Ages 12-18
Gender of pupils Female
Website Westside Official Website

Westside School or simply Westside is a girls' comprehensive school in the British territory of Gibraltar.

The school opened in 1982, and was built in order to make available a better education to the students of the former Girls' Comprehensive School which had been then spread over three different sites. It was originally an amalgamation of four girls' schools: Loreto High School, St. Joseph's Secondary School, St. Margaret's School, and St. David's Commercial School.[1]

Subjects offered

Westside offers a range of subjects at different levels. These are at Key Stage 3 (year 8 & 9), Key Stage 4 (year 10 & 11) and Sixth form (year 12 and 13).[2] Students do their GCSEs during Key Stage 4 and those who wish to further their studies from their, do their A-Levels during sixth form. Italicized subjects indicate compulsory subjects.

Key Stage 3

[2]

Key Stage 4
  • Home Craft (non GCSE)
  • Information and Communication Technology
  • Italian
  • Mathematics
  • Music
  • Personal, Social and Health Education (non GCSE)
  • Physical Education
  • Religious Studies
  • Spanish
  • Core science (formerly known as 'Single science')
  • Additional science (formerly known as 'Dual science')

[2]

Sixth form

  • Art and Design
  • Biology
  • Business Studies
  • Chemistry
  • Economics
  • English Literature
  • French
  • Geography
  • History
  • History of Art
  • Information and Communication Technology
  • Liberal Studies (non A-Level)
  • Mathematics
  • Music
  • Physical Education
  • Physics
  • Psychology (done in conjunction with the Gibraltar college on college premises*
  • Religious Studies and Philosophy
  • Religious Studies (non A-level)

[2]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "General information". Bayside Comprehensive School. Archived from the original on 2007-06-25. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Courses available". Westside School. Retrieved 2007-09-19.


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