11 Nov 2024

St George’s students attend unveiling of new community defibrillator

Students from St George’s School Windsor Castle and Windsor Girls’ School today attended the unveiling of a new community defibrillator, financed through joint fundraising activities by the two schools, including a ‘Three Peaks Challenge’ within the private grounds of Windsor Castle.

Collectively travelling 70,000 metres (43.5 miles) in 45 minutes using a variety of means, including cycling, hopping, skateboarding and dancing, the participating children and their teachers, in addition to Mike Sells from Windsor Lions and local Police Community Support Officer, David Bullock, covered the combined distance of the three highest mountains in the world twice over.

The resulting defibrillator, located at the Royal Adelaide hotel on Windsor’s Adelaide Square, is the latest of 25 devices already installed across the town through the Windsor Community Defibrillator Partnership (WCDP), a Windsor-based group comprising representatives from Windsor and Eton Rotary Club, Windsor Street Angels, Windsor Town Centre Management and Windsor Lions.

“WCDP thank the students of St George’s School Windsor Castle and Windsor Girls’ School for their great work and important fundraising to buy a publicly accessible defibrillator at the Royal Adelaide Hotel,” commented Mike Sells, representing Windsor Lions and the WCDP. “This adds yet another potentially lifesaving device to Windsor town centre.”

The children present at the launch from St George’s School Windsor Castle were all recent attendees of the school’s ‘Junior Medics’ club, which, in line with the school’s mission to ensure students become ‘Real World Ready’, offers the opportunity to learn basic practical first aid skills. In addition to gaining knowledge of the recovery position and ways in which to handle various medical emergencies, the Junior Medics had the chance to experience using a practice defibrillator as part of the sessions.

“The unveiling of the town’s newest defibrillator offered an excellent opportunity for our Junior Medics to see a real device up close,” explained Ally Onions, Junior Medics leader and Head of Safeguarding and Mental Health at St George’s School Windsor Castle. “That this critical piece of equipment exists due to the amazing fundraising efforts of St George’s and Windsor Girls’ School students, in addition to the incredible work of the WCDP to bring this to fruition, is incredibly touching.”

Waqas Arbi, Assistant Headteacher at Windsor Girls’ School, added: “Windsor Girls’ School is delighted to be a part of the successful installation of a lifesaving defibrillator, through our fundraising work with St George’s. The defibrillator is live and now accessible to members of the public who may need this vital facility.”

All WCDP-installed defibrillators are monitored and registered with the blue light emergency services for rapid response. In addition to installing devices throughout the town, the WCDP has also provided essential Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) awareness within the community.

More details about the WCDP can be found at www.windsorlions.co.uk/defib. Further information about St George’s School Windsor Castle can be found at www.stgwindsor.org and for Windsor Girls' School, see www.windsorgirls.net.

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23 Sep 2024

St George’s receives prestigious environmental award

St George’s School Windsor Castle students have once again received international accreditation for their exceptional work in promoting sustainability and raising environmental awareness amongst their peers. For the second year running, they have been awarded the Eco-Schools Green Flag with Distinction.

The Eco-Schools programme, established in 1994, is now implemented in over 70 countries worldwide. It encourages young people to explore a variety of environmental issues before spearheading environmental action in their school and local community.

This year the St George’s Eco Club built on last year’s achievements by delivering a diverse range of activities including battery collection, litter picking, an electricity saving day, various recycling crafts and lessons across the school aimed at environmental action.

Emily Ralfe, teacher and Eco Club lead, said: “It means so much to have received the Green Flag Award for the second time. It not only recognises the dedication and hard work of our Eco Club students, but also the school’s commitment to the future of our planet and developing responsible global citizens.”

Eco-Schools England Manager, Adam Flint, said: “The Eco-Schools’ Green Flag is an international benchmark that demonstrates a commitment to fighting climate change and high standard of sustainable practice. Students and staff who earn this award deserve recognition for their dedication toward protecting our planet. Every day, they demonstrate that each of us can contribute to making our planet a better, more sustainable, place.”

To learn more about Eco-Schools head to www.eco-schools.org.uk. Further information about St George’s School Windsor Castle, including details of the school’s upcoming open morning on Saturday 5 October, can be found at www.stgwindsor.org.

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05 Sep 2024

St George’s unveils warm and welcoming new Kindergarten space

After first combining two rooms into one extensive, light and airy space, calming neutral colours and natural materials were combined to create a stimulating learning environment for free-flow exploration and discovery.

Aligned to the central principles of the school’s International Baccalaureate curriculum, the design encourages children to nurture their own curiosity and develop agency over their learning. By bringing elements of the outdoors in, including a large indoor sandpit, the space also caters for a range of individual learning styles and interests.

“We took the opportunity to completely go back to the drawing board,” explained Emma Adriano, Head of Pre-Prep at St George’s School Windsor Castle. “The new environment we have created now reflects the significant value we place on children’s ideas and their desire to learn about the world around them. Every element is designed to maximise wellbeing and personal development, with multi-sensory experiences both indoors and outdoors which make learning fun and exciting.”

In addition to their bespoke new space, Kindergarten children at St George’s continue to benefit from access to the school’s wider facilities. This includes highly-qualified specialist teaching in French, music, digital learning, PE and swimming in the school’s indoor pool, as well as nature walks in the private grounds of Windsor Castle.

To see more of the new Kindergarten space in action, follow St George’s on social media – search for @stgwindsor on Instagram, Facebook and X.

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