Our A Level Drama students performed at this year’s 67th Gibraltar International Drama Festival. The group performed their exam devised piece entitled ‘Medusa’. The play was written and created by the students themselves with the guidance and direction from their Drama teachers Miss Bishop and Miss McGrail. 

 ‘Medusa’ was selected as 2 out of 12 plays in this year’s festival to perform in the gala on Saturday and achieved the second highest marks as a play as a whole. 

The play also received the award for Best Stage Presentation. Eva Devincenzi was awarded Best Supporting Actress and Rodrigo Ribeiro and Anna Richardson were both nominated for Best Actor/ Actress.

 A big thanks to our Westside stage crew Charlie Davies, Theo Seed, Grace Dyson and Olivia Bellingan.

The year 7 cohort spent a week carrying out these 'Women in Science' projects during their science lessons and were then given another week to finish them off in their own time. This involved creating posters to raise awareness on the ground-breaking contributions that women have made in their fields and how they have historically been underrepresented in STEM fields. Here are some pictures of 1st, 2nd, 3rd places and Highly Commended students.

The year 9 Cohort had an online journalism workshop with Miles Salter an author, writer, freelance journalist and story teller. 

They really enjoyed the session and it sparked some brilliant conversations. It made the news more tangible to them and really got them thinking.

Last December the RE Department partnered up with Fr. Charlie Azzopardi in order to help send a message of hope to the less fortunate in Gibraltar.  As in the past 25 years the church has delivered 400 food hampers to those in need. The students of years 10 & 11 at Westside wrote 400 Christmas cards with a personalized message of hope to be included with these hampers. This was part of our initiative to bring the school community closer to the wider Gibraltar community. 

12 young people from our school, Year 7-13, took part this year in the Rock Retreat and Accord Literary Young Writers’ Competition. All students submitted a piece of writing. Angelika Bosco, Year 12, was one of eight recipients of a trophy award; these recipients have been chosen from all submissions from all students, across all participating countries. Our Head Student and Year 12, Eva De Vincenzi and one of our Year 8 pupils, Anali Ressa Moreno, were also in receipt of a certificate of congratulations and recognition for their writing. 

A successful collaboration between Westside, Bayside, the Gibraltar College, the Youth Service and CIPD. Future Pathways provided our learners with insights from professionals in many different sectors who gave of their time in order to deliver advice, their experiences and potential pathways for our Year 12s. 

Year 7 and 8 form tutors have been nominating a 'Student of the Month' since the start of the academic year.

These are our September, October, November & December awards.

Year 7s have been working on Identity in the Media. They were asked to design an advert for a product.

The best adverts from each class were rewarded with a trip to GBC and a chance to film their advert in a real studio!!