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23.06.23
On Thursday, 22nd June, The Ladies’ College English Department hosted the inaugural A Midsummer Eve English Celebration. Held on The Ladies’ College Lawn, The Department welcomed students, parentsand staff to listen to a variety of creative work, ranging from powerful speeches, enriched with skillf…
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04.04.23
On Friday 31st March, the final of the Monachan Memorial Trophy for public speaking was held in the Drama Studio, marking the 11th year of this prestigious College competition.
There were six finalists, two from each of the classes. Anni commenced this year’s final with her thoughtful and nat…
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30.03.23
The author Stewart Foster visited College on Wednesday March 29th, 2023, to speak to Remove and Lower Four students about his writing process. ‘Checkmates’ is a popular class reader in Form III in Melrose and was familiar to the students. His other books are aimed at older readers, his recent book …
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11.10.22
On the 7th October, the English Department was able to take our Sixth Form Literature students to Stratford-Upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s birthplace. On Friday, students enjoyed a lecture by Dr Jennifer Waghorn on ‘Hamlet’ which helped to consolidate the students’ learning whilst enjoying the beautiful …
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05.04.22
On Monday 4th April, the final of the Monachan Memorial Trophy for public speaking was held in the Drama Studio, marking the 10th anniversary of this prestigious College competition.
There were six finalists, two from each of the classes in Upper Four (Year 9). The English Department was deli…
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ENGLISH
31.03.22
To celebrate this event Lisa Thompson, the 2020 Winner of the Channel Island Children’s Book Awards, visited The Ladies' College to talk to students in Remove and Lower Four on Wednesday 30th March to address them in the hall…
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24.05.21
Kate Gilby-Smith was a student at The Ladies' College from 2003 - 2010. She studied A-level English with Mrs Zoe Ellis, who is now Head of English. Mrs Ellis welcomed Kate this morning to run a session with the Remove students in the library telling them about her first novel, 'The Astonishing Fu…
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29.04.21
On Tuesday 27th April, the final of the Monachan Memorial Trophy for public speaking was held in the Drama Studio.
There were four finalists, one from each of the classes in Upper Four. Lucy Clarke commenced this year’s final with her insightful talk entitled “Seven Hours and Twenty-two Minutes” …
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01.07.20
To remember and celebrate 75 years of freedom, Dr Marshall launched a school poetry competition in the Spring term with the support of the Arts Commission and Heritage 75 Festival. Students were asked to write a poem that remembered some aspect of the occupation or to celebrate Liberation.
"It i…
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20.11.19
The staff in the English Department are very proud of one of their sixth form students who has recently published her own book of poetry called Animus - which is Latin for mind, heart, spirit. It is on sale on Amazon and she also has a dedicated Instagram account entitled emilyabreu.poetry which…
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SIXTH FORM ,
ENGLISH
10.05.19
In this year's Write Stuff Competition, which is run annually as part of the Guernsey Literary Festival, students from Guernsey schools were asked to write a description of up to 300 words on the topic 'Imaginary Worlds'. Two of our Senior School students, Amandine and Lizzie, achieved first and th…
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SIXTH FORM ,
ENGLISH
04.04.19
On Wednesday 3rd April it was the final of our annual Monachan Memorial Trophy for public speaking.
All of the Upper Four students have worked exceptionally hard on this unit of work, producing talks of a high quality and covering a diverse range of topical subjects. The finalists were: Ameil…
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ENGLISH
05.07.18
Thursday 6th September 2018
New Remove arrive for 08:30 and go to Form Rooms (photographs from 09:10)
Lower Four arrive for 09:30 and go to Form Rooms (photographs from 09:40)
Upper Four arrive for 10:00 and go to Form Rooms (photographs from 10:10)
Lower Five arrive for 10:30 a…
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20.03.18
On Friday 16th March it was the final of our annual Monachan Memorial Trophy for public speaking. All of the Upper Fours have worked exceptionally hard on this unit of work, producing talks of a high quality and covering a diverse range of topics. The finalists were: Aimee Browning, Izzy Davidson,…
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23.03.17
Earlier this month the school held the annual Monachan Memorial Trophy for Public Speaking, which is competed for by the Upper Four.
This years winner was Simone Ashplant with the subject Why Do We Sterotype Colours?
Mrs King very kindly put a video together of the competiton with all of the fi…
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17.01.17
The latest Ilex magazine is now published and can be accessed . We hope that you will looking through it, agree that the Upper Sixth team responsible for putting it together, led by Maninda Singh, have done an excellent job. Our girls are involved in a very great many things in the course of…
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13.01.17
Upper Sixth English students from The Ladies College attended a first class production of 'The Rover' with a pupil workshop in January this year with Mrs King and Mr Swann in attendance.
'Masquerading! A lewd custom to deba…
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25.11.16
The Ladies’ College (The College) has completed a full British Schools’ Overseas inspection by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) and, having received their final report, has published the ISI’s findings to parents.
The College was delighted to be judged as excellent (the highest rating) …
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23.11.16
The annual House Creative Writing Competition took place in November with some outstanding creative entries. The girls were asked to submit either poetry or prose on a number of different themes ranging from discovery to jealousy and power. Entries were submitted from Remove, Lower and Upper Four,…
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06.07.16
We wish everyone a very happy summer break, following Mark Reading and Melrose and The Ladies' College Speech Days which celebrated as much as could be fitted in from 2015-2016.
Work goes on in College to get the building ready for September. We thought you would be interested to see the fr…
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