TEDxYouth Event

Guernsey is pleased to host its first ever TEDxYouth event. This incorporates some pre-recorded TED talks, with live talks from locals and also speakers brought over from the UK.This is an event which will tackle issues that young people face, and hopefully inspire solutions for our visio…

Pancakes at Pre-Preparatory

This week we celebrated Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day), we made our batter, poured it into a pan, and then cooked and tossed it ourselves! Then the best was eating the yummy pancake. We also celebrated a special 3rd Birthday this week.

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Annual PTA Pancake Breakfast

8am on Tuesday 9th February Melrose was a buzz with girls and parents. It was the annual PTA Pancake Breakfast.

Girls started their day with a delicious warm pancake, topped with an array of toppings, each one as scrummy as the next.

The PTA had an army of helpers including Mr Honeybill who loo…

Pre-Preparatory stories and stickmen

This week Pre-Preparatory have had lots of fun with the 'big girls'. We made dens, and built sand creations. Middle Preparatory wrote some wonderful stories and then came and shared them with us. Another fun filled week was ended with Lower Preparatory joining us to share the 'Stick man' story and…

Campfires and magic stick gardens

We have had fun outside in Pre-Preparatory this week (25th - 29th Jan), we enjoyed reading stories outside on the Literary Festival's story bench which was kindly loaned to Melrose for the week. We have also made campfires and magic stick gardens. Our nursery rhyme this week has been 'Baa, baa bla…

Ilex 2015

The latest Ilex magazine is now published and can be accessed . We are very proud of the latest edition and would encourage everyone to share the Ilex with their extended family and friends. Many congratulations to all those involved; in particular editors, Charlotte Thompson and Laura Smith,…

Team work at Pre-Preparatory

Pre-Preparatory have been very busy this week making bird feeders, umbrellas and so many 'creative creations' being designed. We have excitedly celebrated two special birthdays this week too! We are also very proud of all the 'team work' that the girls have displayed this week.

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Week of fun and games outside

The weather has been terrible this week with hail, and torrential rain and very gusty windy days however Pre-Preparatory had a wonderful week of fun and games outside, making kites and building dens. We also cooked some cheesy mice and made finger puppet mice as we were talking about hickory dicko…

An exciting new year begins in Pre-Preparatory!

Tue 5 Jan - Fri 8 Jan

We have had a fun first week back at Pre-Preparatory. We welcomed some new friends to Pre-Preparatory and have been very buzzzzzzzyyyy! we also cooked tasty honey bumble bees. We are very excited that Mrs Loveridge is now back after her baby and we are ready for an exciti…

Melrose Christmas Jumpers

Monday 14 December

Today Melrose School Council held their annual 'Christmas Jumper Day' in support of their chosen charity; Unicef. Much fun was had as the girls met in the Hall to sing and dance along to Christmas tunes. The Council gave an assembly to remind the school of the reasons beh…

Melrose PTA Christmas Fair

On Saturday Melrose held its annual Melrose PTA Christmas Fair.

As ever it was full of fun and laughter with all the girls and parents working hard together to create amazing games and puzzles for all to have a go at. There was a nail parlour for those wishing some Christmas pampering, a real liv…

The sound 'n' and the colour white

Mon 2 Nov - Fri 6 Nov

Well, what an exciting week! We have been focusing on the colour white in the Pea pod and the sound 'n' in the Bean pod. It was a little bit of a windy week and so we also helped Mr Glover sweep all the leaves which turned into a lot of fun! However, even more exciting hav…

Melrose 'Children in Need'

On Friday 13th November, Melrose and the Pre-Preparatory Department dressed in their Pyjamas for the day to support Children in Need. Form III prepared a fantastic assembly and explained to the whole school why we were raising money. The girls took part in a variety of activities from making Pudse…

Melrose ‘Wear it Wild’

On Friday 6 November Melrose went 'wild' to raise money for the Toilet Twinning Charity (see http://www.toilettwinning.org/ for more information) by dressing up as their favourite animals. The School Council organised the event and managed to raise their target of £240 to enable Melrose’s faci…

The sound 't' and the colour purple

This week in Pre-Preparatory we are thinking about the sound 't' and the colour purple, we have been busy with many exciting activities however one of the most unusual was looking at squids purple markings and tentacles. We had fun exploring all of the squid finding lots of suckers on the tentacle…

Melrose football match

On Wednesday 14th October, the Melrose football team played a match again LMDC. The girls were up against a tough team but it really was a case of two halves. In the first half the Melrose team fought bravely but by half-time were 4-1 down. After a clearly inspirational pep talk the girls were exc…

Swimarathon Presentation

On Wednesday 21st October Melrose Sports Monitors attended the Swimarathon Presentation at Beau Sejour.

The Swimarathon raised over £55,000 for the Cheshire Homes and other charities on the island.

Melrose managed to raise an incredible £2,700 towards this great charity event. In recognition …

Melrose meet the Fire Brigade

This week Melrose welcomed officers from the Fire and Rescue Service. They came to explain how fires are fought in the present day, with modern machinery and practices. This is in preparation for the girls to soon turn their attention to how fires were fought in the past – where the sirens were def…

Skipton Swimarathon

On Friday 9th October 2015 the Ladies' College Senior, Junior and Preparatory Departments all took part in the Skipton Swimarathon . The girls were raising money for Cheshire Homes and they enthusiastically tackled the challenge of working together in teams to ensure a continuous stream of swimmers…

Women's Networking Event

Last night 60 women attended our ‘ladies only’ networking event held at the i2 office, Royal Chambers, to celebrate the future of The Ladies’ College and its role in supporting women, business and island life in general. Attendees enjoyed a champagne reception plus presentations from Dame Mary Perk…