School Open Day 2014

Triathlon 2014

The Ladies' College held their first triathlon in warm conditions in late September 2014. The course which was staged around the College grounds involved a 200m swim, 2150m cycle and a 1000m run.  All of the 12 girls from Remove to Lower 5 who entered, embraced the endurance challenge that the even…

Red Arrows

A sunny lunch time at The Ladies' College, being enjoyed by Melrose and Senior Girls. The Red Arrows provided fun entertainment for the College community. One of the jets even "waved" at us, as it flew by!

Swimming skills on show

Melrose junior swimming gala was held on a glorious afternoon in the Ladies' College pool.

There was some fantastic swimming on display, as well as some very courageous finishes from those girls developing their swimming skills.

Well done to all those who competed.

Form II take trip in time

Tagging along

There was lots of energy and excitement when Melrose hosted a mini tag rugby tournament on the Guild Field.

Year 2 pupils from Acorn House joined us, with Guernsey's rugby development officer Steve Welbourne organising a great afternoon of sport and fun. We had two pitches on the go and played n…

A good sport

A number of Melrose girls will be taking part in the new '7/7' cycling challenge in aid of the hospice - following Mrs Morris's lead as she undertakes the gruelling 30/30 version of the challenge.

Our thanks go to Ian Brown who came in to Melrose assembly to talk to the girls about the chal…

In Flanders fields...

Our Junior Remove girls have been planting Flanders poppy seeds in the 'wild area' at the edge of the Melrose garden as part of the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War.

The girls used their History lessons to start thinking about this anniversary and the significance of poppies…

Pre-Preparatory in the swim

Look how much fun we had at our final swimming session this term!

Pre-School love to swim and here we all are, swimming together for a fun play session!

Mrs Reynolds, Pre-Preparatory Leader

Sixth Form lend a hand

Upper 6D kindly gave up some of their valuable time to help the PE Department run a gymnastics session for the Melrose Pre-School in the Ladies' College Gym.

The Upper 6 girls really enjoyed helping the youngest girls in the College. The Pre-School peas and beans had a fantastic time and were rea…

A warm welcome at The Core

The team at The Core would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year and to invite all pupils and staff to try our new term's menus.

We have some new dishes for you to try this term such as fisherman's pie, bubble and squeak, courgette carbonara and a chorizo pasta big bowl salad to name but a few. …

All the fun of the Fayre

Saturday December 14th he Melrose Christmas Fayre taking place.

We had a visit from the red suited man himself, all girls seemed to have been good!

There were lovely eats in Mrs Claus Café, with sticky gingerbread and hot chocolate with marshmallows!

Stalls galore from nail painting to 1D …

Call the Midwife

'A Midwife Crisis' was the intriguing title of this year's Melrose Preparatory Department nativity play. The plot, it appeared, revolved around a busy midwife rushing to get to Mary before the birth of baby Jesus - with a few adventures en route!

The much-loved, familiar roll call of Mary, Josep…

Melrose Inspection

Following an intensive vetting by the Independent Schools Inspectorate, Melrose and The Ladies' College Pre-School have been judged 'Excellent'.

UK inspectors spent a total of six days in the junior school and Pre-School during two separate visits in October. Their report says:

Excellent teachi…

Cash for Schools

Please keep your Moonpig Cash for Schools vouchers coming in for Melrose. Last week we were awarded 50,000 bonus points when our Bonus Ball was picked out of the bag by the children at Les Voies School.

Every little bit helps, though, so please cut out the Moonpig vouchers found in The Press and …

The Italian Job

Some of our youngest girls became teeny-tiny pizza chefs recently when Pre-School went Italian.

The girls spent a week learning about Italian food and culture, the highlight of which was visiting The Italian Job pizza restaurant. There they rolled dough, made pizza bases and covered them with top…

Greg Rutherford visits Ladies' College

Ladies' College was thrilled to welcome London 2012 Olympic Long Jump Champion Greg Rutherford. He came to school to talk about his amazing sporting experiences and show off his well deserved Gold Medal.

He told the girls how fortunate he had been, to able to compete in London 2012 at full fitne…

Commemoration Service Celebrates Founders

Photo: Zoe Collins, 4, the youngest student at Melrose, leaves St Stephen's after Commemoration Service

The first of many "new traditions" took place today when the whole school celebrated Commemoration Service at St Stephen's Church.

The new timing of the event, on the actual day Ladies' Col…

David Bedford visits Melrose

Children's author David Bedford thrilled Melrose girls when he came to read some of his many books to our eager Preparatory audience.

He read "Mole's Babies" and "It's a George thing" a story about a zebra who did not think he was very good at anything, until he heard music and discovered he was…

Melrose girls swim for Playground

Melrose completely decamped to Beau Sejour last Friday to take part in the great Guernsey tradition that is the Swimarathon.

All girls from Lower Prep to Form III took part. The Junior girls all swam in their Houses, each working as a team and supporting each other. The Preparatory girls swam in…