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Christmas at The Ladies’ College

Christmas at The Ladies’ College today

There is a lot of Christmas spirit around today, following a wonderful Carol Service at St Stephen’s yesterday. Christmas mufti and Christmas lunch was served. Yum! Christmas decorations, Christmas Fair and many of last year’s Upper Sixth are back to receive…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM

The Collas Crill Moot 2015

The Ladies' College winners!

Olivia Atkinson and Lily Davison represented the Ladies' College in the final round of this excellent and unusual competition, on Tuesday afternoon.

They were defending a fictitious case of libel brought by the prosecution (Elizabeth College students), acting for 'F…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM

The Ladies’ College reaches for the top of the league

The Sunday Times has recently published its League Tables for State and Independent Schools and The Ladies’ College is pleased to have climbed 30 places in the past year to now be positioned 200th in the rankings.

Principal, Ashley Clancy, says, ‘Whilst this is a great place to be, what the Co…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM

The Sovereign Awards Results

The Sovereign Art Foundation Guernsey Schools Prize, which is in its very first year, invited all secondary schools in Guernsey to submit ten of the best artworks produced by its students. The Ladies College submitted 10 pieces of work from students across GCSE and A Level:

Charlotte Thompson

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , ART

Exciting Science News

Last summer Katie got very excited when listening to the BBC News interviewing British Astronaut, Tim Peake. He explained that the Royal Horticultural Society had teamed up with the British Space programme to run a huge school experiment involving seeds that had spent some time up in space. This is…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SCIENCE

Introduction to Portrait Painting workshop

During the month of November the Art Department offered students in Upper Five and Sixth Form an 4 week ‘Introduction to Portrait Painting’ workshop with local Artist Liz Adams. This was an opportunity for students to develop confidence and competence in the field of portraits and oil painting. The…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , ART

Bailiff’s visit

This week we welcomed the Bailiff to College and are very grateful that he was able to find time in his busy schedule for a tour of our grounds and to meet with members of our Sixth Form. Over a cup of tea and slice of The Core's famous Ladies' College cake (which keeps so many of us going) the gir…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM

The Sovereign Art Foundation

The Sovereign Art Foundation Guernsey Schools Prize, which is in its very first year, recently invited all secondary schools in Guernsey to submit ten of the best artworks produced by its students. These were viewed by a judging panel last week, who then shortlisted 12 finalists. We are proud to an…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , ART

De Putron Challenge

Last night a group of our Lower Four students took part in the De Putron Year 8 Challenge and... WE WON! Our team of Harriet Huxtable, Maddy Pope, Pia Thapliyal and reserves Anya Tee and Abby Luxon, represented us at St. James and saw off the competition over 10 rounds, culminating in a final agai…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL

Phase 3 Building site

This morning’s view of our very busy Phase 3 building site. Now the steel framework is going in, you can start to understand the vast scope of the project! It may not look very impressive at the moment but this space will house our new library, refectory, study skills area and new music rooms amon…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL

IoD Annual dinner

On Thursday evening (22nd Oct) two of our Sixth Formers, Maddy and Freya represented Ladies' College at the Guernsey Institute of Directors Annual dinner on the student table as the 'Directors of Tomorrow' (many thanks to the Ana Leaf Foundation for sponsoring this). The girls got involved in the l…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM

Time Capsule burial

Friday 23rd October

It has been a busy day for our students today, with our end of half term Commemoration Service, celebrating the College’s history, having taken place. Looking to the future, we are also excited to have buried five time capsules in the foundations of our new extension – par…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM

Remove Music Evening

This week saw our new Removes (Year 7) entertain members of our College community (parents, friends, teaching colleagues and each other) at their informal music evening. The girls topped and tailed the programme with a selection of songs they have been learning together in class and, between these…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , MUSIC

Curriculum Evening – 14 October 2015

Click below to download the information page from the recent Curriculum evening for Remove, Lower four and Upper four Parents

Curriculum Evening – 14 October 2015: Information for Remove, Lower Four and Upper Four parents

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL

Printmaking workshop

At the beginning of the Summer a number of our students embarked on a printmaking workshop, to be run over 5 weekends with Janice Earley a local printmaker. On Saturday 10th October, The Ladies' College hosted the final session where GCSE students in Upper Five were offered the opportunity to come …

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , ART

GSA gymnastics competition

Well done to the gymnasts who took part in the GSA gymnastics competition at Edgbaston High School today. Both the under 14 and under 19 competitions were tightly contested and both teams ended the day in 4th position. Well done to Miss Thackeray for all her hard work in helping the girls prepare t…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Duke of Edinburgh Award

Over 50 girls from Lower Five completed their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award Practice and Qualifying expeditions on the 10th/11th October 2015.

They left Vazon and followed routes around the island, up and down and along roads and lanes  previously unknown to some, occasionally stopping to r…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM

The Big Build

Last week a small group of our students (whose names were selected from a hat of volunteers) were able to take a peek behind the hoardings at our building works for the first time.

In preparation for their expedition, everyone was first briefed on safety matters and kitted out with hard hats and…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL

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…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , MELROSE

Institute of Directors Annual Convention

Former Ladies' College student Natalia Jopling Tanser represented the school today at the Institute of Directors Annual Convention as one of the 'Directors of Tomorrow' sponsored by the Ana Leafe Foundation.  The programme included a panel debate with Lords Mandelson and Lawson about Britain's EU m…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM