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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…
NEWS
SENIOR SCHOOL ,
ENGLISH
22.03.17
Pre-Preparatory Week 10
On Wednesday our 'Beans' took part in the Eisteddfod in the group poem section. They spoke absolutely fantastically, and loved having mud on their clothes, faces and hands and leaves in their hair all adding to the poem entitled 'Dirt on My Shirt'.
NEWS
PRE-PREPARATORY
22.03.17
As you probably know our students recently played cup matches in Jersey against the Jersey College for Girls.
Not only did they play some excellent sport, they also found time to have some fun as you can see from this excellent video that Hannah Barrett found time to make of the trip. Thanks …
NEWS
SENIOR SCHOOL ,
SIXTH FORM ,
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
17.03.17
The House Garden Project was launched this week. Each House has been given a container and a small budget to help complete the challenge. We look forward to seeing how the girls work as a team and use their initiative and creativity to produce a plate of food and a flower arrangement at the end of…
NEWS
SENIOR SCHOOL
15.03.17
Wow! What a fun week Melrose have had at the Music Eisteddfod. Lovely comments throughout the week with trophies for Junior Choir, Handbells and Recorder Groups on top of some sterling solo performances.
NEWS
MELROSE ,
MUSIC
14.03.17
This week has been undoubtedly wet, however when there is rain and ground there is MUD!!! Pre-Prep have loved playing in the mud cooking, painting and creating this week. By the end of the week it was time to wash everything down. We are also hopeful that spring is on the way as we spotted our fro…
NEWS
PRE-PREPARATORY
09.03.17
To celebrate International Women's Day, we asked students and staff from the Senior School who are originally from or whose family are from another country to stand in front of a camera and say "hello" in that language. This film to celebrate International Women's Day and the international com…
NEWS
SENIOR SCHOOL ,
SIXTH FORM
08.03.17
We hope you are having a good International Women’s Day!
The Ladies’ College has International Women’s Day as our assembly theme this week. In our whole school assembly on Monday we learned, heard and watched Maya Angelou, a truly inspirational women, whose poetry explored the challenges of her…
NEWS
SENIOR SCHOOL ,
SIXTH FORM ,
MELROSE ,
PRE-PREPARATORY
06.03.17
Today is the day!
Two performances to choose from on Friday 24th March, with a raffle being held on the night for a wonderful selection of prizes and gift hampers. Raffle tickets will be sold throughout the day.
Proceeds from ticket sales and the raffle will go towards …
NEWS
SENIOR SCHOOL ,
SIXTH FORM ,
A GIFT FOR LEARNING
06.03.17
The first week back after half term has been incredibly busy for Pre-Prep. On Tuesday we individually made and of course had to taste our pancakes, which were very yummy with our choice of toppings. We met the Lieutenant Governor and Lady Corder on Wednesday who visited the school, and joined …
NEWS
PRE-PREPARATORY ,
FOREST SCHOOL
02.03.17
GUERNSEY STUDENTS THROUGH TO UK FINAL OF THE BIG BANG COMPETITION
Three teams of students from The Ladies' College Guernsey in Guernsey, have made it through to the UK final of The Big Bang UK Young Scientists and Engineers Competition after wowing judges at the regional heats.
Team “The Crys…
NEWS
SENIOR SCHOOL ,
SCIENCE
02.03.17
The College enjoyed another spectacular House Gym and Dance Competition before the half term break.
Final results were:
Remove Gymnast - Maisie Webster and Grace Davison
…
NEWS
SENIOR SCHOOL ,
SIXTH FORM ,
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
01.03.17
by His Excellency Sir Ian Corder, Lady Corder and Major Marco Ciotti
Today we welcomed the Lieutenant Governor and Lady Corder to College, accompanied by Major Ciotti. Their visit started in our outside classroom at Melrose where our visitors met a group of our youngest pupils (aged 2-3 years)…
NEWS
SENIOR SCHOOL ,
SIXTH FORM ,
MELROSE ,
PRE-PREPARATORY
27.02.17
13th - 16th February
Pre-Prep have had a wonderful time learning all about fire safety and cooking on open fires. We initially played a lot of safety games, so that everyone knew exactly how to stay safe and move around an open fire. Then on Wednesday we laid and lit a real fire in our 'Forest…
NEWS
MELROSE ,
PRE-PREPARATORY ,
FOREST SCHOOL
16.02.17
Melrose girls attended Government House on Wednesday 15th February, to collect their certificates, wrist bands and photographs for raising £1651.50 to help 3 orphaned bears through the Walk For Wildlife and Born Free Foundation.
Lady Corder kindly presented the girls with their certificates.
…
NEWS
MELROSE
16.02.17
Bernie and Linda came to visit LP to tell us all how to keep safe. We learnt all about what a Fireman does and wears to keep safe. We learnt all about smoke detectors and how we should have them in our homes.
Then we learnt to STOP, DROP AND ROLL. This is what we should do if our clothes caugh…
NEWS
MELROSE
15.02.17
On Monday night Lower Four visited the Société Guernesiaise Observatory. Students enjoyed a talk about the solar system and the various celestial bodies we can see in the night sky. When the clouds parted, students were lucky enough to observe the Orion Nebula, Venus and even the Andromeda galaxy,…
NEWS
SENIOR SCHOOL ,
SCIENCE
14.02.17
This half-term, U4 Historians have been investigating "Why was there no meeting of Minds in the New World?"
Their task has been to prepare some teaching materials for Year 4 pupils and on Monday 13th February the whole of U4 made an excursion to St Martin's Primary School.
There was a b…
NEWS
SENIOR SCHOOL ,
HISTORY
13.02.17
The girls in Pre-Prep love having tea parties. So they invited their Daddies or Granddads in for 'Afternoon Tea'. We had a busy time preparing, each of the girls made, cooked and decorated a heart shaped cake for their guest. The guests arrived and the girls were so excited, they took their guests…
NEWS
PRE-PREPARATORY
10.02.17
The Melrose hall was turned into a deep, dark forest with monstrous trees, terrible beasties and wiggly woos when the Preparatory department re-enacted the story of 'Sir Charlie Stinky Socks and the Really BIG Adventure' led by the author herself, Kristina Stephenson. As well as having a wonderful…
NEWS
MELROSE