The Melrose Junior Department took part in the Modern Foreign Language’s Eisteddfod this week.
Each class sang a song in French. Junior Remove sang about how they really wanted ‘un chien’ and Form l were looking for their ‘parapluies’. Form ll sang about the adventures of ‘La Souris Verte’ and Fo…
Mrs King, Head of Drama gives us a low down on this years Drama trip to London
A-level trip:
In the first of two trips, the A-level group left the island at an hour unknown to most teens (and indeed Mrs King!), with a meet at the airport of 05:30. After a short flight over to Gatwick, the group…
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This week parents and friends from the Junior School will get to watch a fun, silly, delightful, and wonderful story about love and acceptance - a chance to look inside that often talked about book, rather than judging what may lie inside by what you see on the outside. Shrek JR…
Every March the music department celebrates music making in the annual Spring Concert. An enjoyable evening and this year was no exception.
Our Junior Choir set the tone for the evening with the performances of Rutter’s ‘All things Bright and Beautiful’ and the well known Beatles hit ‘Penny Lane’…
This week we are launching a brand new podcast from our Principal, Daniele Harford-Fox.
Listen to opinions and thought-provoking discussions from students at The Ladies’ College first-hand. We want to aid our students, giving them a voice to talk about their concerns, their loves and hates, their…
Next week (13th to 17th March) is Neurodiversity Celebration Week, and The Ladies’ College will be learning about the strengths and challenges associated with some of the recognised neurological differences we have in our community. The Head Girl Team explained, “Neurodiversity Week is an importa…
This week in the Pre-Preparatory Department we have focused on Chinese New Year and the Year of the Rabbit. We have had lots of fun, including having our very own Chinese restaurant where lots of noodles and chopsticks have been eaten and used, we have taken part in Lantern making, and Chinese Fan …
The Art and History departments came together to encourage Key Stage 3 Art Club members to create and enter portraits into the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust’s 2023 competition.
The theme of this year’s competition was (Extra)Ordinary Portraits, which aimed to “reveal the ‘extraordinary elements of…
Huge congratulations to the Melrose girls who took part in the Primary Schools Gymnastics competition on Thursday 19th January. It was an amazing competition to be part of with over 80 girls from across all the Primary schools taking part. Each girl had to perform 2 jumps and 1 tumble routine.
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The Upper Four House Bake off kicked off Friday with a great deal of enthusiasm. Pupils arrived with additional ingredients and creative ideas to help win the judges taste buds with 12 scones. The additional challenge of presenting a cream tea meant careful whisking of cream and the challenging deb…
In French this week the girls have been learning about La Galette de Roi (The King’s Cake) that some French families eat to celebrate Epiphany on 6th January. Sadly, we couldn’t eat any as they contain almonds.
The youngest girls sat under the table and chose who would get each 'pretend' piece of…
th anniversary of The Ladies’ College and throughout the academic year, the College will be hosting events to mark the occasion, including a this year’s production: ‘Taking Centre’, written and directed by Head of Drama, Maggie King. The production will take place at the …
The concept of the Collas Crill MOOT is one that has become incredibly familiar for The Ladies’ College Sixth Form. Every year, Collas Crill, local offshore law firm, hold a series of MOOTs for all year 12 students across the island. This year, a record was broken with 100 students taking part from…
The Ladies’ College is delighted to announce the appointment of Mary Lawson as the new Head Teacher of Melrose and Pre-Preparatory, joining in September 2023.
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On Tuesday 6th December, after a year of hard work and months of promoting and voting both online and Island-wide, The Sovereign Art Foundation Guernsey held its Annual STUDENT PRIZE Awards Ceremony at St James.
As well as having twenty Key Stage Three Merit Awards, The Ladies’ College Art Depart…
The Art and Photography trip to London last weekend with 27 wonderful, creative students was a great success. We had a busy plan of exhibition visits to The Photographers Gallery, The Royal Academy of Arts and The Tate Modern. Students soaked in a wonderful amount of Art and Photography spanning ov…
The Ladies` College Art Department recently bought two new sewing machines for students to use as part of their Art Studies.
The students embroider through photographs and fabric as well as canvasses and thicker papers to create more textured work.
These new machines replace several `vintage` o…
Comment by Dr Vanessa Mitchell, Deputy Principal (Pastoral)
I saw this graph on Twitter earlier this week and, living and breathing a pastoral role in a girls’ school, it resonated with me. There are no two ways about it. For teenage girls in particular, relationships and what others think of th…
The PE Dept were delighted to host U13 teams St. Michaels, Jersey last week.
It was a brilliant day of sport with hockey in the morning and netball in the afternoon. We have asked the girls involved to tell us more about each match.
Final scores and "Player of the Match" as voted by the oppos…
We concluded our period of Remembrance in College at lunchtime today with a First World War object handling session with a particular focus on the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry. Mr McGovern demonstrated how the soldiers were prepared for battle with their provisions, their uniform and their we…
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