Skateboarding added to PE curriculum

Announcement of the New Principal

The Ladies’ College, Guernsey is delighted to announce that Ms Daniele Harford-Fox has been appointed as the next Principal. She will succeed Mrs Ashley Clancy, who retires from this role in April next year.

Ms Harford-Fox takes up the role of Principal of The Ladies’ College in 2022, when the Co…

Summer 2021 GCSE results

Our Upper Five (Year 11) students received their GCSE results today, after a year when the demands of academic study were compounded by tests of courage, determination, and resilience. We are immensely proud of our students; they have come through with flying colours. We congratulate them and their…

Summer 2021 A-level results

We are incredibly proud of our Upper Sixth students for all that they have achieved and for how well they have adapted and adjusted to Covid-related changes as they approached the end of their education at The Ladies’ College. Their resilience, commitment, energy and determination have shone throug…

Art & Photography Exhibition 2021

It is that time of the Year again…

The annual Art & Photography Exhibition is on display all this week in the Hall and Foyer in the Senior School.  A Private Viewing was held on Monday for the students and their families and invited guests. 

"Superb and amazingly colourful art work by the s…

Sailing Championships 2021

The weather forecast for the 2021 College Sailing Championships was not promising. There was very little wind as the twelve competitors from Lower 4 to Upper 5 rigged their six RS Fevas, and it dropped to nothing soon after they launched, so that most had to be towed around to the race area in the …

Junior School Production 'Mary Poppins'

The Ladies’ College Junior School, Melrose, is staging the classic musical ‘Mary Poppins’ for its junior production this year. The show should have taken place last term but due to lockdown, it was unable to happen. The School however was determined that the show must go on and so pupils will be pe…

Time Travel author visit

Kate Gilby-Smith was a student at The Ladies' College from 2003 - 2010.  She studied A-level English with Mrs Zoe Ellis, who is now Head of English.  Mrs Ellis welcomed Kate this morning to run a session with the Remove students in the library telling them about her first novel, 'The Astonishing Fu…

Next Drama production announced - 'Fame ' the Musical

The Ladies' College are proud to announce their next whole school production: 'Fame' the musical, which will be performed in January 2022 at the Princess Royal Centre for Performing Arts!

Set in 1980's New York the play follows the lives of the students of a performing arts school, who want nothi…

College alumna part of Royal Marines Band funeral procession

LCpl Emily McClean left The Ladies' College in 2016 to join the Royal Marines service.  She plays the French horn and is part of the RM Band Plymouth. The band members are fully trained operational military personnel who undertake a wide variety of ceremonial work of national importance, as well a…

Celebration of Music

The Celebration of Music at St Stephen’s Church on Tuesday 4th May 2021 saw a diverse programme of music performed by students of all ages and abilities.  

Senior Strings opened the evening with a rousing and highly competent rendition of Warlock’s ‘Basse Danse’ - a fitting opener for the occ…

Public Speaking competition students excel

On Tuesday 27th April, the final of the Monachan Memorial Trophy for public speaking was held in the Drama Studio.

There were four finalists, one from each of the classes in Upper Four. Lucy Clarke commenced this year’s final with her insightful talk entitled “Seven Hours and Twenty-two Minutes” …

Run a Marathon Challenge

Back in February and March our students and staff covered more than 14,000km in the TLC Virtual Challenge. This covered a distance from Guernsey, across Europe and Asia, almost reaching mainland Australia. Nearly 200 students and staff took part and used the challenge to motivate themselves to keep…

New Food Technology and photography facility opened

Pupils and students at The Ladies’ College will now benefit from a new Food Technology and photography darkroom facility, with the official opening of The Ellershaw Centre this week.

The newly renovated building is part of the continuing development of The Ladies’ College facilities, to provide a…

The Ladies’ College Recognised with National Wellbeing Award

We are delighted to become the first school in the Channel Islands to be awarded the ‘Wellbeing Award for Schools’, in recognition of its commitment to students’ and staff mental health and well-being. The Senior School recognition follows the success of the Junior School, Melrose, which was the fi…

Easter Netball camp

Now that “The Bailiwick Bubble” is back, The Ladies’ College is looking forward to hosting an Easter Holiday Netball Camp on the 6th and 7th April, for their prospective Year 6 students.

This is a wonderful opportunity to start the moving up process to senior school in an informal and relaxed set…

Lower Sixth Virtual Higher Education Event

On Wednesday 17th March students from the Lower Sixth took part in numerous virtual Higher Education events.

The morning started with students exploring information from the Careers Guernsey website before having a LIVE Q&A session hosted by Careers Guernsey with Bath, Cardiff and Chiche…

Women's Networking Virtual Event 2021

In honour of this year's IWD #ChooseToChallenge theme, we chose to seek out and celebrate the achievements of some of our alumnae and friends of the College by asking them to comment on something they have had to challenge since their time leaving the College.

Our Sixth Fo…

Lockdown cycle race success

One of our Upper Five students, Helena, has been doing some virtual cycle races via Zwift which is a Virtual cycling and running app that allows you to race and ride in a virtual cycling world on a smart trainer indoors. Each rider has an avatar and you are riding around with as many as 7000 thou…

IoD Directors of Tomorrow Announced

Two of our Upper Sixth students have been selected from a group of eight nominated to take part in the 2020 IoD Directors of Tomorrow initiative. Lucy and Elsie have been named as this year’s leading Directors of Tomorrow, along with another student from Blanchelande College. 

Mr Bolt, Economic…