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A-level Results

We are delighted to report that students of The Ladies’ College who took A–levels in 2018 have had another successful year. The 100% pass rate was achieved by 46 students who took the linear A-levels and who now have choices about following their immediate goals of work, university or a gap year. O…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , SIXTH FORM CAREERS

Michaelmas Term 2018

Thursday 6th September 2018

 

New Remove arrive for 08:30 and go to Form Rooms (photographs from 09:10)

Lower Four arrive for 09:30 and go to Form Rooms (photographs from 09:40)

Upper Four arrive for 10:00 and go to Form Rooms (photographs from 10:10)

Lower Five arrive for 10:30 a…

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TeenTech London

TeenTech is a science and technology competition which was held in London yesterday. The girls won through to the National final by being finalists in two categories - one of them was a sixth form only category. The girls won this prize out of 150 top students in the UK. In this category, they had …

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SCIENCE

International Women in Engineering Day

Upper Four students attended International Women in Engineering Day at the College of FE on Friday. Speeches were given by some incredible women engineers who inspired our students and showed them that there are many exciting and creative career opportunities within this field, with many opportuni…

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Remove Ecology

Remove Z are studying ecology this term and they've been on the hunt for mini-beasts in the school grounds. Today we found centipedes, millipedes, wasps, bees, ladybirds, maggots and an as yet unidentified fungus.

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Upper Sixth Leavers

As a small gift from our Leavers to the rest of the school on their last time-tabled day at College, to give us a mindful moment to enjoy, they provided a Petting Zoo.

Thank you ladies and good luck in your exams!

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NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , SIXTH FORM CAREERS

Lihou Island

Form III had a marvellous time staying overnight in Lihou Island with Mrs Dyer, Mrs Lowe and Mrs Morris. No-one wanted to come home!

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Form III Update

Form III has had a busy couple of weeks.

They have been to the German Occupation Museum and discovered what life was like in Guernsey in the Occupation.

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They have enjoyed 10 minutes of exercise every morning for active April and seen this have a big impact on their learning and emotional …

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Astrophysics

Upper Sixth Physics students made a crude telescope as part of their Astrophysics course using 2 lenses, a metre-rule, plasticine and grease-proof paper. As you can see, the image is inverted as it is when it hits the retina at the back of our eye - it's our brain that actually turns the image the…

NEWS  SIXTH FORM , SCIENCE

Factors that affect temperature

Lower Five made the most of the sunshine last Friday to find some of the factors that affect the temperature of an object, which included colour, type of material, angle from the ground and the direction it faces.

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Canaccord Tag Rugby Festival

Melrose entered 3 teams in the Canaccord 2018 Tag Rugby Festival and again showed that all girl teams can hold their own!

The Collins’ Cougars played brilliantly in the year3/4 tournament and won more games and scored more tries than ever before by a Melrose team in this age group. Coaches Liz Du…

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History 'Bake Off'

As the Upper Five complete their IGCSE History course, they wanted to mark the moment with a feast. So, inspired perhaps by Bake Off, this week the girls have created edible representations of the Berlin Wall. The models, featuring various aspects of the Wall which they'd researched including the …

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , HISTORY

Monachan Memorial Trophy

On Friday 16th March it was the final of our annual Monachan Memorial Trophy for public speaking. All of the Upper Fours have worked exceptionally hard on this unit of work, producing talks of a high quality and covering a diverse range of topics. The finalists were: Aimee Browning, Izzy Davidson,…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , ENGLISH

Spring Concert

This year’s spring concert was a huge success demonstrating the hard work and abilities of the girls performing music by Bach, Beatles and beyond.
 
Groups performing included junior motet, senior motet, junior choir, junior strings, senior strings, junior wind band, jazz band, q…
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Eisteddfod

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International Women's Day

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Friday 9th March

The Ladies’ College took the theme of International Women’s Day to their lessons on Thursday 8th March in various activities around the College.

Removes have started a new topic in History investigating the position of women in the 17th century.  Legally, …

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , MELROSE , PRE-PREPARATORY

Duke Of Edinburgh with Form III

Form III have been continuing with their introduction to Duke Of Edinburgh with Mrs Morris, Renee Hubert and Miss Mitchinson. This week we have made scrambled eggs and put up and stowed away tents.

Beatrice exclaimed that she had never enjoyed scrambled eggs so much before and Olivia was delighte…

NEWS  MELROSE , DUKE OF EDINBURGH

Weather Updates

Dear Parents and Students,

Due to frosty conditions today and likely weather conditions overnight and into tomorrow, The Ladies’ College will be closed on Thursday (1st March).

Colleagues have been asked to prioritise their examination classes in the setting of work. Senior and Sixth Form stu…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , MELROSE , PRE-PREPARATORY

Introduction to Duke of Edinburgh

Form III in Melrose had an interesting afternoon last week learning how to use trangia stoves to cook hot chocolate and make pancakes. This is part of their introduction to Duke of Edinburgh and survival skills work with Mrs Morris and Miss Mitchinson. 

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Art in Schools

The Ladies' College Art Department are absolutely delighted again this term to have the privilege of being a part of the “Art in Schools” project, where rare and valuable original artworks by famous artists are being loaned to local schools to be enjoyed by everyone.

We have the absolute honour t…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , ART