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Island Youth Games

After weeks of practising and training, children in Year 5 and 6 celebrated their day of competitions and enjoyed a fantastic closing ceremony at Footes Lane.

If you look carefully at the team photos, you will see some smiling faces from Form II and III at Melrose. 

Dame Mary Perkins and Graham…

NEWS  MELROSE , PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Form III at Safety Calling

Form III had a great time at the Safety Calling Challenge at St Saviours Community Centre, learning not only how to stay safe but also having great fun.

They enjoyed 7 different scenarios including water safety, fire safety, road safety, Internet safety, how to give CPR, cycle safety and kitchen …

NEWS  MELROSE

Team work and Creativity!

Pre-Preparatory Week Six: 29th May - 2nd June

Pre-Prep have had a wonderful week, working together and creating true master pieces. The beans designed and created a HUGE tower with all sorts of blocks and even used problem solving to get the building as high as they could. More excitement wh…

NEWS  PRE-PREPARATORY

Fun in the sun!!

Pre-Preparatory Week Five: 22nd - 26th May

We have loved having the sun shining and lovely warm weather this week. The girls have been out constantly this week, which you might think is nothing unusual, however having the sun shining makes everything even more exciting!! They have had a wonderf…

NEWS  PRE-PREPARATORY

Upper Sixth Leavers

Friday 26th May was Upper Sixth's last day in College. The sun shone and we had a great day celebrating their time with us. We started the day with a year group breakfast, followed by a cake cutting and a wonderful poem composed by Mrs Clancy especially for the girls.

We wish them all the very be…

NEWS  SIXTH FORM , SIXTH FORM CAREERS

Beach Fun!

Pre-Preparatory Week Four: 15th - 19th May

Pre-Prep were joined by Form 2 on a fantastic beach trip, each group had a Pea, a Bean and two Form 2's. It started a little wet as we had a small shower of rain, however this didn't dampen the excitement, and soon the sun came out. The girls loved roc…

NEWS  PRE-PREPARATORY

Visit to the Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden

Middle Prep went to the Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden yesterday. We had a fantastic time and were not put off by the persistent rain. Janine and Pierre helped us to plant two different types of beans. After that we looked at the seeds of various plants and had a tour of the garden.

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NEWS  MELROSE

Growing, Snails and Blocks!

Pre-Preparatory Week Three: 8th - 12th May

The girls were excited to see this week that our potatoes and lettuce plants have both grown.  Some of our friends are becoming incredibly adventurous with some block creations. However on Friday we had some slippery guests in to play, we had snails ev…

NEWS  PRE-PREPARATORY

A Busy Buzzing time!

Pre-Preparatory Week Two: 1st - 5th May

Pre-prep were lucky to have been invited by Vice Admiral and Lady Corder to visit the bee hives at Government House. On Friday we all set off very excitedly suited and booted and ready to learn about bees. We were welcomed by Lady Corder and Mr Gary. Mr G…

NEWS  PRE-PREPARATORY

Young Enterprise Awards

Congratulations to all of the Sixth Form students who took part in the Young Enterprise Awards last night.

All four teams; 3Rs, Dare, Silex and Supernova did a fantastic job presenting their YE journey to an audience of sponsors, advisors, teachers, family and friends. Congratulations to Louisa…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM

Upper Prep - making toys

Upper Prep have been making toys from old hats and gloves - and stuffing them with old tights!

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NEWS  MELROSE

World Aid Walk 2017

The Ladies’ College were pleased to be able to represent the Save the Children charity at the World Aid Walk, 1st May 2017 and would like to congratulate anyone and everyone who was involved in any way. In spite of very difficult weather conditions walkers, performers and volunteers helped raise…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , MUSIC

Sun shining for the first week back!

Pre-Preparatory Week One: 24th - 28th April 

Everyone was very excited to be back this week. We had a lot of fun, music playing, playing on and with the new additions to the garden, lots of creativity happening indoors and out and rounded off the week hunting for bumble bees during Forests sc…

NEWS  PRE-PREPARATORY , FOREST SCHOOL

Final week and Spring is here!!

Final week of Lent Term

We have had a fun filled week this week. We started the week with a play swim followed by the afternoon watching the Junior production of Alice in Wonderland - which was fantastic and the girls loved it.

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On Tuesday we celebrated a VERY special birthday and celebr…

NEWS  PRE-PREPARATORY

Middle Prep

We  loved making our Easter chicks in Middle Prep. Poppy's Grandma came to our class to help us with the sewing.

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NEWS  MELROSE

Physics "Cake Off"

Upper Five 1 finished learning the IGCSE Physics syllabus last week, so we decided that now was a good a time as any to have a "Physics Cake-Off"!


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Jade Irish created "Abstract Physics", a model of the universe complete with …

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SCIENCE

Spring Music Concert

Tuesday 21st March was the annual Spring concert by the music department.

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The highlight of the musical calendar and we were not disappointed.

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NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL

Prep Preparatory

Week 12 in Pre-Prep - Yippee Sunshine!

Pre-Prep have made the most of the dry weather this week, and even managed some of the days without coats outside! Summer must be coming.

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The beans have been thinking about the sound 'j' and so we enjoyed some tasty toast and jam, kindly prov…

NEWS  MELROSE , PRE-PREPARATORY

Primary schools Island Netball tournament

The 29th March saw 9 Melrose girls compete in the Primary schools Island Netball tournament, this year they were placed in the 'Big' schools tournament so had to play some very hard games.

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The girls played really well and should be pleased with the improvement they have made since the s…

NEWS  MELROSE

Harry Potter Potions Lesson

Last week, year 5 students from Vauvert were invited to a Harry Potter Potions lesson in the Science Department.

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NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL