Lantern Workshop

Some Remove and Lower Four students have been attending a Lantern workshop with Miss Clements, in preparation for the Guernsey lantern Parade in March. The Lanterns are starting to take shape now...

Mud castles, muddy puddles and tree climbing!

This week has been lovely dry however bitterly cold at times, but when you are dressed in an explorer suit you would never know!! The girls this week have managed to create the most amazing deep muddy puddle, and then managed to use the mud to create a castle! Some of the girls explored in the tre…

Playing with words to paint a picture

Form III have been exploring personification and the use of similes and metaphors to describe weather. They have been amazed by how effective this can be to create a more vivid picture for the reader. 

They completed this by producing some stunning impressionist art to complement their writing.

Form III English work

Form III have been working hard to research a famous person and then write a fascinating biography. We have worked hard to include interesting facts, quotes and graphics.

Where else will you find Mary Berry side by side with Hitler?  

Please do come over and have a read, we think they are f…

New Skills and Exploring

Monday 16th - Friday 20th January

This week has sent us a challenge of wintery temperatures outside. Nothing stops the adventures in Pre-Prep. A number of the girls this week have shown a fantastic  Growth Mindset, trying and finally achieving a new skill. We decided it would be a good plan …

Week 2 in Pre-Prep - We love Outdoors

Monday 9th - Friday 13th January

This week we spent a lot of time outside, playing the secret path game. We also realised that our strawberry plant was still flowering so we weeded the bed and removed any dead leaves, and had a tidy up in the growing area. We celebrated a very special birthday.…

Primary Schools Gymnastics

32 girls from 6 primary schools participated in The Ladies' College Primary Schools Gymnastics competition this Tuesday. Each girl performed 2 jumps from the trampette or spring board and a tumble including 3 - 6 skills. Everyone who took part did extremely well to perform in a friendly, competitiv…

Ilex 2016

The latest Ilex magazine is now published and can be accessed . We hope that you will looking through it, agree that the Upper Sixth team responsible for putting it together, led by Maninda Singh, have done an excellent job. Our girls are involved in a very great many things in the course of…

Hockey match with St Teresa's

On Monday 16th January The Ladies' College welcomed St Teresa's who were touring from the UK and enjoyed playing 2 matches against their Under 14 team.

The Ladies' College U14 team had a tough game and defended excellently to keep to a 0-0 draw.

After school The Ladies' College Under 15 te…

Upper Sixth English Visit : Aphra Behn's 'The Rover'

Upper Sixth English students from The Ladies College attended a first class production of 'The Rover' with a pupil workshop in January this year with Mrs King and Mr Swann in attendance.

'Masquerading! A lewd custom to deba…

A Magical Time of the Year!

Monday 12th December - Friday 16th December

This week has been the most magical (if not a little busy) time of the year. Here is the count down to the end of term with Pre-prep!!

Monday:

Form III team work project

We worked in teams to find out more about Guernsey and develop out team work skills.

First we had to brainstorm as many local attractions and icons connected to Guernsey as we could. We had to find a way to include all the group and help the less vocal be heard and the noisier team members improv…

House Christmas Quiz

On Tuesday 13^th

The girls were split into 8 teams of mixed ages and they competed against each other in a variety of rounds which included quiz questions about pantomimes, carols…

Christmas Fayre

Thank you to everyone for the incredible effort that you all put into your stalls. It was a wonderfully festive event.. and over £ 3,000 has been raised!

Here are the results of awards- prizes will be delivered to your form the first week in the new term.

Firstly, the best dressed stall holders…

Carols for the Cheshire home residents

Form III had a wonderful morning yesterday at the Cheshire Home; we sang carols together, played handbells and Mimi played her bassoon. The residents and staff loved joining us and we appreciated their deeper tones adding to our melodies. Then we had drinks and biscuits and best of all- the chance …

Festive Art Competition

This morning JR took part in a class festive art competition. They were given a whole range of materials from fabric and wheels to cardboard strips and pipe cleaners. I gave them a theme of "reindeers" and then they really enjoyed getting creative! The girls thought it wouldn't be fair if I judged…

Melrose Christmas Fair

On Saturday Melrose Hall was alive with the sound of laughter and christmas music. It was the Melrose Christmas Fair. The girls and parents had created the most amazing stalls with such brilliant imaginations, from "Help i'm a Melrose Girl, get me out of here", lots of gunk to stick your hands in, …

Hand Bell Team

Our newly-formed Remove hand bell team are pictured performing on Saturday at the walled Victorian garden in Saumarez Park. The team has already performed twice at Festiva's Christmas Concerts at St. James and you can hear them again at the College Carol Service. 

A visit to the Library in town

On Thursday the whole Prep Department went to town to visit the library for Christmas stories and Crafts.

We made paper gingerbread men/ladies tree hangings and heard lots of funny stories about Santa getting the cold, Santa Pants needing the Aliens to help him deliver the presents with the Alien…

Meet the Author - Stone de Rouffignac

I was very happy to accept Ms Richardson's invitation to host a "Meet the Author" session at the College. It having been more than three years since I retired and left the island, I was very impressed with the new building and the attractive library.

I spoke to two groups of students about the wr…