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World Famous Visiting Author, Steward Foster

The author Stewart Foster visited College on Wednesday March 29th, 2023, to speak to Remove and Lower Four students about his writing process. ‘Checkmates’ is a popular class reader in Form III in Melrose and was familiar to the students. His other books are aimed at older readers, his recent book …

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , ENGLISH , LIBRARY

Student Robotics 2023

Travis the robot was built by two Sixth Form students back in 2016  to compete in the Student Robotics competition,  an international competition for Sixth form students held each year in the UK. That year they came second and won the Rookie Award for best newcomer.

This year we have been adaptin…

NEWS  SIXTH FORM , MATHS

Melrose French Eisteddfod

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…

NEWS  MELROSE , JUNIOR SCHOOL , MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Student Drama Trip

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…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM

Melrose Drama Production 2023

WELCOME TO DULOC!

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…

NEWS  MELROSE , DRAMA

Senior School Spring Concert

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’…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , MUSIC

The Principal's Podcast

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…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , WELL-BEING , PSHEE , SIXTH FORM ENRICHMENT

Supporting Neurodiversity week

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…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , MELROSE , JUNIOR SCHOOL , WELL-BEING , PSHEE

Chinese New Year in Pre-Prep

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 …

NEWS  PRE-SCHOOL , PRE-PREPARATORY

Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

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…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , ART , HISTORY

Junior Gymnastics

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.

NEWS  MELROSE , JUNIOR SCHOOL , PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Upper Four House Bake Off!

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…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

Melrose French

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…

NEWS  MELROSE , JUNIOR SCHOOL

Senior School Drama Production "Taking Centre"

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 …

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , DRAMA

Collas Crill MOOT 2022

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…

NEWS  SIXTH FORM , SIXTH FORM CAREERS , SIXTH FORM ENRICHMENT

Appointment of new Headteacher of Melrose

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. 

NEWS  MELROSE

Art students success in The Sovereign Art Foundation final

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…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , ART

London Art Trip

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…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , ART , PHOTOGRAPHY

Creative donation to Repair Café

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…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , ART

The 'mean girls' myth

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…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , WELL-BEING , PSHEE