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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

PE sporting success

The PE Dept were delighted to host U13 teams St. Michaels, Jersey last week.

It was a brilliant day of sport with hockey in the morning and netball in the afternoon. We have asked the girls involved to tell us more about each match.

Final scores and "Player of the Match" as voted by the oppos…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Remembrance Day Show and Tell

We concluded our period of Remembrance in College at lunchtime today with a First World War object handling session with a particular focus on the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry.  Mr McGovern demonstrated how the soldiers were prepared for battle with their provisions, their uniform and their we…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , HISTORY

Lower School Music Concert

Every November and May our lower school musicians provide an evening of musical entertainment. Tuesday 8th November musicians took to the stage to display their impressive skills.

Five girls in remove have been working since the start of term and performed ‘The Scientist’ by Coldplay. They receiv…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , MUSIC

Microsoft Showcase School 2022

We are thrilled to have been awarded Microsoft Showcase School status for the second year in a row. This status recognises the innovative use of technology, a student-centered approach, development of Future Ready skills and the expansion of Microsoft and Adobe training and qualifications. VR techn…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , MELROSE , JUNIOR SCHOOL , INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Melrose 150th beach art

This year The Ladies' College celebrates its 150th anniversary and to mark this amazing event Melrose girls aged from 2 ½ to 11 headed to Port Soif to create a gigantic piece of beach art.

This was the first time the whole school has all gone en masse for an outing. Preparations for this event …

NEWS  MELROSE

House Debating competition

On the last day of term before half term it was decided to hold the first Senior School House Debating Competition. Each House was represented by a team of speakers from across Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5. They had to work together to research and deliver an argument either in support …

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL

A day in the life of a Victorian School girl

Pupils from The Ladies’ College Junior School celebrated Victorian Day on Thursday 13 October by dressing up as 19th century school children and experiencing what it is like to live in a historic era. 

Pupils began their day arriving in Victorian school costumes with frills and gowns; the girls…

NEWS  MELROSE , JUNIOR SCHOOL , HISTORY

IoD Leadership Shadowing Final

The IoD Leadership Shadowing final took place last night at the offices of KMPG and was another proud success for The Ladies' College Sixth Form students.

16 students from The Ladies' College were placed in various industries and businesses across the island during the Easter and Summer holidays.…

NEWS  SIXTH FORM , SIXTH FORM ENRICHMENT

Off island trip to Stratford

On the 7th October, the English Department was able to take our Sixth Form Literature students to Stratford-Upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s birthplace. On Friday, students enjoyed a lecture by Dr Jennifer Waghorn on ‘Hamlet’ which helped to consolidate the students’ learning whilst enjoying the beautiful …

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , ENGLISH

IRIS award for The Ladies' College

The Ladies’ College has been presented with a Special Award for Community Impact from the Institute for Research in Schools (IRIS) following a number of pieces of student led independent research including the submission of a research project that resulted in reducing the school’s carbon footprint.…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , SCIENCE

Junior School playground upgrade

It is fabulous to see that our fantastic climbing frame has finally made it to us for the start of the new term in September 2022. Way back in 2019 at a PTA meeting it was decided that The College and the Melrose PTA would work together and combine their funds to install some new play equipment in …

NEWS  MELROSE , JUNIOR SCHOOL , FOREST SCHOOL , WELL-BEING

New Bursary offering

As part of its plans to celebrate 150 years since opening its doors, The Ladies’ College is delighted to announce it is establishing a bursary scheme, which will be open to students applying to join the school either in Year 7 or the Sixth Form from September 2023.

The College’s fundraising activ…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM

Principal's Senior School Assembly

On Friday 9th September, Principal Daniele Harford-Fox gave a speech to the Senior School following the sad news of the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

You can read the whole speech below:

Good morning everyone.

As you will now know, yesterday Queen Elizabeth II has sadly died. She was the longe…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM

GCSE results 2022

Students at The Ladies’ College have achieved impressive results for this year’s GCSE cohort and will now look ahead to the next stage of their education as they enter Sixth Form.

Over 63 students sat GCSE examinations in 21 subjects, this year, the first year to sit official exams since the begi…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL

A-level results 2022

With today’s A-level results, pupils from The Ladies’ College will now confidently look ahead to the next stage of their personal development.

The school’s pupils achieved almost 50% A*/A grades and a 100% pass rate. 

The past few years have been challenging with unprecedented changes in exams …

NEWS  SIXTH FORM , SIXTH FORM CAREERS