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Sovereign Art Foundation Winners

Last night, after months of hard work promoting and voting on exhibitions Island-wide, The Sovereign Art Foundation Guernsey held the Student Prize awards ceremony in the beautiful, festively decorated George Crossan Gallery in the Guernsey Market.

The Ladies' College Art Department are delighted…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , ART

Wellbeing Award for Schools

The Ladies’ College, Melrose are thrilled to announce that they have gained the ‘Wellbeing Award for Schools'. They are the first school in the Channel Islands to receive this award.

The award process took 12-15 months and focussed on detailed self-evaluations on what the school was already doing…

NEWS  MELROSE , JUNIOR SCHOOL

Collas Crill Moot Final

You may have heard of mooting and have heard the phrase "a moot point" but it is surprising how many people, even those who work in law, have no idea what a moot is. 

A moot is a competition where two pairs of "Advocates" argue a fictitious legal case against each other in front of a "Judge". Eac…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM

Lower Sixth student publishes book of poetry

The staff in the English Department are very proud of one of their sixth form students who has recently published her own book of poetry called Animus - which is Latin for mind, heart, spirit.  It is on sale on Amazon and she also has a dedicated Instagram account entitled emilyabreu.poetry which…

NEWS  SIXTH FORM , ENGLISH

Beauty and The Beast

The Ladies’ College presents ‘Beauty and the Beast’

Something magical is happening at The Ladies’ College this coming December, as they stage their production of ‘Beauty and the Beast’. The timeless fairy tale, brought to life with Disney music, is sure to have everyone joining in with their f…

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

Lower Sixth student selected for the U17 GB Fencing Squad

Lower Six student, Rachel, has been fencing sabre for six years and competing at a national level for the past four years. Last year she was invited to join the GB Athlete Development Programme and attend various training weekends in the UK with members of the GB sabre team. She finished last seaso…

NEWS  SIXTH FORM , PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Recent sixth form leaver receives bursary

One of our recent sixth form leavers has been selected as the recipient of the student bursary as she makes a start on her Economics degree at the University of Bath. Abigail was selected from five shortlisted applications to receive financial support towards her tuition fees as well as practical w…

NEWS  SIXTH FORM , SIXTH FORM CAREERS

Leicester Tigers visit The Ladies' College

Upper Four were treated to a training session from the Leicester Tigers community rugby coaches, Joe and Chris, who are visiting the island's schools this week.

The rain did not deter their enthusiasm as the coaches put them through their paces along with 2007 Rugby World Cup finalist Mat Tait…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , PHYSICAL EDUCATION

UK Sailing Competition

Two of our students Hannah and Bella are shown launching a firefly racing dinghy at Farmoor Reservoir in Oxfordshire, where they competed in the National Youth Team Racing Championships, sailing in around thirty races against many of the top sailors from schools across the UK. A third student, Jess…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Form III International Day of the Girl Assembly

Form III treated Melrose to an inspirational assembly about The International Day of The Girl which is on the 11th October. They explained about the history of the day, what it has achieved and who inspires them.

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SAFG STUDENT ART PRIZE GUERNSEY 2019.

The Ladies' College Art Department want to give you a gentle reminder that four of our amazingly talented Art students have been selected for the Public Vote in this year's Sovereign Art Foundation Guernsey 2019 Student Prize.

This week, the Finalists are being exhibited at The OSA

Pop-Up Shop …

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , JUNIOR SCHOOL , ART

Harvest Festival celebrations at Melrose

Last week the pupils of The Ladies' College, Melrose gathered together for their Harvest Assembly which Father Moore, from St Stephen's church, presided over. 

Form III and the Preparatory Department provided goods to make up lots of beautiful harvest baskets, which Form III then delivered to the…

NEWS  MELROSE , PRE-PREPARATORY

History Simulations

It’s been a week busy with simulation activities in the History Department. Upper 4 girls have been investigating international relations in the years leading up to the First World War by working in groups, each assigned a European power, and having to consider diplomatic responses to developments…

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Samba Workshop

As part of GCSE music students study world music, it is at this point we work in conjunction with visiting musicians. The Upper 5 music class were treated to a journey through Samba rhythms, starting a stopping performance and an exploration of the different instruments.

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Musicians from The La…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , MUSIC

Opera Workshop

Wednesday 25th September 6th form singers from The Ladies’ College, Elizabeth College and the Grammar School were treated to masterclasses run by OperaUpClose. Performing on the island they were able to spend time with our young musicians for 90 minutes where they passed on their expertise and …

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , MUSIC

UK Christian songwriter pays surprise visit to Sixth Form

Last Friday the Sixth Form was lucky enough to have a visit from the prolific Christian singer, songwriter Graham Kendrick.

"We weren’t told who was going to be speaking to us in our usual tutor time session and had to ask him questions to guess who he was and why he had come to speak to us. We s…

NEWS  SIXTH FORM , MUSIC

GCSE Results

54 students sat 530 GCSE examinations this year. 388 GCSE results were 7/8/9 (A/A*), with 303, almost 6 out of 10 results, being 9/8 (A*), 12.9% up on last year! Our students should be thrilled with what they have achieved individually and the fact that the cumulative results are better than last y…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM

GCE A-Level Results

We are delighted to report that the 50 Upper Sixth Ladies’ College students who took A–levels this year have done themselves, their parents, their teachers and the College proud. Once again, our students achieved a 100% pass rate. Of the grades achieved, 29.5% were A* and A, 61.1% were A* to B, …

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , SIXTH FORM CAREERS

College students going to Island Games in Gibraltar

We have several girls from College representing Guernsey at this year's Island Games which takes place in Gibraltar 6 - 12th July.

Competing in Athletics are Abi (200m, long jump, 4 x 100, 4 x 400), Jasmine(100m, 4 x 100) - not in photograph, Amelia (200m, 4 x 100, 4 x 400) and Sofia (triple jump…

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Alternative Curriculum Week

The day started at the Duke of Richmond Hotel with a lovely welcome from Sam and Rebecca who work for the Red Carnation Group and organised the whole day for the students. The first activity was based around customer service giving them an insight into how small things can make a big difference to …

NEWS  SENIOR SCHOOL , SIXTH FORM , SIXTH FORM CAREERS