Students at The Ladies’ College have again achieved impressive results for this year’s GCSE examinations.
69 students sat GCSE examinations in 21 subjects, this year with 46% of all results being at an A* level (Grade 8 or 9) and 98% being at an A*-C level.
The girls demonstrated the breadth of…
The Ladies’ College is delighted with another year of strong results with over a third of the pupils achieving A*/A grades and two-thirds of the results being A*-B, both higher than the 2019 examination results.
87% of students were also accepted at their chosen universities and will head off to …
On Thursday, 22nd June, The Ladies’ College English Department hosted the inaugural A Midsummer Eve English Celebration. Held on The Ladies’ College Lawn, The Department welcomed students, parentsand staff to listen to a variety of creative work, ranging from powerful speeches, enriched with skillf…
As part of our 150th celebrations, a commission has been written and performed. The music department has been working with Amy Summers to produce this new work and students have been involved in contributing ideas. The lyrics were sent to Amy and form part of the final piece.
Amy is a British com…
Dear Upper Sixth students,
It's here..... Leavers Day, and I can sense the emotions running high within us all. We may try to appear cool and collected, or not, but deep down, we know that today marks the end of an era.
As we reflect on your Senior School years, it's hard not to feel sentimenta…
Performance 5th May
To many people, it is instantly recognisable as the theme music to the Champion’s League, but Handel’s Zadok the Priest was written for the coronation of King George III in 1727, and it was such a hit that it has been included in every subsequent British coronation.
Here at …
The next episode of our podcast, The Principal's Office, is out now.
In this episode, we talk about the themes surrounding 'fear of failure' and some of our personal experiences.
Students Heidi and Freya discuss how boldness and bravery in the face of unknown territory can be beneficial in so m…
On Friday 31st March, the final of the Monachan Memorial Trophy for public speaking was held in the Drama Studio, marking the 11th year of this prestigious College competition.
There were six finalists, two from each of the classes. Anni commenced this year’s final with her thoughtful and nat…
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 …
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…
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’…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
