Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

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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 challeng…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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.…
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…
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…
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…
We look forward to welcoming your daughter back in September. As always, we stagger the start of the first day. Should you daughter need to arrive earlier than her start time, please contact her Year Co-ordinator before 8th September.
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Sic transit gloria mundi; you can look it up for yourself. It seems both an apt and poignant phrase as we bid farewell, to Miss Geach as our longest serving member of staff. I was going to write the 'place' of Latin within our curriculum, but that would be wrong because, as Miss Geach has often o…
On my first day, it was clear that this was an authentic and grounded place. I was surrounded by a smorgasboard of different individuals, but at the same time, there was a strong …