Category: Whole School News
Buckingham Palace
Form VI had a fantastic day at Buckingham Palace, exploring a special exhibition about Queen Victoria and the Royal Mews, where they admired the four ton Gold State Coach. The girls were complimented on their exemplary behaviour.
Summer Club 2019
What an exciting two weeks we’ve had in Summer Club 2019. During our fun-packed first week we enjoyed craft work and activities on the following topics: Hedgehogs and Owls, Seaside, Mini Beasts, Sports Day and Superheroes and Pirates. We also enjoyed water play in the sprinkler, talent shows, party games, indoor and outdoor play with…
Henry Moore Foundation
We spent a lovely sunny day at the Henry Moore foundation learning about the artist and his works. One of the highlights was a chance to view an exhibition of his drawings. We were particularly keen to see his drawings made during his time as a war artist. The girls had a guided tour around…
ISA Draw Your School Competition
Jennie – Form VI – Second place KS2 We were very excited to learn that Jennie’s beautiful pen and ink drawing of St Hilda’s won second place in the recent ‘Draw Your School’ Competition. Well done to Jennie!
Form I News 21st June 2019
We have had another fun filled week this week, culminating in Rosie being Headmistress for the day on Friday. Rosie decided that we could all wear non-uniform for a donation to Child Bereavement UK. We were also treated to a packet of Haribo each – thank you Rosie!. Lunchtime brought another treat… Chocolate sponge with…
Art Success at Ayot
Congratulations to a member of Form VI for taking the first prize in the Ayot St Lawrence Children’s Art competition at the weekend. The theme for the competition was ‘Summer Holidays’ and the pupil created a lovely piece or artwork incorporating painting and collage techniques. Our Form VI pupil was presented with her prize at…
Royal Academy Art Show Success
Many congratulations to Hannah in Form III who has had a piece of work accepted for the Young Artists Summer Show at the Royal Academy in London. We are all really excited about such an achievement. Hannah’s work called ‘dropped ice cream’ hung in the RA’s Young Artists’ Summer Show between 13 July and 4 August…
Cranedale Trip
The girls in Form V enjoyed a wonderful week at the Cranedale Centre in North Yorkshire at the end of May. Activities included orienteering, birdwatching on the cliffs, rock pool scavenge, stream dipping and river observations, exploring the moors and games. We learnt about rock formations and adaptations of animals and plants to habitats. We…
Grafham Water
Form IV had a fantastic three days at our Grafham Water residential. We challenged ourselves and had fun at the same time.
Hatfield House Trip
We had a lovely day at Hatfield House. The day began with a quick photo shoot under the amazing wisteria growing near to the Palace. We then had a tour of the house. We sat at the banqueting table in the Great Hall an saw the Rainbow Portrait of Queen Elizabeth 1. On our way…
