Princess Helena College

Selected girls from Years 7, 8 and 9 visited the British Library to take part in two research workshops, which included a study of the wonderful Royal Manuscript exhibition, currently being shown.

Boarding House Starts BSA Award

This term, PHC's younger boarders have begun to work towards the new Boarding Skills Award. This is a scheme launched by the Boarding Schools' Association which recognises many of the important soft skills learnt in a boarding setting, such as team work, leadership and compromise.

PHC is one of only ten boarding schools in the UK which are involved in piloting the scheme and Year 7 and 8 boarders have been busy tackling their first challenges with great enthusiasm.

Any Questions Debate at PHC

Princess Helena College and Preston Trust were delighted to host Radio 4's live discussion show, Any Questions, on Friday 6 January.

The evening was chaired by Jonathan Dimbleby and the guests were Lionel Barber, Editor of the Financial Times, Constance Briscoe, barrister and writer, Jesse Norman MP and author of The Big Society and Stephen Twigg, Shadow Secretary of State for Education.

BBC RADIO 4 "ANY QUESTIONS"

BBC RADIO 4 “ANY QUESTIONS” COMES TO PHC

We look forward to welcoming parents and guests to school this evening to participate in the live coverage of the BBC Radio 4 programme, “Any Questions”. You can hear Any Questions every Friday at 20:02 and repeated on Saturday at 13:10.

Jonathan Dimbleby will present a panel discussion of news and politics from the College, with Stephen Twigg, Shadow Secretary of State for Education; Lionel Barber, Editor of the Financial Times; Jesse Norman, Conservative MP and author of The Big Society; and Constance Briscoe, barrister and author of memoirs Ugly and Beyond Ugly.

CHIPS charity donation

The Parents' Fundraising Committee was delighted to present a cheque for over £1,600 to the CHIPS charity today.

Happy Christmas

Christmas festivities during the last week of term were great fun for all. We have enjoyed being with Year 7 as they distributed their Secret Santa gifts and having a traditional photo under the Christmas tree. Staff and girls were treated to an amazing House Dance Display of exquisite performances choreographed by the girls. Each and every one was just wonderful to watch and we congratulate the girls on all their hard work. We also thank Mrs Newland and Mrs Mehew for all their support and help in making this such an enjoyable end of term activity for us all to share. Year 7 entertained the rest of the school with their plays and thanks go to Miss Pollard for all her endeavours.

Christmas Lunch was superb and we thank our catering team for treating us so very well.

We ended our term on Wednesday 14 December with our Carol Service at St Mary's Church and we take this opportunity of wishing everyone a very Happy Christmas and look forward to seeing you all return in 2012.
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