Welcome to Palmers Green High School Winchmore Hill
Palmers Green High School (PGHS), founded in 1905 by Miss Alice Hum, has provided girls with an exceptional education for over 115 years. At PGHS we specialise in educating girls, challenging and guiding them to achieve their full potential within our warm and friendly school environment. We are a very special ‘through-school’ where pupils progress in a familiar setting and benefit from seamless transitions across the Prep, Junior and Senior Schools. There is an authentic feeling of being one family where strong friendships are formed and extend beyond year groups.
A School Experience Like No Other
At PGHS, all sections of the school (Preps, Juniors and Seniors) enjoy being part of our ‘one school’ community. Preps use the same facilities as the GCSE pupils in some subjects, e.g. Art, Music, PE and D&T, and Juniors enjoy Science in the laboratories. Throughout PGHS, small class sizes and excellent teaching enable rapid progress, whilst exciting extra-curricular activities encourage girls to develop into well-rounded individuals.
Extra Curricular
Recognising the importance of developing well-rounded individuals, we offer an exciting programme of extra-curricular activities. PGHS takes every opportunity to nurture your daughter’s passions and develop her skills, providing over 80 clubs per week.
Our 11+ Entrance and Scholarship Examinations are taking place on Saturday 16 November 2024.
If you are interested in your daughter joining our Year 7 September 2025 class, find out more about our 11+ admissions process and register online at:
www.pghs.co.uk/admissions/11-admissions-at-pghs
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Our Year 4 class had a great day today, as they continued learning about the Ancient Egyptians. This morning they made sarcophagi and headdresses, and then the girls even mummified a tomato! This afternoon, they enjoyed creating their own bookmarks.
Year 4 particularly loved dressing up and doing their own Egyptian makeup too!
#egyptianhistory #historylesson #ancientegypt #ancientegyptians
We warmly welcome you to join us at our next Working Open Morning if you are looking for a Reception or Year 7 September 2025 place or an occasional place in any year group across our Lower and Senior School.
Register online today!
Our Year 1 girls were inspired by the amazing artwork of the British artist, Sir Frank Bowling. They learnt about his life and his different styles of painting. The girls were particularly excited by his poured paintings and so they decided to create their own. Excellent artwork Year 1.
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At PGHS, we have celebrated Black History Month by promoting and celebrating the contributions of those with African and Caribbean heritage. The theme this year is ‘Reclaiming Narratives’ with a great focus on untold stories of those who are significant in Black British History. The focus words we looked at were: inspiration, resistance and change.
Our Black History Month assembly was held this week, in which we shone a spotlight on contributions from individuals across our school of African and Caribbean heritage specifically in art, music and literature. It was a wonderful assembly and we thank everyone who was involved in making it so special.
We will continue to celebrate the histories and stories of many remarkable people in Black British History throughout the year.
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We have an inspirational learning environment in the Prep Department at PGHS, where the emphasis is on making learning fun!
If you’re looking for a Reception 2025 place for your daughter, we welcome you to book a Reception Assessment today.
Call us on 020 8886 1135 or complete our online form:
www.pghs.co.uk/admissions/enquiry-form
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It was very exciting to hear our Year 7 pupils perform in the first PGHS Year 7 Concert.
Part of the concert was a culmination of the work each class has been doing in their music lessons since the beginning of the academic year. Pupils sang songs on a theme of friendship as a whole year group, making a committed and joyful sound. Many pupils also performed solo or in small groups, and the standard of all performances was extremely high. Congratulations to everyone who took part.
#schoolconcert #schoolmusicconcert #schoolmusiclessons #thesegirlscan
Our PE department was delighted to take part in the Enfield Borough Cross Country competition @fortyhall on Friday. Well done to our Year 5 and Year 6 team who represented our school and ran very well in the slippery conditions. Congratulations to Alice who came 26th out of over 130 runners.
#crosscountryschoolcompetition #crosscountryrunning #thesegirlscan
In their History lessons, our Year 2 class has loved learning about some amazing influential female figures. One of their favourites has been Emmeline Pankhurst. The girls have learnt an interesting fact that the Suffragettes used to meet on the site where our school now stands!
It is now 106 years since women were of given the right to vote and our Year 2 girls have loved celebrating this!
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It was a pleasure to welcome parents to our Year 6 class assembly this morning. The class performed their own version of Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, using modern language and a sprinkling of famous quotes and dialogue.
The girls thoroughly enjoyed taking on the different roles and certainly got into character for an unforgettable performance. They carefully crafted some jokes to add humour and irony into the play and had a lot of fun along the way.
Well done to Year 6 for an excellent assembly and for devising their own costumes and props to help the play come to life.
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Year 3 has been learning about Mountains in their Geography lessons. The girls worked in their Houses to complete a challenge, sorting activities that would/would not be possible in a mountain environment.
They used a Talking Ring to make sure that everyone in the team had the chance to speak and share their ideas. The rule is that only the person holding the ring can speak at any time. It’s a great way to learn!
#talkingrings #geographylesson #oracyskills #oracyeducation #oracy
We had a wonderful visit today from children’s author, @lisawilliamsonauthor. Lisa talked to Years 4, 5 and 6 about her Bigg School series. She spoke about her inspiration for the books, her childhood and aspirations, her background in acting and how much she loves being a children’s author! Lisa read extracts from the books, beautifully bringing to life the characters in each one.
Lisa stayed for a book signing session and copies of all of the books are now available in the school library for everyone to enjoy. Several of our girls couldn’t wait to start reading the new books at lunchtime today!
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