Welcome to Palmers Green High School Winchmore Hill
The Sunday Times Parent Power guide’s Independent 11-16 Secondary School of the Year, Palmers Green High School (PGHS) was founded in 1905 by Miss Alice Hum and has provided girls with an exceptional education for 120 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.
It was wonderful to welcome Charlotte Sollars back to PGHS yesterday. Charlotte came to talk to Years 8, 9 and 10 about her language journey and gave them some tips for their GCSEs.
Charlotte attended PGHS from 2017 to 2022. After that she went on to study Politics, French and English A Levels at Woodhouse College and she is now studying French and English at the University of Leeds.
Charlotte said it was so lovely to come back and see everyone. She loves French and said that studying it at A Level and university has been a very enjoyable experience. She would recommend that all our GCSE language pupils consider studying a language at A Level!
#alumnavisit #frenchstudies #expupilsvisit
This week Ellie, our Year 6 Music Prefect, performed the violin to the Reception class to inspire them to join our Prep Violin Club. The Reception girls loved Ellie’s visit and listening to her play.
#extracurriculumactivities #schoolmusic #prepschool
Life in the Preps at PGHS is great! We have an inspirational learning environment where the emphasis is on making learning fun.
If you’re looking for a Reception 2025 place for your daughter, we welcome you to attend our forthcoming Reception events to discover more about life in the Reception class at PGHS.
For more information visit:
www.pghs.co.uk/reception-2025-events
#preps #reception2025 #schoolevents #northlondonindependentschool
Joining Reception marks the start of an exciting new chapter. Our Reception 2025 events are a great opportunity for you and your daughter to discover more about life in the Reception class at PGHS.
Our parent talk ‘Getting Ready for Reception - How to Help Your Child’ is taking place on Wednesday 5 February at 4.30pm. Led by our Reception class teacher, the talk is designed to provide parents with useful tips for getting their child ready for starting ‘big school’ in September. It will be followed by a Q&A session and a tour of our facilities. Register online today: www.pghs.co.uk/reception-2025-events
#reception2025 #receptionclass #startingreception #northlondonindependentschool #northlondonprepschool #receptionevents
Happy New Year to our PGHS families. We hope you had an enjoyable break.
We are delighted to welcome our pupils back to school today. We look forward to sharing an exciting and successful Spring Term together.
#springterm #springterm2025 #welcomeback #backtoschool #northlondonindependentschool
On Friday 13th December we were welcomed in by St John’s Parish Church (Bourne Hill N13) as we held our annual #carolservice. The Church was filled with parents and friends of PGHS and the festivity of the #Christmas season was fully demonstrated as all girls sang beautifully to the school hymns.
May we take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Palmers Green High School
With full hearts, we say farewell today to Miss Hannah Lucas, Deputy Head of PGHS. For over 19 incredible years, Miss Lucas has been a pillar of unwavering support for PGHS and its pupils.
Miss Lucas began her journey with PGHS initially joining as a Supply teacher in the Lower School. She went on to become a Reception class teacher, a Year 6 teacher and later an Assistant Head, before earning the role of Deputy Head in 2019.
Throughout her time at PGHS, Miss Lucas has embraced numerous other responsibilities, including PSHEE and Careers Teacher, Safeguarding Leader, Pastoral Lead, and has been an active PFA staff representative.
Her boundless energy and enthusiasm for all things PGHS is truly infectious—she’s always been the first to inspire pupils and staff to embrace the spirit of events such as World Book Day, Odd Socks Day, and Christmas Jumper Day, to name just a few! She has always enjoyed a school trip and has been on many ski trips and Gilwell Park visits over the years.
Miss Lucas will be missed by all of us, and we wish her lots of happiness in the future.
Everyone at PGHS wishes you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We hope our PGHS families, friends, alumni, neighbours and local community have a wonderful Christmas break.
#schoolchristmas #christmas2024
This morning, Year 10 led ‘The Trial of Santa Claus’ debate with the Senior School pupils as the jury.
Santa was accused of being guilty of The Seven Deadly Sins. Witnesses for the prosecution included an Elf supervisor, who had worked for Santa for 79 years! Accusations were thrown like snowballs! The jury unanimously found Santa innocent.
#christmasdebate
This morning’s assembly was a wonderful whole school celebration of achievement, with lots of prizes, medals and certificates presented to many pupils across our school.
The House Points Cup was awarded to the Green House for attaining the highest number of house points this term. Congratulations to everyone in the Green House for their collective hard work.
#celebration #success #thesegirlscan #housepointscup
So excited to be wearing our sparkly Christmas jumpers to school today! ✨
#christmasjumperday #schoolchristmasjumperday
Our whole school Performing Arts Assembly was a fantastic celebration of musical talent across the school.
A big congratulations to all of our pupils who performed so brilliantly. It was a perfect start to our festive celebrations today.
One of the highlights was the joyous singalong to The Twelve Days of Christmas, which everyone participated in. So much fun was had by all!
#performingartsassembly #musicaltalent #thesegirlscan #schoolchristmas
