Welcome to Palmers Green High School Winchmore Hill
The Sunday Times Parent Power Guide’s Independent 11-16 School of the Year for Academic Excellence 2026, 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.
Our Performing Arts Assembly was an incredible celebration of musical talent across our Lower and Senior school! A huge well done to all our amazing pupils who performed so brilliantly. 🎶
One of the standout moments was the joyful singalong of The Twelve Days of Christmas, with everyone joining in. So much festive fun!
The assembly concluded with Year 11 leading Jingle Bells and the entire school singing along. What a finale!
#performingartsassembly #musicaltalent #thesegirlscan
We all enjoyed a delicious Christmas lunch today, lovingly prepared by our amazing in-house catering team @accentcatering.
The dining room was full of laughter as Christmas crackers were pulled, jokes were shared, and everyone soaked up the festive spirit.
A truly wonderful way to come together and celebrate the season! 🎄
#schoolchristmaslunch #festivefun #christmascelebration
Congratulations to our Most Festive Outfit competition winners! The PGHS elves were absolutely amazed by all the fabulous, creative and sparkly outfits seen around the school today! 💫
A huge thank you to everyone who joined in - the effort, creativity and Christmas sparkle across the school were incredible!
#christmascompetition #mostfestiveoutfit
Our pupils and staff are absolutely buzzing with excitement today as wear their sparkly Christmas jumpers and fabulously festive outfits for #christmasjumperday!
From twinkling sweaters to cheerful accessories, the whole school is glowing with festive spirit.
It’s wonderful to see everyone coming together to celebrate, spread joy, and sprinkle a little extra sparkle around the school. ✨
All donations from today will be given to our charity partner @cookingchampions.
#christmasjumperday2025 #christmasjumpers #festiveoutfits #schoolcharityfundraiser
Our Year 6 Reading Ambassadors hosted a fun festive treasure hunt in the library for our junior pupils!
Teams followed clever clues hidden in books, unscrambled letters, and tried to uncover which teacher had dressed up as a mischievous elf to steal all the chocolate!
We’re afraid there’s no escaping Mrs Fowler! 🍫
#readforpleasure #readingambassadors #christmasfun
Last term, pupils in our Junior School were invited to take part in the @bbc 500 Words - a short story writing competition.
We’re delighted to share the wonderful news that Valentina (Yr 3), Simran (Yr 5) and Zehra (Yr 6) have made it through to the next stage of the competition!
The @readingagency receives tens of thousands of entries from across the UK, with only around 5,000 stories progressing to the next round of judging. Having three of our pupils selected is a fantastic achievement, and we’re incredibly proud of them.
We now eagerly await January, when we’ll find out whether they have reached the shortlisted stage. Well done, girls - we’re cheering you on!
#thesegirscan #writingcompetition #bbc #bbc500words #bbc500words2025 #bbc500wordscompetition
To celebrate European Authors Day 2025, Madame Parry-Garnaud hosted a fun lunchtime reading session for Year 3 and Year 4 in the library! 📚
She chose the hilarious Caca Boudin by Stéphanie Blake to enjoy with the girls - reading in French and translating the best bits so everyone could follow the cheeky little rabbit’s antics. The translated title certainly explains all the laughter that took place in our library that day!
#europeanauthorsday #readforpleasure #readingunitesus
Our Year 7 pupils have been getting into the Christmas spirit today by exploring French festive traditions - from singing chants de Noël and cracking Christmas vocabulary codes to enjoying a delicious petit déjeuner Français.
A wonderful way to celebrate the end of their first term in the Senior School!
#frenchchristmastraditions
Our Prep classes lit up the stage last Friday with a fabulous Nativity production, beautifully written by our very own Miss Lush.
The show was filled with amazing costumes, wonderful singing, and heartfelt storytelling - a truly magical performance that brought festive spirit to the whole school and set the perfect tone for the Christmas season.
We were also delighted to feature a special original song written by four of our talented Year 9 pupils (Isla, Amelia, Sara and Nehthra) adding an extra touch of creativity and collaboration to the performance.
A huge congratulations to all our young performers, our teachers, and everyone working behind the scenes to make it such a success.
#prepnativity #schoolnativity #schoolshow #festiveseason
Pupils across our whole school have been busy collecting an incredible number of cereal boxes. Today we created a giant domino run - and it was absolutely brilliant to watch every single box fall in perfect sequence!
More importantly, we felt so proud of our pupils and families for their generosity. At a time when many people don’t have enough, especially at Christmas, these donations mean so much.
All contributions will support the amazing local charity partner @cookingchampions who do incredible work for our community.
We love volunteering, we love our community, and we believe in living out our message “By love, serve one another.” ❤️
Well done, everyone! 👏
#cerealboxdominochallenge #charitydonations
Pupils across our Senior School took part in the @languagenutofficial Global Competition 2025, competing alongside 310,000 students from 66 countries worldwide!
The MFL Department is extremely proud of all their pupils who dedicated an impressive amount of time and effort to learning and practising their French and Spanish whilst earning points for our school.
A special mention and congratulations goes to our top three scorers who performed exceptionally well: Maliha (Year 11) – 31st internationally, Katy (Year 10) – 91st internationally and Alexandra (Year 8) – 105th internationally. And a very well done to three of our pupils who were Highly Commended: Leen (Year 8), Valentina (Year 9) and Helena (Year 10).
#thesegirlscan #languagelearning #languagecompetition #languagenut #languagenutcompetition
Exciting news! Rosa and the Melkman family have generously donated her Head’s Prize entry from September - a bright and cheerful Book Hut! 📚
The theme of Rosa’s entry was ‘Connections’, and Rosa’s hut celebrates how we connect not just through talking, but also through reading and writing.
The hut now has a new home in the playground and will serve as a Book Swap Hut. Pupils can browse during breaktimes and take a book home, swapping it for one they’ve finished.
More titles will be added after the Christmas break - happy reading! 📖
#readingforpleasure #bookswap #schoolcommunity #bookhut #bookswaphut
