Category: Senior School
Senior Prize Giving
We celebrated our older pupils’ achievements at our recent annual Senior Prize-Giving on Thursday 4th December 2024 at St John’s Church. This is a highlight of the academic year. The event featured inspiring moments: Miss Lucas’s thoughtful speech and beautiful choral performances, culminating in recognising our pupils’ hard work with the awarding of certificates, trophies,…
ISA National Swimming Gala
After a highly competitive ISA North London Swimming Gala, where PGHS competed against other local independent schools, we are thrilled to share that our girls achieved outstanding success. They secured 1st place in the majority of their races, leading to their selection to represent North London at the ISA National Swimming Gala, both in individual…
Independent 11-16 Secondary School of the Year
We’re delighted to have won a national award in The Sunday Times Parent Power Guide 2025 once again. PGHS has been named Independent 11-16 Secondary School of the Year. Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative survey of the country’s top schools, the guide is published online today and available in print in a 28-page supplement…
Year 10 LanguageNut Success
Senior pupils at PGHS took part in the Languagenut ‘UK Languagenut Secondary Competition’ over the course of the last two weeks. We are extremely proud of everyone who took part and delighted that three of our Year 10 pupils managed to place themselves within the top 50th position on the Leaderboard. It takes a lot…
Bienvenue Mademoiselle Carlin!
In October, we welcomed our French language assistant, Mademoiselle Carlin to the school, and she has written about her experience so far below. Bienvenue Mlle Carlin! Bonjour! I’m Mademoiselle Carlin and I have been working as a French language assistant since October at PGHS. I come from Valenciennes, a small city in the North of…
Stephen Spender Prize competition
During the Summer Term 2024 some of our Year 10 pupils who study French entered the Stephen Spender Prize competition run by Stephen Spender Trust. This is a leading annual prize for poetry in translation. The results have landed and this year we are delighted to announce that Lola (now Year 11) received a commendation…
Children in Need 2024
During the First World War PGHS girls helped to raise funds for children in Europe, and made weekly contributions to support a bed in a hospital for soldiers. The School’s long tradition of raising money for charity continues today. We held a non-uniform day at PGHS on Friday 15 November, and pupils and staff were…
NCLS STEM Conference 2024
On the evening of 14 November 2024, some of our talented Scientists in Year 10 and 11 visited North London Collegiate School to take part in the NLCS STEM Conference 2024. Pupils met with other like-minded individuals from a variety of schools to discover the incredible possibilities within science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine. Pupils…
Congratulations Year 11, GCSE Class of 2024
We send our heartfelt congratulations to our GCSE Class of 2024 as they receive their excellent public examination results. The School’s overall percentage of GCSEs at grades 9-8 was a super 44% and 9-7 a fantastic 72%. “I am immensely proud of all our girls for their outstanding GCSE results. Their commitment to their academic…
