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.
Join us for our Working Open Morning on 30 January and discover the opportunities in our Lower and Senior School that help every pupil thrive.
Experience real lessons, meet our inspiring teachers, and see first-hand how we achieve academic excellence.
Register online today!
🔗 www.pghs.co.uk/admissions/open-mornings/working-open-morning-january-2026
✨ We enjoyed a truly special Christmas Carol Service at St John’s Church, filled with festive joy as pupils, staff, parents, alumnae and friends of PGHS came together to enjoy beautiful singing, readings and musical performances from our talented pupils.
With warmest wishes for a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at PGHS.
#schoolcarolservice #christmascarolservice
Today’s End of Term Assembly was a fantastic whole school celebration of achievement, with prizes, medals and certificates awarded to pupils from across all year groups.
🏆 The House Points Cup went to the Red House for achieving the highest number of house points this term - a huge congratulations to everyone in the Red House for their collective hard work and dedication!
#celebration #success #thesegirlscan #housepointscup
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
