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.
Year 2 created bold Remembrance landscapes today in advance of our Remembrance assembly next week. They learnt about the different elements of a landscape such as horizon line and depth. Excellent work, Year 2!
#remembrance #artwork #poppyappeal2025
Please keep bringing in your donations of new, sealed cereal boxes for our exciting whole school domino challenge - we’re nearly there!
We can’t wait to share the fun with you all soon. Once the challenge is complete, every box will be donated to our local food bank to support families in need.
#community #schoolspirit #foodbanksupport #togetherwecan
Reception had a wonderful adventure this week with a trip to @littleangeltheatre 🎭
The excitement began with a train ride to Essex Road and continued as the girls watched a magical performance of “Wow! Said the Owl”- a charming story about a curious little owl who stays awake during the day to discover the colourful wonders of the daytime.
The show linked beautifully with their current topic on Nocturnal Animals - what an inspiring day!
#receptionclass #receptionschooltrip #schooltheatretrip #classadventure
Applications are still open for our 11+ Entrance and Scholarship Examination. Secure a place for your daughter today!
www.pghs.co.uk/admissions/11-admissions-at-pghs
This week, 49 pupils in our Senior School (Years 7 to 11) had the amazing opportunity to attend a performance of the West End musical @oliveronstage 🎭
Everyone had a fantastic time - the performance left everyone inspired and full of creative ideas for our own upcoming production of Oliver! later this year. We can’t wait to bring the magic to our school stage!
#schooltrip #dramatrip #theatretrip #schooltheatretrip #westendtheatre
Our charity partner @cookingchampions has launched a new fundraising initiative to transform unused land into a thriving community garden 🪴
Open to the public, the garden will serve as a safe and calming environment that promotes wellbeing. It will also support educational efforts by hosting cooking lessons for local schools, focusing on healthy, communal cooking with ingredients grown within the garden.
The project has been approved by @spacehive and @enfieldcouncil. If @cookingchampions raise approximately £2,200 they will receive an additional £5,000 from the council.
A simple donation of £2 per family could make all the difference. To learn more and donate to this inspiring local community project, please visit www.spacehive.com/cookingchampions.
#localcommunity #localcommunitysupport #cookingchampions #fundraising #charityproject
On Friday 17th October, a group of determined Year 5 and 6 girls proudly represented our school at the borough-wide cross country competition held at Enfield Playing Fields. It was a wonderful way to end the half term, filled with energy, teamwork, and resilience.
Zehra, Stefanie, Serafina, Alice, and Jessica competed in the Girls A Team event, giving it their all from start to finish. With over 500 pupils from 40 different schools taking part, the competition was incredibly tough. Our highest individual placement was 30th - a commendable achievement in such a large and competitive field.
Every one of our runners showed tremendous effort, courage, and school spirit. They couldn’t have given more, and we are incredibly proud of their performance and attitude throughout the event.
A huge well done to all the girls—you truly did us proud.
#crosscountry #enfieldplayingfields #thisgirlcan #thisgirlcanrun
Year 3 have been enjoying working on our cross-curricular topic inspired by Jeannie Baker’s collage book ‘Window’. Pupils have thought and talked about the differences between rural and urban environments and weighed up the advantages and disadvantages of each.
We have explored our own views from different windows, including from our classroom, and have learned key vocabulary about landscape paintings, including foreground, middle-ground and background.
Finally, we have created our own detailed, layered collages of a rural landscape through a window using a range of materials, starting with a watercolour wash for the sky. We are now starting work on a contrasting, urban city-scape, using Van Gogh’s Starry Night painting as inspiration. We will be adding onto this our own cityscape to create a beautiful and original night view of London.
#window #urbancityscapes #vangogh #starrynight
In Design & Technology, Year 4 pupils have been learning about health & safety in the workshop. Pupils worked in House groups to design and make a poster promoting health & safety awareness, so we made it even more exciting by making this task a competition….
The winners were Blue House; Naomi, Mila and Grace! Well done to all of Year 4, they worked very hard to include lots of information and consider bold use of colour and visual effects.
#designtechnology #d&t #healthandsafety
Congratulations to our Head`s Prizewinners 2025!
Before the summer holidays our incoming Year 7 pupils were sent a project to work on for the start of term. The theme was `Connections` and pupils were encouraged to `think outside of the box`.
Max J`s highly commended project was called Microscopic, and explored the connections between veins and arteries in our bodies.
Miya I-E`s stop motion animation wowed the judges and she was the overall winner. Watch a video of Miya talking about her project above!
#headsprize2025 #pghsheadsprize #connections #connectionsproject #summerholidaywork
Our pupil-led assemblies are a powerful and engaging way to raise awareness for important events.
This week we celebrated #BlackHistoryMonth, which supplemented all the work that is already imbedded into the curriculum and the pastoral diary for pupils from Reception to Year 11.
Our assembly - led by the brilliant EDI Committee and Mrs Tikare - explored this year’s theme of #standingfirminpowerandpride, which was extremely well presented and conveyed during the assembly.
A huge well done to all members of the EDI Committee for their insight and effort. Thank you also to our pupils for their creative contributions to the Senior School corridor window display — a wonderful visual celebration.
#EDI #studentvoice #pupilleadership #inclusiveeducation #celebratingdiversity #schoolcommunity #blackhistorymonth2025
Year 7 pupils performed a showcase of their musical talents at the end of the half term, with songs ranging from popular music (Louis Capaldi, Adele and Benson Boone) to classical and jazz. There was a wide range of talent on show, and despite Faye M only learning the violin for 5 weeks, she still played `Rhythm Fever`.
Group performances were of songs written or inspired by black artists in celebration of #blackhistorymonth, and pupils introduced them with a few lines about their composers. Stand by Me by Ben E. King even had the addition of different shaped vuvuzelas!
The pupils clearly enjoyed being in front of an audience and their emotional parents were there to support them. Well done Year 7! There`s a bright future for senior music!
#musicalshowcase #music #performingarts
