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A very warm welcome to our new Head
Palmers Green High School is delighted to welcome a new Head, Ms Sarah Proudlove, who joins us from Mill Hill International (MHI). Ms Proudlove moved to North London in April 2015 for the role of Deputy Head at MHI, assisting the Head in the creation of the school which opened in September that year. Prior…
Number One… We Did It Again!
We are delighted to announce that once again PGHS has hit the top spot in the Sunday Times’ Parent Power League Table for Independent Schools with no sixth form. The Sunday Times’ Schools Guide 2023 identifies the highest-achieving schools in the UK ranked by their most recent moderated examination results. Congratulations again to the ‘Class…
Young Geographer of the Year 2022 Achievement
Congratulations to Lara in Year 8 who was selected as a highly commended entry in the Key Stage 3 category of the Young Geographer of the Year 2022 competition. Young Geographer of the Year is a national competition run by the Royal Geographical Society to encourage pupils to engage with geographical issues. This year’s competition…
Senior School Prize Giving 2022
We were delighted to welcome back our 2022 Leavers and to celebrate the success of all our senior pupils at our recent Senior Prize Giving, held on Thursday 17th November, at St John’s Church in Palmers Green. Miss Onyenahoa, a former PGHS pupil, was our guest speaker and it was wonderful that she could join…
Karen McCarthy Woolf Poetry Workshop
On Tuesday 18th October 2022, we were delighted to welcome the acclaimed poet Karen McCarthy Woolf to our School to work with a group of Year 10 and Year 11 pupils. McCarthy Woolf was born in London to English and Jamaican parents and her award winning poetry has featured in numerous publications as well as…
Congratulations Year 11, GCSE Class of 2022
Congratulations to our very hard-working GCSE Class of 2022 for the superb results they received today. The School’s overall percentage of GCSEs A*/9/8 grades was a magnificent 65% and A*/9 to A/7 a fantastic 85%. In common with all pupils across the country, they have faced uncertainty and change over the last two years. Year…
PGHS working in partnership with St Monica’s Catholic Primary School
On Friday, 24th of February 2022, the MFL Department at PGHS went to visit St Monica’s School, one of our local partnership primary schools, for an afternoon of language discovery, fun and creativity. Mrs Larotonda, Mrs Parry-Garnaud and nine Y11 pupils spent time with Year 5, promoting languages as a whole and Spanish in particular….
World Book Day
Pupils and staff had a wonderful day celebrating World Book Day. It started with an excellent visit from acclaimed local author, Caroline Green which we really enjoyed. The girls in the Lower School dressed up as a favourite book character & the staff surprised them by dressing up, as a group, as Wally from ‘Where’s…
PGHS is Number One…Again!
We are excited to announce that once again PGHS has hit the top spot in the Sunday Times’ Parent Power League Table for Small Independent Schools. This year the results were generated using data going back to 2017, which shows how consistent our fabulous results are!
ICS’s Partnership Week in Action – Palmers Green High School working with St Paul’s Church of England Primary School
Madame Parry-Garnaud, Head of Modern Foreign Languages at Palmers Green High School (PGHS), shares her experience about a new project she is running with her Year 11 Pupils and local primary schools, entitled ‘Le Français dans la communaute’. The objective of the new partnership initiative is to give a French taster day to Year 5…
