Notice
The Welcome Feast
Term begins on Friday, in the Great Hall. The whole school will sing, the head girl will read the legend, and there will be a pudding. There is always a pudding, and there is always something in it.
Michaelmas Term
St Elowen’s
Lumen servamus.
Welcome
Welcome to St Elowen’s
There has been a school at St Elowen’s for a hundred and fifty years, and in a hundred and fifty years a school gathers a great many secrets.
It stands where it has always stood, at the end of a long drive in the Weald of Kent, with the Great Elm in front of the school and the light of its tower burning at dusk. Girls have come here in every generation to learn, and to grow brave, and to find the friends they will keep for the whole of their lives.
Lumen servamus. We keep the light.
There is a light in the tower.
There has been, every night, for a hundred and fifty years.
Nobody will tell you who lights it. Not Matron, who tells you everything. Not Miss Winthrop, who does not lie. The door at the foot of the stair is locked, and it has been locked longer than anybody can remember, and the whole school has simply stopped asking.
Emily Ashworth arrived in September and started asking.
The Porter’s Lodge
Four Doors at St Elowen’s
Whoever you are, there is a way in.
I should like to be a pupil
Explore the school, find your house, and see whether St Elowen’s will have you.
I am a parent or a grandparent
Discover the books, and the world they open.
I am a teacher, a librarian, or a school
Reading resources, classroom activities, and school visits.
I am already of St Elowen’s
The noticeboard, the Society, and what happens next.
An agent, an editor, or a publisher? The rights, the word counts, and the state of the series.
Pinned this week
From the Noticeboard
New Pupil
New girls
The First Form came up the drive this week with their trunks and their name-tapes and their first, terrible, entirely ordinary homesickness. It passes. It always passes. Be kind to them at breakfast.
Michaelmas Term
Notice
The tower stair
Girls are reminded, as girls are reminded every year, that the door at the foot of the tower stair is locked, and that this is not an invitation.
Michaelmas Term
Admissions
The Admissions Office
St Elowen’s writes to the grown-ups.
Leave your address with the Admissions Office and we shall send you the first three chapters of The Star of Promise at once, and, from time to time, news from the school: new books, new stories, and things worth reading aloud.