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
Pinned in the corridor
The Noticeboard
Everything the school wishes you to know, pinned up outside the Great Hall, going a little yellow at the corners. Dated by term, because the school does not much hold with calendars.
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
Notice
A thing that is not the school’s business
Somebody has been leaving a puzzle about the grounds. It is in the shape of a star with seven points, and it is answered with a word, and never with an address, and it is hard enough to want a pencil.
The school does not know who set it. The school is not, on balance, going to make a great fuss about finding out.
Michaelmas Term
News from the School
Hockey: the Bramblehurst fixture
We play Bramblehurst on Saturday. We shall play beautifully. We may even win, though we make no promises, and we shall shake hands whatever the score. Touch the Duke on your way out.
Michaelmas Term
Notice
Half Term: the Visiting Day
St Elowen’s does not send its girls away at Half Term. We hold a Visiting Day instead: tours, a concert, and parents’ tea. Every girl is spoken for, and every girl is included. See that she is.
Michaelmas Term
News from the School
House points, this Friday
Posted as ever in three bars. Oak leads, which will surprise nobody. Holly is close. Elm is quietly furious and says nothing, which is the most Elm thing imaginable.
Michaelmas Term
Notice
The Lantern Parade
At dusk, at the term’s turning, the whole school processes by lantern-light from the Great Hall down into the Pinetum. Craft lessons begin next week. Bring nothing but your hands.
Michaelmas Term
New Pupil
A day girl joins us
We welcome a new day girl to the Lower School. Boarders are reminded that a day girl goes home to a different sort of evening, and that this is neither better nor worse, only different, and worth remembering.
Michaelmas Term
News from the School
Lost, and found
One games shoe, lost a fortnight, has been recovered from the coal scuttle. Matron has views. Matron always has views. The shoe has been returned to its owner, cleaned, and named, again.
Michaelmas Term
Three notices are pinned each half-term. The rest are kept below, going a little yellow at the corners.