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.
News from the School
The tower is open
Any girl may now climb the Founder’s Tower on a clear evening and look through the telescope. Sign the book at the foot of the stair. Wrap up warm.
Michaelmas Term
Competition
Design a lantern
Before the Parade, every girl makes her own lantern. Grown-ups may enter a design on a child’s behalf at the Admissions Office. The finest will lead the procession into the Pinetum.
Michaelmas Term
Notice
This term’s cipher
A new puzzle has been set on the door of a certain society, in the shape of a seven-pointed star. It is hard enough to want a pencil. It is answered with a word, and never an address.
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
New Pupil
A welcome to the First Form
The school welcomes its new girls, who arrived this week with their trunks and their name-tapes and their first, terrible, entirely ordinary homesickness. It passes. It always passes.
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
Competition
The Autumn Fair art prize
Paintings, drawings and models are invited for the Fair. There will be a cake stall, a three-legged race, and a tug-of-war against the village, which the village will win, as the village always does.
Michaelmas Term
News from the School
House points, this Friday
Posted as ever in three columns. 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
Notices are written by the school, and read by a grown-up before ever they appear. Nothing a child writes is published without a person reading it first.