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The First Year new girls start at St
George's the day after all the other girls in the September term. This
gives the school the chance to settle into work and means that we can
then concentrate on making you welcome.
On the first day you will arrive at
school at 10.30am if you are a boarder. Boarders, and their parents, are
then able to look at dorms, start to unpack a little, make beds up and,
most important of all, meet the First Year Housemistress.
After this you will go into the Welcome
Talk from the Headmistress. Daygirls and their parents arrive at 11.15am
and go straight into the Welcome Talk. The Headmistress welcomes you to
the school and introduces you and your parents to the people who will be
important to you during your first year: the First Year Tutors, the
First Year Housemistress, the Deputy Head, the School Sister, the First
Year Form Deputies and the Head Girl.
After the Welcome Talk you will go to
lunch in the Dining Room with your 'shadow' - a girl in the 2nd Year who
is there to look after you for the first few weeks.
After lunch, you will go to your Form
Room and meet the girls in your form. This is the time that your Form
Tutor will tell you about your timetable, clubs, activities, help you
with books, explain about prep and so on. You'll also find a lot of
information about all this in the First Year Handbook, which also
contains a plan of the school.
And then it will be into your first
classes. For the first week of term, daygirls go home at 5.00pm - before
Prep. This will give you a chance to get used to us slowly and not get
too tired! Prep starts in the second week of term and 1st year daygirls
will then go home at 6.15pm.
You'll get used to the new routine very
quickly!
Now you may like to read some other
pages in the New Girls' Guide.
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