The School Day

Boarders get up at 7.15am every weekday morning and breakfast is from 7.30am. After breakfast you'll have about 20 minutes before you need to be in your Form Room for registration - just time enough to make your bed and tidy your dorm, see your Housemistress if you need to and get your books.

Day girls have to be in school in time for morning registration, and then the school day is like this:

Supper is at 6.30pm and after supper there are different activities on different days of the week: these include Sports Club, Art Club, and Drama Club.

Life at St George's is so busy that you'll be quite tired by the end of the day and ready for bed at 9.00pm - Lights Out is around 9.30pm. Saturdays and Sundays are different - for a start you get up later! A timetable of what is happening is on the Activities Board in your area. There is always an outing on either Saturday or Sunday and there are also other activities such as Cookery Club, Games, Drama Club and Cinema Trips.

Your First Day at St George's

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.

Your First Year

Guide for New Girls