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Education in the Bailiwick of Guernsey is the combined education systems of Guernsey, Alderney and Sark. In Guernsey, it is overseen by the Education Section of the Committee for Education, Sport and Culture, part of the States of Guernsey. The States manage a number of island schools, including three comprehensive secondary schools and one ...
The Royal College of Elizabeth, better known as Elizabeth College, is a co-educational independent school in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey. A member of the HMC (The Heads' Conference), it is a public school in the British sense of the term. Founded on 25 May 1563 by royal charter from Elizabeth I, it is one of the oldest schools in the British ...
Blanchelande College is a 2–18 mixed, Roman Catholic, private school and sixth form in Saint Andrew, Guernsey. It was established in 1902 and is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth. [2] It was the first independent school in Guernsey to become fully mixed. The Department for Education categorises it as an overseas British ...
The Sixth Form Centre is a state-funded sixth form located in St Andrew's, Guernsey. It is the only state-funded, free admission sixth form in the Bailiwick of Guernsey . The sixth form is currently planned to relocate to the current La Mare De Carteret High School building from September 2025 until at least 2029 due to delays in the States of ...
Last Monday in August. Summer bank holiday. 25 December. Christmas Day. 26 December. Boxing Day. Also, Alderney observes the first Monday of August as Summer Bank Holiday, and 15 December as Homecoming Day, commemorating the day in 1945 when evacuated residents returned to the island after the Second World War.
The school was founded on 10 October 1872, with the aim of providing acamedic education to girls on the island. [4] [2] The school was established in order to emulate Cheltenham Ladies' College, [6] [7] by the two joint-secretaries of the Guernsey Ladies' Educational Guild who issued two hundred shares of five pounds each; fittingly, the school's first principal was a former member of staff at ...
The history of the Bailiwick of Guernsey goes back to 933 when the islands came under the control of William Longsword, son of Rollo the first Duke of Normandy, having been annexed from the Duchy of Brittany by the Duchy of Normandy. The island of Guernsey and the other island in the Channel Islands represent the last remnants of the medieval ...
The States of Guernsey ( French: États de Guernesey ), officially the States of Deliberation and sometimes referred to as the Government of Guernsey, [ 1] is the parliament and government of the British Crown dependency of Guernsey. Some laws and ordinances approved by the States of Guernsey also apply to Alderney and Sark (the other component ...