Alton Convent’s Annual Festival of  Arts chose a Jubilee theme this year. Art work, musical items, readings, and dance were all chosen to celebrate ‘Britishness’. Visitors were welcomed by traditional maypole dancing and then invited to wander through the gallery of artwork from Year 1 – Sixth form. The younger pupils had worked on designing [...]

After being mesmerised by the brilliant divers at the Olympic pool back in February. The pupils and staff from Alton Convent were very privileged to watch the very best in International Hockey play on a quite remarkable astro turf pitch in the Olympic park. It was just an amazing sight and a brilliant atmosphere. Great Britain, [...]

At the end of a busy Netball season Alton has achieved some excellent results in the Aldershot and District Netball Leagues. The League is very strongly contested in all year groups with both state and private schools included. In the U16 & U13 Leagues Alton were Runners Up only getting beaten once throughout the whole [...]

On Easter Sunday, nineteen girls from Alton Convent travelled to Lourdes with the Lower Sixth of Salesian College. Our pilgrimage began with the 15 hour train journey to South France, the length of which only added to our anticipation of the week ahead, for which we had been raising money for several months. Our week [...]

Sophie Hales from Year 11, has just been selected to shoot for Hampshire in archery and in the process has set a new Hampshire record. Having started archery just over a year ago, as part of her Duke of Edinburgh award, Sophie, with the help of her coach has become exceedingly good. At sixteen she [...]

On the 29th March the Fifth Year girls ran a “Colossal Cake Sale” in aid of the Help for Heroes charity. Hundreds of cakes, cupcakes, cookies and muffins were brought in by the Fifth Year and sold throughout the school day as well as drinks being sold to parents as school finished. Thanks to the [...]

The Lower Prep children have been learning outdoors and taking full advantage of the sunshine and the rain in our beautiful grounds. First hand experience is the best way to learn and it is so exciting for the children to see their tiny seedlings begin to grow. They have started to plant out their bean [...]

Francesca Page who was one of ten students who recently won “Who are you” competition will have her portait of Amanda Humphrey displayed in supersize at the following locations: 11-13 Cove Road, Rushmoor, Farnborough, GU14 0EH Meridian Centre, Elm ane, Havant, PO9 1QD 94 Cavendish Place, CNR Longstone Road, Eastbourne, BN21 3RR BGE Approach, Boundary [...]

Congratulations to Katie Earl in the Lower Sixth for her amazing achievement of drumming non-stop for 7 hours on Wednesday 21st March in aid of the Pink Place, a local Breast Cancer charity based in Basingstoke and Deane, and the Lourdes HCPT appeal. Not only did Katie play the drums, she did so in great [...]

After school on Friday 16th March the Lower Sixth hosted a party for Years 4, 5 and 6 in the Prep School in aid of the Lourdes HCPT appeal.  The party held in the Drama Studio was a great success with traditional games like ‘Pass the Parcel’ and ‘Musical Statues’ combined with some more energetic [...]