A special highlight of Charity Week 2023 was Friday evening’s concert, 'All Voices Heard', held in the Southwell Hall at St Margaret’s Prep. Izzy, LVI (Year 12), spent the past few months planning the concert, from inviting students to volunteer or perform, to teaching the LIV (Year 7) a song to sing.

This year's annual Charity Week saw a great team of enthusiastic LVI (Year 12) students create a fantastic range of fun activities to raise money for this year’s chosen charity: Swindon Women’s Aid, a charity centred around helping victims of domestic abuse.

We were delighted that literary members of the Sixth Form entered the 23rd Christopher Tower Poetry Competition, the most prestigious award for young poets in the UK, with students between 16-18 years of age challenged to write a poem on the theme 'The Planets'.

On Tuesday 28th February, we had the fantastic opportunity of having Kadeen Corbin, 2018 English Commonwealth Games gold medallist, coming into coach the 1^st and 2^nd Netball Teams.

The Nottingham Lacrosse Weekend Tour was an opportunity for our senior lacrosse players to experience different types of lacrosse, such as playing against universities and different teams we do not normally play against, in the build up to Nationals.

Congratulations to our talented artists who have had work selected for the annual Young Art competition exhibition taking place at the Royal College of Art from Tuesday 25th- Friday 28th April. Entries from St Mary's were selected from pieces that were submitted to the Literalily Art Competition.

On Sunday 26th February, Chamber Choir had the pleasure of visiting Eton College for an Evensong service.

Alumnae from St Mary's Calne have been representing on the international lacrosse stage recently with Ella Malik (2022 Leaver) and Lizzie Rutherford (2021 Leaver) playing for England, while Iona Westwood (2017 Leaver) and Caroline Brenchley (2019 Leaver) playing for Scotland and Wales respectively in the Euro Lax Sixes Cup.

We celebrated the Fourth Form Music Festival with a stunning concert on the Friday just before Half Term.  Seventeen of our talented junior musicians performed for the chance to win The Festival Cup.

As part of our World Book Day 2023 celebrations, we held a Book Fair in the Library, offering a great range of titles from classics through to the latest fiction.

Michelangelo’s David and Botticelli’s Birth of Venus both symbolise the Renaissance city of Florence, highlighting the ways in which iconography is subject to historical change. Indeed, the purpose of the A Level History of Art trip to Florence over the February Half Term was to unpack the stylistic characteristics of these works and numerous others.

On Tuesday 21st February, our Sixth Form Lecture was presented by Amy Peake who spoke to us about her inspiring and impactful journey in founding and developing her charity, Loving Humanity.