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Introduction to
the School
Leicester High is an independent and selective fee paying day school of about 400 girls aged from 3-18 years old. The School
has a Junior Department and a Senior School in separate buildings, and is on one site set back from the London Road, on the
south-side of Leicester city near The Racecourse. The three acres of school grounds have tennis and netball courts within
extensive gardens. There are currently 57 teaching staff and 54 support staff. We have been educating girls for over 100 years,
and the School has been on its current site for over 85 years. In 1985 the School changed its name from Portland House to
Leicester High School for Girls. In 2010, the School was significantly extended, creating many more opportunities for our pupils.
Early Years
Foundation and Reception (age 3-5)
Junior Department
Years 1-5 (age 5-10)
The Junior Department has over 100 girls, in a separate 1930s house on the same site as the Senior School. Girls in the Junior
Department access the science, food rooms and gym in the Senior School regularly, and Senior School girls visit often and soon
become familiar faces, as well as role models to the younger girls. There is an Early Years Unit with six staff for 32 girls. There
are two classrooms, a craft room, an indoor and outdoor play area and a playground. There is also the ‘Spinney’ where the girls
enjoy lessons in a new environment experiencing the outdoors. The Junior Department has its own hall, library, art room, IT suite,
garden, playground and outdoor learning area. Girls in Years 1-5 have a classroom and a teacher each. The girls have additional
subject specialist teachers for music, PE and French.
7.30am
Mum drops me off early on her way
to work to Before-School Care
where I play with my friends.
8.25am
I go to my classroom where I see
my teacher and am registered.
8.00am
A fun simple Yoga session
in the school hall.
8.30am
Assembly or singing
in the hall.
9.00am-11.30am
I get dressed in my outdoor
clothes and go into the ‘Spinney’
where I build dens and explore the
woodland. I finish the session with
a cup of hot chocolate and a song
with my friends on the log seats.
11.30am-11.45pm
Storytime before lunch.
11.45am-12.45pm
I eat my lunch with the other
girls and a grown up on my
lunch table and then go out
to play.
12.45pm
I come back to my classroom for
a rest, sleep if I need to and drink
some water.
1.15pm
I work with my Key Person
and do some painting.
2.25pm
I go to ballet with my class and my
ballet teacher.
3.00pm
I get dressed and get ready
to go home.
3.15pm
Mum picks me up from
my classroom.
9.00am-10.00am
I learn how to play a drum as
part of an ensemble in my class
music lesson in the Senior School
music room.
8.25am
I unpack my bag in my classroom
and hand in my homework and
get ready for the day ahead.
10.30am-11.45am
I have a maths lesson with my
class teacher and for some
of the lesson we work in the
IT Suite using
Mymaths
to help
me practise a new concept.
12.15pm
I get changed for badminton club
and my teacher takes me to the
senior gym to play a doubles
tournament against other girls.
1.40pm
I have art in the art room where
we are creating silk screen
paintings of an underwater
scene, linking to our topic work.
3.30pm
I have Science Club after
school in the Senior Science
laboratories where I get to
do lots of fun experiments.
8.00am
I walk into school and meet my
friends in the entrance to the
Junior Department.
8.30am
I lead the class down to assembly
in the junior hall.
Break
I have some milk in my classroom
and eat my fruit and then go
outside to play with my friends.
Lunch
I eat my lunch with other girls in
my House and we win a House
Point for being the tidiest table.
1.00pm
I get changed back into my
uniform and go up to my
classroom for afternoon
registration. It is then my
group’s turn for Guided
Reading which I love.
2.30pm
I have an English lesson where
I am improving a story that
I have begun to write about
Atlantis. My homework is to
finish the story.
4.30pm
My dad collects me
and I go home.
Junior
Department
A typical day in the life of...
Early Years
Year 4
