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Inspiring Lives 2020 - Get Involved!

Would you be happy to help inspire the young minds of today's QM?We want to hear from OMs and other members of the QM Family who would be keen to come along and speak to current students in Years IV - UVI at our annual 'Inspiring Lives' careers event, which will be held this year on the afternoon of ...

Independent Schools Nursing Conference 2020

This week, QM was delighted to welcome 40 healthcare professionals from schools and organisations across the North of England to the annual Independent Schools Nursing Conference. The day included a range of presentations on topics including Sexual Health, Sporting Injuries, Asthma Management and Sa ...

Senior musical production: Beauty and the Beast

The QM girls love Disney, so imagine their utter joy when Beauty and the Beast was announced as this year’s senior musical production! Following weeks of dedicated rehearsing the cast, crew and orchestra were rewarded with a jam-packed Chapman Theatre for all four performances. The ensemble pieces, ...

'Inspiring Lives' Careers Afternoon

This term we were delighted to welcome both current and former parents, OMs and other members of the QM Family to speak at the annual 'Inspiring Lives' careers event. Now bigger than ever, this year girls had the opportunity to get an 'insider's view' on a dozen different career paths, from Archaeol ...

Quiet Garden Opening & Blessing

It was a pleasure to welcome members of the OMA from over seven generations to the Quiet Garden opening ceremony this term, a project made possible by the OMA’s donation to the 2018 Annual Fund. Following a Chapel service with the whole School, The Right Revd Glyn Webster, Bishop of Beverley led a v ...

QM Hosts National Council of Young Women Conference

QM hosted the National Council of Young Women Conference on Monday 30 September 2019. The theme of the conference, which brought together girls from schools across Yorkshire and the North East, was ‘Women in Law’. ...

Book Signing for OM's new publication

We were pleased to hear about the successful book signing of an OM which took place in Selby just last week.Hooves, muscles and sweat: the story of a pioneering Yorkshire equine physiotherapist was published by Katie Bloom (Skowronek 1972-1977) earlier this year and tells the story of Katie’s remark ...

Major Renovations and New Proprietor for QM Riding School

This summer the Riding School at Queen Margaret’s is undergoing some major renovations ahead of us welcoming new proprietor, Claire Rowland, in September.

The 25 stables at the Riding School are being fitted with brand new roofing and new post and rail fencing now lines the QM drive, ensuring tha ...

QM Speech Day & Summer Ball

From sporting prowess to musical accolades, Speech Day is the day when the achievements of all girls in School are celebrated with teachers, parents and other friends of QM. We were sad to say goodbye to our UVI Leavers, who donned their traditional red ribbons with pride for the occasion, bu ...

Queen Margaret's Judged 'Excellent' in Inspection

Queen Margaret’s was recently inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) and has been judged as “excellent” in all categories assessed. See the full report here. ...

Calling All Head Girls!

As part of our ongoing Head Girls Archive Project, we are keen to get in touch with as many Head and Deputy Head girls as possible before this year's 70 year anniversary of QM moving to Escrick Park. Our archives are currently being organised by a very kind volunteer OM and we are slowly piecing tog ...

Spring & Summer Trends on Show at Fenwick

Thursday 14 March saw our girls bring the glamour of London Fashion Week to the streets of York, as the QM Family visited Fenwick for a night of sparkling champagne and exclusive shopping. After a catwalk show featuring models from Lower and Upper Sixth, celebrity make-up artist Martin Aitken g ...

Annual Fund 2019

We are delighted to launch The Annual Fund 2019, designed to further enhance the girls’ life and experiences at School. Three carefully selected projects have been chosen which will benefit the whole School, providing both intellectual stimulation and inspiration whilst also enriching the very impor ...

QM Hosts First Independent Schools Nursing Conference

On Wednesday 30 January, Queen Margaret’s played host to the inaugural Independent Schools Nursing Conference. The brainchild of QM’s resident Senior Nurse, Helen Williams, the conference was created to respond to an emerging need to recognise health and well-being’s role in schools. ...

Burns Night Supper & Ceilidh at QM

Did you know that Queen Margaret's School has long-lasting roots north of the Border? Not only is our namesake, St Margaret, a Scottish queen, but the School took up residence in Pitlochry for a number of years during the evacuation of the First World War. It will come as no surprise, then, that we ...

A Quiet Garden for QM

QM was absolutely delighted by the news that at its Annual General Meeting in October there was overwhelming support from the Old Margaretian Association (OMA) to fund the creation of a Quiet Garden in the very heart of the School grounds.The Quiet Garden will nurture spiritual and mental wellbein ...

Independent Girls’ School of the Year

Queen Margaret’s has been awarded Highly Commended Independent Girls’ School of the Year in the inaugural Independent School Parent Magazine Awards. The accolade was decided upon by a judging panel comprising leading figures from the sector in recognition of the depth, breadth and strength of the ov ...

Sue Baillie Appointed Head of Queen Margaret’s

The Board of Governors is delighted to announce that Sue Baillie has been appointed Head of Queen Margaret’s, York.

Sue began her twenty-seven year teaching career in the North at Barnard Castle School and has had an affinity with the region ever since. ...

Edinburgh Drinks Reception 2018

A warm welcome to all who attended this year's Drinks Reception at The Balmoral in Edinburgh. Now a firm staple in the calendar, the evening is always a chance to catch up with old friends and network with new faces in the QM Family from one of the most iconic buildings in the city. ...

QM 'Inspiring Lives' Careers Event

This year's 'Inspiring Lives' careers event built on last year's success, with nine speakers from the QM Family visiting QM to share their experience and advice with girls from Years IV - UVI.The afternoon began with an inspiring talk from our Keynote Speaker Charlotte Spence, one of the world's lea ...

Holding Back The Years - Class of 1980

On a hot Sunday in July, we gathered back at QM to mark our ‘nearly 40 year’ reunion. For those who had left in 1978 after O Levels it was, of course, 40 years but for a few of us who stayed on for Lower or Upper Sixth Form it was not quite that, but we weren't going to be bothered by technicalities ...

Back To School - Class of 1998

I hope that I can speak for all of us in saying that the friendships we made at Queen Margaret’s have been some of the closest and most enduring that we have made throughout our lives. Earlier this year, with the 20 year mark fast approaching, we thought that it was an opportunity to go ‘back to Sch ...

Everlasting Friendships - Class of 1978

Twenty eight OMs celebrated 40 years (how did that happen – two score years!) since leaving QM at a special reunion tea held on 21 April 2018. The weather was perfect sunshine, and after the butterflies we all felt as we approached the front door, it was all excitement and squeals of delight at the ...

How Times Have Changed - Class of 1974

Thirty one OMs met at The Parsonage Hotel, Escrick (Lodge) for a lovely reunion on 30 September 2017. We enjoyed Prosecco with canapés, a delicious buffet lunch and lots of chatter and laughter which lasted well into the evening. ...