14th April 2021 — Congratulation to Faith and Imogen, Year 8, from Malvern St James Girls' School on winning the ISA STEAM Competition (KS3).

The competition encourages students to investigate and solve problems from today’s world. The competition encouraged teamwork, thoughtful dialogue and problem-solving.

As part of this project Faith and Imogen created the Environment and Sustainability Club. They created videos and posts to raise awareness of how people can make a difference to the environment.

Faith and Imogen said "For this project, it is not just one problem that we are trying to solve, we are tackling many separate problems within the category of environmental sustainability. These include: recycling, growing your own food, reducing waste, reusing everyday items, reducing bills, energy efficiency and buying from local sellers (food and other items)."

Well done to everyone who took part in the first ISA STEAM Competition. The judges were very impressed with all the entries.

Visit the ISA Arts website for details of Faith and Imogen's winning entry.

15th March 2021 — Malvern St James Girls' School has achieved the School Mental Health Award, delivered by the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools.

The school was awarded a Gold standard for its outstanding mental health and wellbeing provision.

Headmistress Olivera Raraty said: "I am extremely proud and delighted that MSJ’s outstanding pastoral provision in support of positive mental health has been recognised in this way.

"Mental health programmes have come such a long way in schools in recent years and we are delighted to be at the forefront of this change working with the Carnegie Centre of Excellence.

"This award also recognises the excellent way that staff and pupils support each other day in, day out, to promote wellbeing."

Malvern St James provides a wide range of activities to boost the wellbeing of pupils and staff, including offering Youth Mental Health First Aid training to a cross section of staff and Sixth Form, Wellbeing Champion and Wellbeing Ambassador peer support structures for staff and pupils, mindfulness, mental health and wellbeing lessons taught through PSHEEC and using social media platforms to signpost support and information via @msjbuzz on Instagram and Twitter.

The award was established in 2017 by the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools – part of Leeds Beckett University – and social enterprise Minds Ahead.

Professor Damien Page, Dean of Leeds Beckett’s Carnegie School of Education, said: "Achieving this award is not just recognition of a whole-school approach to mental health, it’s a recognition of the school’s commitment to improving the life chances of children.

"We’re truly proud to have worked with Malvern St James Girls’ School in this vital work and look forward to further collaboration."

Dean Johnstone, founder and CEO of Minds Ahead said: "This award shines a light on the excellent work schools are doing to promote mental health for their community of children and adults.

"It is thrilling and humbling to learn about Malvern St James Girls’ School and the many other schools engaged in the quality award process.

"I’d like to offer my congratulations on this deserved recognition."

5th February 2021 — The Malvern St James Girls' School Hearts Dressage Team were crowned overall winners in the National Schools Equestrian Championship Qualifier.

Congratulations go to the winning team of Hannah on Nemo Novice 28, 71.88%, Lottie on Capri Prelim 13, 73.65% and Tiggy on Dash Prelim 13, 69.81%.

The MSJ team succeeded in a class of 21 National School Dressage Teams comprising over 80 riders across the UK all competing for a top-three placing. Congratulations also go to Lottie for a fourth individual qualification on Lucky Novice 28, 71.88%.

Challenging weather conditions and sporting restrictions meant that three MSJ dressage teams, Team Hearts, Team Diamonds and Team Clubs comprising three or four rider combinations, simultaneously recorded remotely their dressage tests under strict criteria.

Our thanks go to other participating team members, Olivia, Serena, Faith and Tilly. A tremendous team effort.

25th January 2021 — Malvern St James Girls' School is pleased to announce that their website, launched in April 2020, has been commended in the international AVA Digital Awards with an ‘Honourable Mention’.

The AVA Digital Awards is an annual international competition that recognises excellence by creative professionals responsible for the planning, concept, direction, design and production of digital communication.

Entries are accepted across a range of digital disciplines including websites, audio & video productions, social media and mobile marketing. They are judged on their own merit by experienced professionals based in the US who have worked on projects similar to the entries submitted.

Each year, Finalsite’s UK team submit to a small number of prestigious design international competitions including the AVA Awards and this year they were excited to put forward the Malvern St James Girls' School website.

Nominations are made internally by The Finalsite design team and can include any Finalsite website. Each designer is asked to put forward websites they feel demonstrates creative excellence. The choices are then narrowed down by a small committee of Senior Designers at Finalsite.

Finalsite chose to nominate Malvern St James Girls' School as they think it is a fantastic example of an innovative and purposeful school website. Its bold and vibrant, mobile-first design provides a fantastic, emotionally-engaging insight into the school and its community. This is supported by a really clear and intuitive user experience with great usability.

11th December 2020 — Congratulations to Romilly, Jemima and Jess from Malvern St James Girls' School on their success in the Malvern Civic Society Literary Competition.

This year we're pleased to announce Romilly, Year 9, was crowned overall winner of the Literary Competition with Jemima, Year 8, and Jessica, Year 10, being awarded Highly Commended in the Secondary School category.

The Malvern Civic Society has run a Schools’ Literary Competition for a number of years. This year the Secondary School Competition entrants were invited to spend an afternoon in the Malvern area and visit a place of interest to them. They had to describe their visit and explain why they chose the place and if it is special to them in any way.

9th December 2020 — As part of the Year 12 Enrichment Course, girls at Malvern St James Girls' School are taking part in a number of activities to support our local community. So far they have raised money, donated to food banks and made Christmas cards for residents at care homes in Malvern.

Their latest contribution to the community has seen the girls coordinate a collection in aid of Malvern Special Families with over £700 raised.

Malvern St James has worked closely with Malvern Special Families for many years. Usually, at this time of year, the School would host a Christmas party for Malvern Special Families. Unfortunately, this year that was not possible, instead the girls have used the money raised to buy the children Christmas presents, with any money remaining being donated to the charities Crowd Funding campaign.

Tiggy, Year 12, said "We would like to say a huge thank you for the generosity that has been expressed over this past term, as it has enabled us to spread joy and kindness. As a group, we are hoping that this will make the children at Malvern Special Families’ Christmas just a little more exciting and that they will be hopeful for the year to come."