Book Your Place at the Virtual Alumnae Carol Service Now

Please join us from the comfort of your own home as five of our illustrious alumnae give video readings at our first ever virtual service, alongside the Head Mistress, Deputy Head, Chair of the Governors and the Head Girl team.

Uplifting music will be provided courtesy of five different gloriously talented LEH choirs, including the Holles Singers, who will perform a selection of carols and festive music – and of course – the LEH favourite 'Star In The Sky', guaranteed not to leave a dry eye in the house.

The service is usually held at St Giles’ Cripplegate Church in the Barbican, close to the place where the Lady Eleanor Holles School was founded, but this year, like so many events, it has had to go online, which will allow any of our alumnae now living overseas to join in, for the first time in years.

The Reverend Lucy Thirtle, who has featured in our Holles Connect magazine, has been working as a vicar since 2004. She currently works part-time in a group of eight parishes, with primary responsibility for three of them, including St Giles' in Noke, near Oxford, where she filmed her words of welcome, prayers and blessings.

The alumnae, who have very kindly filmed themselves reading traditional bible verses and poems are: former Head Girl Liz Cheyne (Class of 1970), who now lives in South Africa; former Biology teacher as well as alumna Stella Stephens (Class of 1949); recent leaver and rising star actress Ana Martin (Class of 2018); High Court judge Mrs Justice Cockerill, Sara Eaton (Class of 1986); and Financial Partner Yasmine Chinwala (Class of 1995) who was awarded in an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in October.

It looks set to be a truly special service and we hope you’ll join in the singing, with a travellator of words running below each carol, to really get you in the festive mood. Instead of the usual collection plate being passed round, we are asking you to donate the amount you would have given online, via a special collection link on the website for the Carol Service.

Please register for the event here, so we can send you the link for the event nearer the time.