I am incredibly honoured to have been selected as Putney’s Head Girl for 2018/19 and super excited to work with so many people.

Our responsibilities as a team include organising the prefects to their duties, having meetings with the Headmistress and Deputies each week, acting as a bridge between the students and the teaching body and so much more.

I’m Connie and I’m studying Music, Geography and Psychology at A-level, with the intention of studying music at university. This is my thirteenth year at Putney – I joined in Reception when I was four years old.

As a Deputy Head Girl, my responsibilities include organising for prefects to attend all the school events, meeting with Mrs Longstaff and the prefect team each week and generally keeping the communication between the staff and the student body running smoothly. The team also recently attended a GDST event where we had the pleasure of meeting other Head Girl teams from across the GDST, which was an amazing experience.

I am so grateful to have been chosen to be a member of this year’s Head Girl team, especially as all the other girls on the team are so lovely! It is an amazing way to spend my final year at Putney High School and I hope that we can help to make this year the best that it can possibly be!

My name is Georgia and I study Geography, Biology, Economics and AS Maths, and hope to go on to study Geography at university. I am a Putney girl through and through – I joined Putney at the age of four and I have seen the school morph into the amazing community that it is today!

The Head Girl application system was something that I personally found exhilarating. After being chosen as a prefect we had to write and perform our speeches to the school. This was probably one of the most fulfilling things I have ever done as the sense of self satisfaction was immense.

I hope to bring my fun and bubbly personality to the team and aim to represent the student voice of the school. I also aspire to increase the number of house events held each year. This is something very important to me as I think that everyone needs a ‘team’ in life as it helps you to keep pushing yourself onto greater things.

My name is Nana Ama Konadu Otuo. I’m currently studying German, Spanish and Maths and I’ve been at Putney since Year 7. It was an incredible moment when my name was read out to become a member of the Head Girl team. I knew from Year 7 that it was a position I would forever aspire to hold, as my love for Putney and its blossoming community grew year after year.

My responsibility on the team is to post updates and notices about events and general notifications on our Prefect Facebook group and to make sure everybody has a good idea of what they are doing. Like everyone else, I also make sure that I’m asking not only prefects, but students and staff throughout the school about their school life and their outlooks on issues where I may be able to help alter or influence a change.

I’m really looking forward to working not just with the team, but with the entire Putney community. In order for things to change for the better and for our community to open itself up in all aspects, we all have to work together and allow our experiences to connect rather than separate us. From there, we grow – and I’m excited to be a part of that.