Priscilla Parsons

Priscilla Parsons is the main antagonist in The Sixth Form at St Clares. She is a sixth former.

History
Priscilla is too young to leave St Clare's School, so she is left down in the sixth form. She lives in the same town as Joan Terry.

Priscilla looks forward to the 'agony aunt' sessions in order to find out the younger girls' secrets and use them. She has to share a study with Anne-Marie Longden. Priscilla lectures Dora and Daphne Lacey after their disgrace, and they are defiant. She bullies Joan into siding against the twins, making the twins hostile. Priscilla overhears the first formers deciding to have a midnight party, and asks Ruth and Susan, two girls involved in complaints at the agony aunt sessions, to do some jobs for her. She blabs from the sessions, causing rows and accusations to blow up in the first form. The younger years make the decision to boycott the next session, and then Hilda and Katie go along to the head girls Pat and Isabel O'Sullivan and inform them of Priscilla's behaviour. Hilda accidentally lets slip about the midnight party, and Pat and Isabel suggest feeding Priscilla false information about the time of the party. Meanwhile, Priscilla has bullied Joan into informing her of the party, and Joan relays the false information. Priscilla is predictably made to look wrong about the feast and is sent to Miss Theobald, who bars her from the sessions. Priscilla corners Joan and discovers the sixth form conspired with the first form for her humiliation. In retaliation, she makes Joan thieve from the sixth formers. Joan does this, but leaves out Alison O'Sullivan, thus leading the sixth to deduce that she is the culprit. Alison confronts Joan and realises that Priscilla has been blackmailing Joan, as Joan's father is in prison and Priscilla threatened to tell the whole school. Alison informs the rest of the sixth form, who tell Miss Theobald, who promptly expels Priscilla.

Trivia

 * When Pat and Isabel tell the first formers how to catch Priscilla out, they mention Elsie Fanshawe and her disgrace in Second Form at St Clares