Pamela Boardman

Pamela "Pam" Boardman is a student of St Clare's School. She appears in Summer Term at St Clares and Fifth Formers of St Clares.

History
In Summer Term at St Clares, Pam joins St Clare's as a thirteen year old girl who studied very hard. Prudence Arnold latches onto her so she can pick her brains. When Prudence suspects Carlotta Brown is breaking the rules, she convinces Pam to come on a nature walk under false pretences to spy on Carlotta. Pam begins to feel uncomfortable and realises what a hypocrite Prudence is. Prudence makes Pam come on another walk to the circus, where she discovers the rest of Carlotta's secret, much to Pam's discomfort. Prudence exposes Carlotta to the form, who are delighted, and the form choose to send both Prudence and Pam to Coventry. The first formers laugh at Pam's half-hearted attempts to stand up for Prudence, although Pam neither likes nor trusts Prudence by this point. Pam and Prudence meet a man on a bicycle in the lane, who asks them to deliver a note to a girl at St Clare's. Not bothering to read the name on the envelope, Prudence assumes it is for Carlotta and tells Pam to deliver it. Pam goes to Matron with a burning headache and feeling ill. Miss Theobald concludes her illness is overwork and unhappiness. When Prudence is exposed as a mischief maker, Miss Theobald asks Carlotta to befriend Pam.

When the rest of the first form go up into the second form, Pam is kept down due to her age and becomes head girl of the first form. At the second form concert, she overhears Miss Quentin falsely taking the credit for Gladys Hillman's performance.

At some point after Second Form at St Clares, Pam leaves, but misses the school so much her parents sent her back, to join her original form in Fifth Formers of St Clares. Pam shares a study with Doris Elward, and she helps Doris to learn a French poem by acting it out for Mam'zelle. She works steadily through her exams and does well. She is kept down again when the others go in the sixth form, but Miss Theobald mentions her as a candidate for a future head girl of the school.