aylesbury high school alumni newsletter april 2019...
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Aylesbury High School Alumni Newsletter April 2019
For further Alumni information please contact Alison Pexton, Development and Alumni Relations Director, [email protected] or 01296 388222
Re-connecting With Former Staff
AYLESBURY HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI April 2019
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60th Birthday Celebration
Saturday 6th July
Update
Thank you to everyone who has
contacted us about tickets for our
Celebration Day in July.
Slightly later than we expected,
we will be releasing tickets for the
Alumni Afternoon Cream Tea
over the course of the next two
weeks. These will be available to
purchase online.
More details to follow!
60th Birthday High Life Magazines
Our Sixth Form History and English
Ambassadors have been hard at work
producing a series of three High Life
magazines in celebration of our 60th
Anniversary this year.
This 60th Birthday project has allowed
these Ambassadors to record what they
have learnt through the tradition of
student publications during anniversary
years, and to use their creativity to bring
our school's history alive for current and
future students, and our wider AHS
community.
They have greatly enjoyed coming up with
article ideas, engaging with Alumni and
exploring our AHS Archives, as they
created a lasting legacy for our 60th
Birthday Celebrations.
The first of the three High Life Magazines
is now completed. Please click here to
access your copy. We do hope you enjoy
reading it (and reminiscing)! Edition 1 of High Life Magazine 1959-1979
For those of you who have
been following our work to
grow our AHS Alumni
network, we have now
almost 3 ,000 Alumni
contacts; comprising former
students and staff.
The quest to reconnect with
as many Alumni as we can
has been especially difficult,
since we lost valuable
contact information from
our 50th Anniversary (and
some people married and
changed their names!).
We are particularly pleased
to have reconnected with so
many of our former staff and
to catch up on news of their
careers and AHS memories.
Mentioned often in our
Alumni Living History
interviews are former AHS
teachers, Peggy and Nan
Cattell. We were delighted
to visit them at their home
recently and they both were
in good health and good
spirits. They each have vivid
memories of their time at
AHS, and kindly donated
their Programme from the
AHS Opening Day in 1959 to
our AHS Archive.
We were also very pleased
to welcome back to AHS
former Headteacher, Jane
W a i n w r i g h t , w h o
volunteered to take part in a
Living History interview last
week. This provided us with
valuable insights in to AHS
from a different perspective
and we were pleased to
discover new information
to include in our AHS
history book. Jane had a
brief tour of AHS to see our
recent development work,
and met with current
students and former
colleagues from her time here.
We hope that Jane and
many other former staff will
be able to attend our 60th
Ce lebrat ion Day on
Saturday 6th July, to meet
each other again and to visit
our AHS Archive exhibition.
If you are in contact with
any former members of staff
(or students), please
en cou r a ge t h em to
reconnect with us as soon
as possible, by emailing
Alison Pexton: we would
love to hear from them!
Aylesbury High School Alumni Newsletter April 2019
For further Alumni information please contact Alison Pexton, Development and Alumni Relations Director, [email protected] or 01296 388222
Aylesbury High School
Walton Road
Aylesbury
HP21 7SX
01296 388222
www.ahs.bucks.sch.uk
@AylesburyHigh
60th Birthday Celebration
Alumni Volunteer News
We are finalising the details for
our Alumni celebrations on the
60th Birthday Celebration Day,
and will be in contact with all
those who have kindly
volunteered their help on the
day, shortly.
If you have not responded yet
and would be happy to help us,
please contact Alison Pexton at
Any help that you can offer on
the morning or afternoon of
Saturday 6th July would be
appreciated!
Thank You For Joining
Our Community Choir!
Please remember that we are
planning two rehearsals with as
many people present as
possible.
These will take place at AHS in
the Drama Studio on:
8t.h June 9.00 - 10.30 am
29th June 9.00 - 10.30 am
Additionally, there will be a
rehearsal on Saturday 6th July,
before the performance.
If you have not yet signed up,
we do hope that you would like
to get involved - please fill in this
form and return it to us, to let
us know that you would like to
join us!
Do you have a photograph of
yourself with an iconic
hairstyle: one that you would
be happy to share with us?
Our Sixth Form students are
researching hairstyles from the
past 60 years, to contribute to
articles for the High Life
magazines they are writing, and would really appreciate
your support!
Whether you had Farrah
Flicks, Lady Di’s Sloane Style,
The Pob, or The Fringe; we
would really love to see your
photos and use them for our
High Life magazine!
If you can, please email your
photo to Alison Pexton at
Hairstyles We Were Proud Of!
AHS 60th Anniversary History Book, Archive and Heritage Website
Over the past year we have
been working hard to
collate all the information
we have about Aylesbury
High School, to create a
legacy for future students in
commemoration of our
60th Anniversary.
We have reached out to
reconnect with our former
students and staff, and have
welcomed the support we
have received for our
Women Who Inspire, Living
History and Arch ive
initiatives.
We are now delighted to
confirm that we will have a
comprehensive archive
display, access to our soon-
to-be-launched heritage
website, and our first AHS
History Book; for our 60th
Anniversary celebrations
on Saturday 6th July.
We would like to thank
everyone who has
c o n t r i b u t e d t h e i r
memories, memorabilia
and photographs for
making this possible, and
for keeping our AHS
history alive!