Wycombe High School Guild Annual Reunion on Saturday 30 June 2012
Details to follow soon.
Programme
12.00 pm Reception in The Forum
12.30 pm Buffet Lunch in The Forum followed by coffee
2.30 pm Guest Speaker - Claire Davis (followed by the Guild AGM)
4.30 pm Tea
This year’s guest speaker is Claire Davis
Claire Davis attended WHS from 1990 -1996 and studied Spanish, French, Music and Geography to A Level. She graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2000 with BA Honours in Hispanic Studies, a four Year Course which included one year at the University of Veracruz, Mexico. She then spent a gap year teaching English to all levels at the International Language Institute, Bolívar, Colombia. On her return to the UK she worked as a Senior Project Manager for a translation company for 4 years, after which she spent 8 months teaching English in Mexico.
Since then she has combined translator and interpreter roles with travel, including 3 months in Rio de Janeiro taking an intensive course in Portuguese. From June to October this year she worked as a project manager and interpreter with Raleigh International leading teams of 17-24 year olds in community and environmental projects in Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
For the past 2 years she has worked as a part-time Fun Club joint team leader organising theme nights for adults with special needs. In addition to her language qualifications, she also achieved distinction in the OU level 2 course “International Development: Challenges for a World in Transition”; has certificates in fundraising skills and TEFL. She is currently taking the postgraduate certificate in Field Leadership at Birkbeck College, London. She loves “to work with and meet new people especially from other cultures”.
The cost for lunch, including wine or soft drinks and coffee, with afternoon tea to conclude, is £16. To book your place, please complete and return the form to the Guild Administrator at WHS, with your cheque for the appropriate amount, payable to Wycombe High School Guild, by 20 April 2012 please.
Join us
If you are an ex-student or former member of staff from Wycombe High School or Lady Verney please join us and catch up with old school friends and former teachers over a delicious buffet lunch 5 March. Explore WHS and have your photo taken with your old classmates and above all, have fun! Below you will find a link to a poster that you can send to friends and family encouraging them to join in the festivities. We look forward to seeing you.
Guild Lifetime Membership
For the first time we are encouraging existing students to consider joining the Guild – Wycombe High School’s student association. Every student has the opportunity to join the Guild on her entry to school, by paying a modest one off payment, or five instalments. To find out more, please down load a description of benefits and order form here Order Form The Wycombe High School Guild is an organisation for all former students of Wycombe High School plus present and past members of staff.
The story of the Guild began in 1910, nine years after the School was founded, and the first pupils had become 'old girls'. Many were anxious not to lose touch with each other and the School and as a result, the idea of the 'Old Girls Guild' developed, warmly welcomed by Miss Christie the first Headmistress.
Photos from the Wycombe High School Guild Grand Centenary Reunion can be bought here from
EVP Event Photos. There is also a collection of free photos on the school's VLE
click here.
You can also see a short pictorial presentation summarising the history of the Guild - click on the link below.
Guild members are potentially a tremendous resource for WHS as there are numerous ways in which Guild members can become involved in the life of the School, to the benefit of the girls. Please let us have your suggestions. We should like to develop a directory of members - a Who’s Who of past Wycombe High School students.
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