50th Anniversary Celebration

Two years in the making and finally the day was here. 50 years ago Bushey Grammar School and Alexandra

School merged to create Queens' School. On Saturday 14th September 2019 Queens' School held a day of

two events for all ex-pupils and current/ex staff to celebrate the 50th Anniversary. The first event of the day

consisted of an Afternoon Tea where 167 people attended and were also able to walk around both the North

and South sides bringing back their own memories of their time spent at Queens'.

In the evening, 256 people attended and joined in

with an Evening Party. Food was provided by

Spitting Pig and music by the live band of Beatroute.

The North side was available for people to walk

around. Raffle tickets were sold throughout both

events raising over £1,000 and was drawn during the

evening by Mr Morrell, Mr James and Mr Scarth.

All attendees were registered in at each function on house coloured registers receiving a label with their

name, house colour and year that they started Queens' to make everyone easily recognisable. Everyone went

home with a gift of a specially designed Queens' 50th mug and pen. Ex-pupils who were unable to attend

have also been purchasing mugs following the event and the furthest a mug has travelled so far is to

America.

Throughout the day a screen show of old photos was constantly run in the North canteen and this room was

decorated with lots of old photos and memorabilia. The QPA ran a bar throughout both events in two shifts.

As well as celebrating 50 years of the school, rekindling of old friendships was the aim of the day and this

was more than achieved. So many people are now back in touch with each other with groups being created

on Watsapp and Facebook. Everyone who attended commented on what a fantastic day it had been and

asked when the next one was happening.

Mugs are £5.00 each and there are only 25 left should anyone wish to purchase one. We also have 95 pens

left costing £1.00 each. If you wish to make a purchase please contact: tina.beaviswhite@ntlworld.com

Lots of thanks go to Tina Beavis-White, Kristina Davis and Rakesh Patel for all their hard work over the last

2 years and for raising over £5,000 for the school.