If you are an old Boy or Girl of our school you’ll want to join our ex-students association. It’s a great way of keeping in touch. You will receive a regular newsletter and invitations to events. Please keep us informed of your news (births, deaths, marriages etc) and any reunions you may be planning. Our Secretary, Lee Chirnside, can be contacted via the school.
Class of 45 – It’s 60 years since you started at King Edward’s!!
A reunion is planned for 21 June at the Ridley Arms Stannington at 12.00pm.
Contact Bill Stafford on 01670 – 812988
The Annual General Meeting will be held at the School on Thursday 19 May at 7.30pm. There will be refreshments and a quiz. All welcome.
Book your tickets now for a great evening where you can catch up with old friends. Why not make up a party of your classmates.
Put this date in your diary: Saturday 8 October at 7.30pm at the School.
Ex students are warmly invited to visit our fabulous museum.We have artefacts going back hundreds of years.
Contact Katrina Mackay at the school for a visit.
Jonathan Story, 16 yrs, who won a piano scholarship to the Chethams School of Music in Manchester. Jonathan starts in September and hopes to become a professional pianist.
Chris Mole has been ssheadhunted by a National Company thanks to his successful dotcom business enterprises. Chris will manage Evesham's new and 2 students division with the aim of building on his expertise in supplying low cost computer equipment to students. Chris will be plotting the division's marketing strategy through 17 nationwide outlets.
Former pupil Alistair Craig has joined the 'Morpeth Herald' reporting team after completing his preliminary journalism training at Darlington College. On leaving school, Alistair studied for a degree in environmental sciences at Huddersfield.
Former Head Girl, Lucy Taynton has scooped a top marketing award. Lucy was commended as Top Marketing Student by the Chartered Institute of Marketing at an awards event at St James' Park in Newcastle. Lucy works in trade marketing at Jackel International and completed the Advanced Certificate in Marketing at Gateshead College.
The KEVI School has won a £2,000 BT. Schools award in partnership with Century FM. which will fund a community project, helping pupils involved develop communication skills and citizenship programmes. The school was one of 240 winners chosen from more that 950 entries across the U.K. After the projects have been completed in July 2004, the best 3 will be selected and the schools will become national winners earning an extra £10,000.
Elliot Colley, 17 yrs, left school last summer with nine GCSE's. He has joined chartered quantity surveyors, Henry Riley as a Modern Apprentice. The new scheme at NVQ level 3 will last 2 years. Elliot says 'this apprenticeship offers work experience with an industry recognised qualification at the end'.
Beverley Clark has won £100 for the school Chemistry department at the University of York, where she plans to read Chemistry after her 'A' levels. She also won a book voucher and £25 cash for her own use. Beverley guessed that the cost of Chemistry equipment used during the first year of a degree course would be £400.01, not far off the £400.51 it actually cost.
The RGS Newcastle was where pupils Carly Sells and Steven Forster saw off the opposition in a debate in which they were required to argue in favour of Nuclear Power. They each had to prepare a seven minute speech setting out their argument and to answer points of information from the opposition, in this case Church High School, Newcastle. Carly and Steven are looking forward to the regional final of the English Speaking Union's Debating Competition.
A KEVI student picked up an achievement award at the Assembly Rooms. Steven Bridget, 16 yrs, paid tribute to Head Teacher Mrs Mann for her support. He has been involved in bringing Youth Issues into the local government forum via Rothbury and Alnwick's Strategic Plan team. Steven is now considering entering politics as a career.
The top prize for innovation was presented by the Duchess of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle to a team of students aged 14-17. Their Young Enterprise North East award was for managing and funding KEVI Radio, which they ran as a business. In the interests of cost effectiveness, the station, which has been entertaining pupils over the last year, features only original music written and performed by students.
Engineering students, Emma Franklin, Robert Burnell, Neil Oliver and James Parmley have recently visited Newcastle University to present their design for a wind-powered street lamp. The team carried out their project under the Engineering Education Scheme, intended sixth formers to the world of Engineering.
Morpeth Rugby Club held a lunch on April 17 th for past players, organised by John Robson, a former Club President. Among those attending were 25 founder members of MRC, Mike McKenzie who played for Morpeth in the 60's and was a Scottish International, Joe Mckay who was captain between 1955-58 and Sid Waddell who played between 1960-62. John Wheatley presented the club with a commemorative picture of a Roses Match between Yorkshire and Lancashire at Bradford in 1893.
Dr Edward Chester has been working on the Beagle 2 Mission since March 2003 at the Lander Operational Control Centre in Leicester. Edward read Physics at Durham University and completed a Masters and PhD. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Newcastle University. In 2002 he joined the International Space University in California, sponsored by the European Space Agency. He then joined the Beagle 2 Mission at the Space Research Centre where he is the I.T. Support Manager.
Old girl Doris (Dolly) Wardel recently celebrated her 100 th Birhday. After leaving Morpeth High School, Dolly went to Sunderland Polytechnic where she was one of only two women on the Pharmacy course there. She graduated with flying colours and with a colleague set up what is now called Unichem, a scheme where pharmacies order drugs together.
Head Teacher Mrs Mann joined up with ten other Head Teachers on a fact-finding mission to Moscow then on to Omsk in Siberia, organised by the British Council. The aim of the visit was to see how the Russians educate their most gifted pupils. Mrs Mann was very impressed by the children's eagerness to learn and by the standard of teaching. The schools that were observed were run down and lacked equipment, even books had to be paid for by parents. The schools, despite their disadvantages, aroused her admiration and made her wonder if they had something to teach us.
G. A. Anderson 1927-1932
George Alan Anderson began work at Dunlop's in Newcastle then joined the Metropolitan Police. He received several commendations including one for swimming across the Thames in pursuit of a criminal. After army service during which he became Provost Marshall in Nairobi, he returned to the Colonial police. In 1956 he was awarded the Colonial Police Medal and in 1962 the Queen's Police Medal for Meritorious Service. In 1964 he retired with the rank of Senior Assistant Commissioner and Head of CID. After some years working in Narcotics in Geneva, he became Deputy Police Advisor on Police matters in Rhodesia before it became Zimbabwe. He died in Haywards Heath, W. Sussex on November 17 th.
E. Rotstein (Mitchell) 1933-1938
Elspeth was a member of the Old Girls' Association and then became the 1 st Vice Chairman of the Edwardians Association in 1974 and Chairman in 1976.
H. Robson (Jackson) 1938-1943
Helen, daughter of E. C. Jackson, Town Clerk of Morpeth, was a solicitor with Brumell and Sample in Morpeth for 10 years. She was treasurer of the High School Old Girls' Association, a member of Morpeth Music Society, a Guider and a member of the Morpeth branch of the English Folk Dance Society. In 1958 she married Frank Robson, an old boy of the Grammar School and also a solicitor. They lived in Oxfordshire where Helen was involved with many local activities as well as bringing up 5 children and practicing law. She loved Northumberland and with Frank and their family came back as often as possible. The funeral was at Stanton St. John on March 24 th and friends of Helen and Frank met for a memorial service on April 27 th at St James' Church, Morpeth.
