Afternoon Tea A Success

Our afternoon tea to help celebrate 40 years of girls being educated at Bablake was a resounding success last weekend.

The event, organised so seamlessly by Mrs Sylvia O'Sullivan (Alumni Relations Officer) and Mrs Kayleigh Lacey (Alumni Database Clerk) with assistance from our archivist Mr Peter Burden, was held in our Main Library. We are also pleased to report that almost all 'the girls of the Class of 1975' attended the reunion.

Following tours around the school, the day concluded with some of the boys from the same year joining everyone for a light supper and a few short speeches. 

We also received some lovely feedback from our guests: 

• "As always you captured the warmth of Bablake in the welcome and care of us all…"
• "I particularly enjoyed the opportunity to roam around the school unaccompanied - revisiting our old haunts with my classmates was like revisiting my youth and has left me feeling 30 years younger!"
• "It was a great idea to have the prefects showing us around - what terrific young people they are! They were confident and polite, with lots of other qualities too, I am sure; exactly what Bablake is about!"
• "The school put on a great show for us all, so please thank all the staff and pupils involved."
• "As I sat and listened to the current Head and pupils, I felt so proud to have been a part of Bablake's history and also so privileged. What a great place it was and very clearly still is!"
• "What a huge treat it was to be back in our amazing school! How wonderfully it has developed and blended old with new - both in its physical resources and buildings, and in the capturing of the wonderful community feel in the 21st century."