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400th Anniversary News
Historical Exhibition - view our new display panels, launched on 22nd January 2013! May 2013
400th Anniversary Football Match - Owen's v Arsenal Academy
March 2013 Royal Albert Hall and St Paul's/Mansion House Old Owenian ticket holders!
February 2013 New Science Building Work in Progress! See how we're getting on in our Photo Gallery! January 2013 It's arrived - our 400th anniversary year! And we've had two milestone occasions already to mark the beginning of our new Science building and a new chapter in our history with the unveiling of our historical display and the cutting of our huge celebration cake! For more details (photos and reports) see our webpage, Latest News, (Spring Term, first half, w/c 14th January and w/c 21st January) - taster photos below!
December 2012
November 2012 Royal Albert Hall members have now been asked to donate their tickets for our event to the school. For more details on how you may still have the opportunity to buy tickets, please see our RAH webpage. October 2012 The 6th meeting of the 400th Anniversary Main Committee was held on Tuesday 23rd October to review plans for our 400th events and appeal. An updated programme of events is available above. The next meeting is on Tuesday 26th February 2013. We are looking forward to our first event to launch the year of celebrations on Tuesday 22nd January 2013, which will include the unveiling of our new historical display. Your 400th Committee members are as follows: Governor Representatives: Mr Peter Martin – Chair of Governors (Committee Vice Chair), Mr Tom Imber – Foundation Governor, Mrs Carol James – Parent Governor, Mr Edward Guinness – Former Governor and honorary member, Mr David Ross – Clerk to Governors, Clerk to Brewers September 2012 Old Owenians Newsletter - 28th September 2012, Edition 7, now available! DO NOT BUY Royal Albert Hall tickets on resale sites! We have been made aware that some tickets for our event at the Royal Albert Hall are now being sold on resale sites. These could be false tickets, although some could be Royal Albert Hall members seats. The Royal Albert Hall Box Office have recommended us to advise our school community not to purchase tickets via these resale websites. Royal Albert Hall members have the choice of selling their tickets via agents but if not sold, they can return them to the Royal Albert Hall Box Office to sell at the original price. We hope further tickets will be available early in the New Year from Royal Albert Hall member returns, which include seats in the stalls and a certain number of boxes, although we cannot guarantee how many or when. 400th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall - April 2013 - (posted Tuesday 25th September)
Orders must be placed by Friday 19th October 2013! See our Payments webpage: http://www.damealiceowens.herts.sch.uk/wisepay.html 400th Anniversary Concert - Royal Albert Hall Tickets will be on sale from 9am, Monday 24th September 2012. See our 400th Concert webpage for more details! August 2012 New Science Building - work gets under way! Contractors started on site week commencing 13th August - see photos below from the first few days of activity and the diagram of the architects landscaping!
We are continuing to encourage donations for our New Science Building appeal to match government funds to ensure its completion at the end of next year - you can read more information on our webpage - 400th Anniversary Appeal. Thank you for your ongoing support. June 2012 Old Owenians Newsletter - 27th June 2012 - now available! Science Building Bid for Government Funds SUCCESSFUL! Please see message below from Dr Alan Davison to parents - Dear Parents Government funding (£2.79m) secured for our new Science block I am delighted to inform you that I received confirmation last night that the School has been successful in its bid to the Department for £2.79m for a new Science block. You may be interested to know this constitutes 1.1% of all funding committed to the academy capital maintenance for this financial year. I am confident this will make a significant difference to the learning opportunities for students at the School. The sting in the tail is that, in order to secure this funding, the Governors have had to commit to raising £3m from our own funds. At present, we have secured £2m from the Dame Alice Owen Foundation in addition to our fundraising which exceeded £510k this week. This has been as a result of a very generous donation of £100k by a former student and our effort in successfully securing £50k from the Wolfson Trust. We are now redoubling our efforts to raise the additional £490k needed and to ensure that the Science block is ready in time for our 400th anniversary year. I would like to thank all parents who wrote to their MP for their support, which I am certain made a real difference to our prospects and helped ensure we secured the bid. I am also very grateful to those parents who have generously donated to the fundraising appeal. Yours sincerely Dr Alan Davison
May 2012 Summary update! Our Old Owenians now have the opportunity to be directly involved in our school with participation in Careers weeks and volunteering work experience placements and we publish an Old Owenians quarterly newsletter via our 400th email list, which now has over 2,750 Old Owenians signed up. Our appeal committee has raised £400K towards a £1m target for our new science building. Updates have been given to students in assemblies; staff, governors and parents in our Half Term Newsletters and Old Owenians via their Old Owenians Newsletter about our celebration event at the Royal Albert Hall and thanksgiving service at St Paul's Cathedral. March 2012
Old Owenians Newsletter - 28th March 2012 - now available - click link for details! Includes invitation to our first !
November 2011
Harold Moore Annual Luncheon Reunion a great success - see photographs on Old Owenians School News page! October 2011 - Extract from Half Term Newsletter from Dr Alan Davison "I would like again to thank all parents who have supported the 400th appeal. I am pleased to say that the current total stands at just under £250,000 raised out of the £1m that we need to ensure that the building of the new science block commences at the end of the 400th anniversary year. We are currently in the process of bidding to a number of Trusts and Firms and we are optimistic that we will achieve our £1 Million total in time for the close of the anniversary year. We would be very grateful for any parents who feel they are able to support us financially in this goal or have contacts with any Corporate or Trust bodies that may be willing to support the much need to rebuild the science block. I would like to remind parents of key dates of the anniversary year which are: Tuesday 23rd April 2013 – Royal Albert Hall 7pm (please note this date will be finally confirmed when our tickets are advertised through the Royal Albert Hall Box Office), Tuesday 30th April 2013 – St Paul’s Cathedral 1.15pm, Monday 16th December 2013‐ St Albans Cathedral 7.30pm"
April 2011 - March 2011 - 400th Anniversary New Science Building Appeal Page Now Live, explaining our Appeal and how you can help us reach our £1million target by 31st December 2013. Please take time to consider how you would like to donate to our campaign by browsing the various options and read Next meeting of the 400th Anniversary Main Committee: Tuesday 21st June 1-3pm, Old Library
February 2011 - December 2010 - see an update in our Christmas School Newsletter (400th Anniversary Committee meeting held on the 7th December, 400th Anniversary e-mailing list set up for Old Owenians to keep in touch, request for historical articles or information for our 400th Anniversary Exhibition, 400th Logo design) November 2010 - Her logo was chosen for its simple design and effective message, "400 years of learning excellence". Our Head of Art, Mr S Willcock is transferring her design to the Apple Mac for it to be used on all promotional material for the 2013 celebrations - the final artwork will be published in the end of term newsletter in December. Special mention must also go to Ben Purkiss of 10LCO, Callum Brooks of 7SAL and an unnamed entry featuring a Knights helmet for their efforts. October 2010 - September 2010 - August 2010 Two main items were on our agenda – what events should be planned to celebrate our 400 year history and what Appeal focus and target should be associated with the occasion. The proposed 400th Anniversary Programme of Events for the calendar year 2013 was reviewed in the light of what had been arranged for the 350th Anniversary in 1963, combined with events that currently take place during the school year. It was agreed that the Appeal should raise funds to contribute to the already planned, much needed new Science Block, which will support our Specialism and invest in the future of Scientists at the school. A separate sub committee is to be set up to concentrate on the Appeal and determine targets, dates and marketing. Our next meeting is on Tuesday 7th December, 2010. If anyone would like more details or would like to contribute ideas, please contact: englishm@damealiceowens.herts.sch.uk. Thank you for reading our update, more after the next meeting! 400th Anniversary Committee (July 2010) please log into the secure area via the VLE link above for details of meetings and associated papers.  You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 or a higher version to open PDF files. If you don't already have Acrobat Reader you can download it free from Adobe's web site. |
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