Ex-pupil Paul Fellows recently passed away. Paul left our school in 1966 along with his brother Philip. Sadly Philip also passed away 10 years ago in December 2006.
Tony
21 May 2016
We are sad to learn former pupil Michael Derbyshire, who left our school in 1964, has passed away. Our thoughts are with his wife Betty, family and friends.
26 March 2016
News in from Mr Birkby: sadly Mrs Goodall passed away in the nursing home on Thursday 24 March. She had been in the nursing home for a while after suffering a bad stroke. Our thoughts go to those who knew her.
15 March 2016
A couple of staff news: some of you may remember Mrs Goodall, who was a teacher in the Junior School and organised the Brownies. When she retired she became caretaker at Glamis Castle in Scotland. Now Mrs Goodall is in a nursing home after suffering a bad stroke.
Also Mr Fyles has been in hospital for a while but is hoping to be discharged soon.
16 February 2016
Mr Birkby has been in touch to say Mr Bancroft sadly passed away last week following a long illness. Mr Bancroft’s funeral will be taking place this Friday (19th) at Southport Crematorium at 10am. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.
6 February 2016
The Reunion Committee wishes to announce this year’s Reunion at the Masonic Hall in Southport will be taking place on Saturday 8 October. Tickets cost £7 each and these can be ordered now. We are able once again to offer a low ticket price thanks to receiving a grant from the Birkdale Trust to help with costs.
5 January 2016
Pupils from the class of 1988 are getting together for a reunion this Spring. If you don’t know anything about this event, please contact Jill Pearce (nee Morriss) on rebjillpearce@gmail.com for more details.
24 December 2015
Angela Richmond has posted in the Guestbook to tell us that Clare Skorupinska, who left our school in 1989, has recently passed away. Her funeral was held on Wednesday 23 December. Our thoughts go to her family and friends at this difficult time.
5 October 2015
The result of the Public Inquiry held in August has been announced. The Planning Inspectorate has rejected Centremodel’s appeal on development plans for the land and buildings of our school. The rejection mainly concerns the spacing and layout of the proposed development, which was considered to be too detrimental to the surrounding conservation area.
Update – 7 Oct: The Champion newspaper ran an article on its front page about the developer’s losing their appeal in this week’s edition of the paper.
3 October 2015
Another former pupil, Emily Law, has sadly died at the age of 37. This news has come as a shock to all who knew Emily and our thoughts are with them all at this sad time.