Sami Reader gets married in May 2015
Samantha Reader (Class of 2012) tied the knot with Toby Mooney on 3rd May at Blenheim Palace. Before the wedding, Sami worked as a Service Administrator at CER Ltd and Toby had joined the Army.
Samantha Reader (Class of 2012) tied the knot with Toby Mooney on 3rd May at Blenheim Palace. Before the wedding, Sami worked as a Service Administrator at CER Ltd and Toby had joined the Army.
England and Liverpool Ladies striker Natasha Dowie has joined Australian side Melbourne Victory on loan.
The 27-year-old, who scored 14 goals for the Reds this season, has agreed a two-month deal and will stay until the end of the W-League campaign. Dowie said: “I have always wanted to play abroad and experience different styles of play. I am relishing the opportunity to go out on loan.”
Victory are managed by former Bristol Academy boss Dave Edmondson . But they are bottom of the table after losing their opening five matches and seem unlikely to reach the play-offs, meaning their season would end in early January.
Dowie signed a new contract with Liverpool before the start of the season, but the Reds finished seventh in the eight-team Women’s Super League.
BBC news 18th November 2015
An ex-student, Olivia Beach (2006–13), has set up a local charity project called Kos Refugee Christmas Appeal. The aim is to fill 2,000 bags with essentials and small gifts for the refugees and then ship the filled bags to the island where a local charity will receive the delivery and distribute the bags in the days leading up to Christmas.
Olivia is looking for any volunteers to fill bags! There are 5 categories of bag; newborn, young boy, young girl, teenager and adult. If you think you would be interested in helping her with this project, please send an email to koschristmasappeal@gmail.com.
If you are a member of a local group or society that may want to fill bags, please get in touch as she is looking for local groups to fill bags together, take a photo with your bags and then send it to the project to share on social media and the website!
You can also find more information by visiting her website –
www.kosrefugeechristmasappeal.com or donate by going to the JustGiving crowdfunding page which has been set up:
www.crowdfunding.justgiving.com/Kos-Refugee-Christmas-Appeal
The RP school charity captains think it is a wonderful idea, and hope that some of you can help brighten up these people’s Christmas. Thank you.
Olivia is currently studying a 4 year BSc Politics with Economics degree at the University of Bath.
Acting sergeant Steven Alison, who grew up and attended Roundwood Park school in Harpenden, has joined the town’s safer neighbourhood team after working in the Hemel Hempstead equivalent for the past year.
For the past four years acting sergeant Alison has chaired the St Albans and Harpenden Volunteer Police Cadets for young people between the ages of 14 to 18.
He said: “I am very fond of Harpenden having grown up here, it’s a lovely place to live and I’m delighted to now be safer neighbourhood team sergeant for the town.
“I really enjoy working within safer neighbourhood teams as this type of work enables you to become involved with the communities you serve and allows you to be out and about talking to people, which I really enjoy.
“I will be focusing on our local neighbourhood priorities of tackling speeding in areas of the town, occasional anti-social behaviour issues and preventing burglary by encouraging people to join neighbourhood watch and considering simple crime prevention methods.
“Overall I am looking forward to building on the already very strong relationships we have in Harpenden to reduce crime further, bring those responsible for crime to justice and ensure the community plays an active role in helping police to keep Harpenden a safe place to live and work.”
From the Review. November 12 2015
Mike [ biology/6th form tutor] and Angie [ cover] celebrated 35 years of marriage and enjoyed an evening dinner on a paddle steamer cruising the Brisbane river. Since returning home they have both enjoyed travelling in and around Australia as well as helping out with their children and grandchildren. Mike is still involved in education in his home state of Queensland.
Former Head of Science and physics teacher in the 1970/80s, Jack Passmore, has died at his home in Marburg, Germany, after a lengthy and difficut illness on Thursday 8th October 2015 at the age of 80.
He was born in Port Talbot in 1935 and was a keen rugby enthusiast who took charge of the Senior boys rugby and used his knowledge and wit to organise and drive his team onto great things. As a teacher and a manager he always saw the fun in anything but was always incredibly well organised and focused. His physics lessons were notorious for his slow delivery and enthusiasm on some modern advances in physics. He was a real task master who drove all his students to aim for excellence and should they fail he would issue many additional corrections to his regular tests and issue essays on abstract topics such as ‘life and times of a donkey’s tail’ or ‘my life as a ping pong ball’!
He never shouted or got angry but always spoke with calm authority and you could always hear a pin drop in his lessons. He was forthright in his views but always listened to others views even if he disagreed.
Many of his ex students remember him fondly and recall that not only did he teach physics but many other essential skills and a philosophy to get them through life.
He retired early from teaching in 1990 and left for Germany where he embarked on, perhaps, the happiest chapter of his life with his new wife, Karin, whom he met whilst she was working as a language assistant at school. Together they adopted two children and set up a highly successful language college.
Jack was a passionate and gifted teacher and a most caring parent. He will be sadly missed by all those that had the good fortune to know him.
There is a new observatory on the world’s first dark sky island and Greg Dickinson takes a peek.
Greg’s latest article in the travel section of the Independent on saturday 10th October can be viewed by clicking on the following link.
More of Greg’s work can be viewed here.
Robbie Redway [class of 2005] has teamed up with Harry Agius to form AKASE and they have just released their debut single called ‘rust’.
AKASE is the natural coming together of two inquisitive musical minds. One of them, Harry Agius, comes from an accomplished electronic background, and the other, Robbie Redway, has grown up playing in numerous bands. Having been friends for years, both were keen to expand their sonic horizons and so began working together in 2012.
Inspiring and influencing each other with their own different perspectives and starting points, the ensuing years have seen the pair get together on a number of occasions for sporadic recording sessions. The unforced, non pressured nature of their collaboration has a been a good thing, though, as it lends AKASE’s music a liveliness and realness that cannot be taught.
Given Agius’ knack for writing compelling electronics as Midland, and Redway’s penchant for writing proper hooks and moving lyrics, their sound is a perfect coming together of dance and indie. Like a select number of live electronic acts before them, AKASE marry melancholy with romance, synth hooks with stirring vocals. They aren’t driven by dance floor functionality, but instead by composition and compelling musical stories. Summer 2015 will see the project coalesce proper, with a debut album, Graspers, having been signed by influential label !K7 and live shows to follow. As such, get ready for a refreshing new addition to the thriving little niche where dance, sombre avant pop and indie all collide.
Information courtesy of their web page https://soundcloud.com/akase-music
Angela Clarke, of Normandy Terrace, St Albans, author of Confessions of a Fashionista and writer of The Legacy, her debut play loosely based on Harpenden, won the Young Stationers’ Award for accomplishment and promise last Monday (20).
The writer was up against tough competition, including national journalists and publishers, and was very surprised to hear she was the winner.
Angela said: “I was really surprised. I didn’t expect to win it. I was really, really delighted, and really, really honoured.”
The award comes as part of a busy year for Angela, who hopes now to write ‘a play and a book a year’.
Angela joked: “If anyone sees me walking round town looking tired, give me coffee.”
She recently moved away from her comedic roots to write a crime novel which she is currently editing.
From The Herts Advertiser, Harpenden Edition ; 30 the July 2015
Greg Dickinson [Class of 2008 & Ex Head Boy] is currently the Travel Editor at Rough Guides. He has most recently published an article on his exploits on a bike in France wending his way from the Normandy coast of Caen to the Atlantic coast of La Rochelle.
To read the full article as it appeared in The Independent on Saturday 11th July 2015 click on the this link.
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