Alumnae News

Did you donate a brick for our Millennium playground? Over the summer, we will be re-laying the bricks into our newly designed Oakwood Sixth Form garden. If your name is on a brick, please let us know! We'd like to invite everyone who donated to the project to a special re-dedication ceremony at our Alumnae Reunion in March 2023.

Thank you Olivia Rubin (Class of 2000), Meheen Rangoonwala (class of 2001) and Gemma Perlin (class of 2009) for sharing their career stories in our Motivational Monday series on our website and LinkedIn. If you would like to feature, please let us know.

Thank you to Art Curator Kira Wainstein, Copywriter Kim Laidlaw and Behaviour Change Coach Gemma Perlin for speaking to students as part of our careers Futures Programme, Fashion Designer Olivia Rubin who spoke to GCSE Fashion and Textile students, Amanda Dewinter for speaking about her book 'The Success Code', Film Producer and GDST Alumna of the Year finalist Negeen Yazdi who spoke at assembly and Nadia Odunayo who spoke about her reading suggestions app The StoryGraph.

Alumnae, parents, students and staff are invited to this year's 'Towards 150 Concert Series' where the Leonore Piano Trio, made up of renowned cellist and alumna Gemma Rosefield, pianist Ben Nabarro and violinist Tim Horton, will perform in the Waterlow Hall on Wednesday, 12th October.

We invite all alumnae from the Class of 2021 back to South Hampstead for reunion drinks with school friends and staff on Tuesday, 6th September at 5pm. 

We invite the Class of 2017 back to mark five years since leaving South Hampstead and to meet up with friends and staff. Please make a note of the date: Thursday, 3rd November. Further details will be sent to you via email.

This term we launched 'Class of' Bursary appeals with our 1981 and 1982 alumnae. We plan to extend this initiative to more cohorts to encourage alumnae to join together as year groups and support bursaries. If you would like to get involved, please contact us.

Do you have a favourite recipe that you'd like to share with the SHHS community? Staff members Sara Bell and Vicky Spawls are compiling a cookery book to raise awareness and funds for our bursary scheme. Thank you for all the recipes received so far. We are looking for contributions from alumnae, particularly those who studied at South Hampstead on financial assistance.

We're proud to extend our partnerships in the local community. Our Debate Hub continues to promote oracy to more partner school pupils; our music students visited our neighbouring Holy Trinity Primary School to lead music lessons; we have established a teacher exchange with UCL Academy and through our links with the Royal Free Charity, students help out on the wards at our local hospital.

We have welcomed six Ukrainian refugee children to South Hampstead; all places are fully funded, including extras such as uniform, iPads and trips. We are grateful to members of the community for supporting these pupils through donations to our Bursaries and Assistance Fund.

At our inaugural 1876 Society meeting, named after South Hampstead's founding year, we celebrated the progress we have made towards our ambition to double our bursary provision.

 Thank you for voting for Film Producer Negeen Yazdi and disability Activist Grace Spence Green. We were so pleased that two former pupils were shortlisted for this year's GDST Alumna of the Year Awards. The winners will be announced in the autumn. 

Go paperless in 2022! With sustainability in mind, we also offer a digital version of our alumnae magazine Resplendens (as opposed to a paper postal copy). If you'd like to receive a digital copy in the autumn term, please let us know. 

To find out more about how we're progressing on bursaries at South Hampstead, read our latest bursary newsletter here. 

The Minerva Circle recognises all who have made a commitment to South Hampstead through a legacy gift or pledge. We also are delighted to announce that GDST has partnered with Farewill, and anyone in our community can access their free will writing service.

Boost your networking and keep in touch with us by updating your contact details on our online portal and following the SHHS LinkedIn page. You can also join the GDST Life Alumnae Network connecting you with the wider GDST community and giving you access to GDST alumnae career specific networks, online resources and discussion groups.