PGHS celebrates 105 years with a Founder’s Day Service and Old Girls’ Reunion

On 8th May 1905 Palmers Green High School and Kindergarten was opened by its founder, Miss Alice Hum. Originally located in Number 1, Osborne Road, Palmers Green, the school had twelve pupils when it began, but by 1918 the school had grown to 300 pupils and had moved to Avondale Hall, in Hoppers Road. Although the Avondale Hall site is where the school is currently located, pupils from the early days would hardly recognise PGHS now since many renovations, alterations and additions have taken place since that time.

To celebrate this special date in the school calendar, the whole school and their families were invited to attend a Founder's Day service at St John's Church on Friday 7th May at 2pm. All staff members, the school Governors and members of the Old Girls Association were also invited to toast the celebratory cutting of the Founder's Day cake by our Head Girl, Soraya Murat and Deputy Head Girl, Rebecca Mensah. An Old Girls' Reunion was also held on Sunday 9th May where Dame Margaret Seward, a former PGHS pupil, was invited as a guest speaker.

Click here to see photographs of Founder's Day and Old Girls’ Reunion