Bishop’s Hatfield Alumni Association (formerly Bishop’s Old Girls’ Association)
We are keen to hear from ex-students and encourage them to keep connected through our Alumni network on our Future First Hub and social media platforms
If you’re a former student of Bishop’s Hatfield Girls’ School, we want to hear from you! In may 2023, we partnered with national education charity Future First, who specialise in helping schools like ours to stay connected with their former students. We use a digital platform that allows you to connect with former school friends, as well as enabling you to seek career advice and opportunities for yourself. Your experiences since leaving Bishop’s could help motivate and inspire our current students to feel more confident in making decisions about their future. We would love you to join our alumni network and stay connected with the school. It doesn’t matter when you left us, whether you are in further education or employment, whether you live nearby or have moved further away. You can still be part of our alumni community. There is even an option to run private groups for pupils of the same intake year if you wish to do so. To sign up, simply follow this link or scan the QR code below and fill in the online form – it only takes a couple of minutes: https://www.futurefirsthub.org.uk/register/bishophatfield You can also follow our Alumni Association on social media. The Alumni Association publishes news and events on Facebook (to follow click here), Instagram (to follow click here), Twitter (to follow click here) and LinkedIn. Through this, ex-students may find out about their old school and see how much the buildings, curriculum and staff have changed over the years. We offer regular Career workshops to our current pupils and often invite sector-specific alumni and/or local industry partners to contribute. Whatever your field of expertise, your contribution is very valuable and we would love to hear from you if we haven’t already been in touch through our new Alumni hub. Offering guidance and advice to current students on the increasingly challenging decisions with regard to future career choices is both rewarding for you and much appreciated by the school. If you are willing to share your experiences with the new generation of Bishop’s students, then we would very much like to hear from you. Our Alumni Association has in the past organised Alumna Days when alumni have introduced our pupils to their professions and how to best access these career pathways. Below are some examples of such events.
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Until 2023, a group of ex-Bishop’s students who were at school between 1960 and 1990, the Bishop’s Hatfield Old Girls’ Association (BHOGA), met regularly. This friendly and lively networking group of ex-pupils and ex-staff arranged reunions such as an annual lunch at the school. The committee published an annual newsletter with news of old girls and staff, arranged reunions and provided a speaker for the school’s Prize and Certificate Evening each December. The last committee of members who were at the school between 1960 and 1990 were: Some of our first BHOGA Committee Members. If you are a former student who wishes to start another active Alumni group for the whole school such as the BHOGA or if you wish to reconnect with former school friends and set up a smaller private year group, why not register with our Future First Hub and see if you can get back in touch with your old friends?Bishop’s Hatfield Old Girls’ Association (BHOGA)
The Association was always self-supporting with a subscription cost of £20 for 5 years’ membership and any spare funds were used to purchase gifts for the school and to assist current pupils.
The committee generously donated the remainder of this fund in 2023 to plant a tree on site and provide some benches for students and staff to use, which bear some inspiring quotes upon which to ponder.
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Bishop’s Hatfield Girls’ School is working with the Girls’ Schools Association (GSA) to understand the ways in which attending a same-sex school equips pupils for success in both their personal and professional lives both during and also beyond their academic years in school. As alumni, we would therefore value your help to contribute to this research study through completing a survey. Alumni survey: https://impacted.typeform.com/GSAalumnaeGirls’ School Association Survey
A survey is being distributed nationally to a range of girls’ schools across both the state and independent sectors, with the aim of finding out more about the experience of all those involved.
