The Shrubbery County Secondary  Girls' School    Cliddesden Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK

              Join Our  1962   5th  Year  Reunion

                      Present aerial view showing the original buildings of the Shrubbery School on the site of the Queen Mary's College, Cliddesden Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK,  soon to be redeveloped.

Memories of the School Day at the Shrubbery Secondary Modern School for Girls 5th Year 1962

The Shrubbery Secondary Modern School for Girls opened in 1954 and occupied the extensive grounds of 32 acres of parkland.   The 1000 girls at the Shrubbery were divided into six houses named after Abbeys in Hampshire and all members wore the relevant button in the colour of their House.  They were as follows:

School Dinners

School Dinners were taken in our Houses, with two from years four and five, two from year three, two from year two, and two from year one.  Rooms 12, 13 and 14 were used, plus two in the Annexe.  One teacher sat on each table for one week.

Prefect Duties

Every Tuesday the Prefects took morning assembly and read the lesson.  Two prefects were responsible to take their classes into assembly in the School Hall.

It's wonderful to catch up with all the girls that used to be  in the 5th Year in 1962 who attended the Shrubbery Secondary School for Girls in Basingstoke, and it is amazing how we still meet as firm friends, as if the intervening  years have melted away, and we are again life long friends with many shared experiences, with friendships made in those classrooms, which have stayed with us until the present day.

                        Members of the Class of '62 attending one of the regular lunches during 2009

To any, who would have shared with us, the experience of being a pupil at the Shrubbery Secondary Modern School for Girls, Cliddesden Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK, in their 5th Year in 1962, we offer a warm welcome to join us at one of our regular lunches, for details please contact Lesley. Or, if you have any photographs or memories from the 5th Year in 1962 at the Shrubbery Secondary School for  Girls, Basingstoke, do get in touch at the following email address.  We would love to hear from you.

Please contact:  Lesley Astley (nee Barnes)  on email:  lesley.astley@tiscali.co.uk