From its origins in the early 1900’s the Schools went through several name changes over the years and then merged in 1983 to become The Folkestone School for Girls. At that time, the Technical School had no current Old Girls’ Association (although there had been one until the 1950’s) and all former pupils and staff were invited to join with the Grammar School Old Girls’ Association to help encourage the present pupils with the merger and become “one”. In the past we have been pupils of
- The Grange (at Shorncliffe Road)
- Folkestone County Technical School for Girls
- Folkestone Technical High School for Girls
- Folkestone County Grammar School for Girls
- Folkestone Grammar School for Girls
And now we have members from the merged School
- The Folkestone School for Girls.
We issue an annual Newsletter and usually have at least one social occasion each year – for many years we had a formal dinner with speakers but nowadays we have an informal and relaxed lunch in the spring, incorporating the AGM (usually very short). In the autumn we try to arrange a Dinner which can include non-members, friends and relatives. Again, this is a relaxed occasion with no formalities – just a good get-together. Sometimes we hold fundraising events like a Quiz Evening but we have experienced problems attracting good support by getting our messages out as we can afford to do only one posting a year. Only about a third of our members have given us email addresses and this helps our expenses considerably. We need more of these! We can also be contacted via Facebook. We support the School with donations to the School Prize Fund and to the Ewart Memorial Fund, which assists current pupils going on to further education.