Welcome to Old Haberdashers Day Sunday 8 June 2025
Schedule
Timings may vary slightly on the day
10.00 AM - 11.00 AM: FORMER STAFF BREAKFAST
Habs Girls Dining Hall
10.30 AM: REGISTRATION OPENS
Habs Girls - Beside GS Main Entrance
Habs Boys - Outside Bourne Hall
Both registration desks will move to the Croquet lawn after 11 am.
11.00 AM - 11.30 AM: WELCOME FROM THE HEADS
Habs Girls - Prevett Hall Habs Boys - Bourne Hall
Welcome from Dr Hazel Bagworth-Mann
Music by Saxes Aloud and St Catherine Singers (see page 5)
Singing of ‘Carmen’
Welcome from Mr Robert Sykes
Singing of ‘Jerusalem’
11.30 AM - 12.30 PM: WELCOME DRINKS
Croquet Lawn
12.00 PM: CRICKET MATCH HABS BOYS 1 XI VS OLD HABERDASHERS ST Top Field
12.30 PM - 2.30 PM: FOOD VENDORS
Croquet Lawn
Christie’s Catering - Wood Fired Pizza
Tripoli Express - Middle Eastern Street Food
Noviellos Ices - FREE Ice Cream
12.30 PM - 1.30 PM: MILESTONE REUNION GATHERINGS
Side of Croquet Lawn
5, 10 and 25 Year Reunions (Boys School and Girls School Classes of 2020, 2015, 2000)
Girls School Classes of 1990, 1995, 2017, 2024
Boys School Classes of 1982, 2003, 2024 2
Schedule Cont.
Timings may vary slightly on the day
12.30 PM - 2.30 PM: 50-YEAR REUNION LUNCHES
Habs Girls - Girls School Dining Hall
Habs Boys - Old Refectory, Aldenham House
2.00 PM - 2.30 PM: ‘FUTURE OF HABS’ AND Q&A with Gus Lock, Executive Principal
Habs Girls School Lecture Theatre
12.30 PM - 3.00 PM: STUDENT-LED SCHOOL TOURS
Habs Girls and Habs Boys
General Information
TOURS
Will run every 30 minutes between 12:30 and 3 pm. Sign up at the tour desk at the top of the Croquet Lawn. These will be led by current students. You are also welcome to wander the campus on your own.
ARCHIVE DISPLAYS
Habs Girls School, Vestibule - Celebrating 150 Years of Habs Girls School
Habs Boys School, Bourne Foyer - Demonstration of the Digital Archives
TOILETS
Habs Girls School - Outside Prevett Hall, Vestibule, off GS Dining Hall
Habs Boys School - Aldenham House Entrance, Bourne Hall (Ground Floor)
Username: oh2025
Password: oh2025
PHOTOGRAPHY
Check out the Magic Mirror Photo Booth on the Croquet Lawn and snap some pictures with your friends to mark the occasion! Professional photographers will also be taking pictures* throughout the day, and a link to the photo albums will be shared with participants after the event.
*These photos may be used in future marketing communications for the event, please let us know if you would not like your photo to be taken.
In Case of Emergency
EMERGENCY EVACUATION
In case of emergency, please vacate the building and gather in front of the Girls’ School entrance or the Quad outside Bourne Hall.
FIRE EVACUATION
Girls’ School - Please gather in front of the Girls’ School entrance
Boys’ School - Please gather on the Boys’ School astroturfs
FIRST AID
Boys School Aldenham House and Girls School Main Building
Boys School: 020 8266 1790 / 07801 385426 (mobile)
Girls School: 020 8266 2306
As part of our 150 anniversary celebrations a piece of music has been commissioned from Canadian composer Sarah Quartel, who is described as ‘ one of Canada’s most internationally celebrated and widely performed living choral composers ’ . th
The piece adapts a text by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the 19 century American scholar and poet, originally titled ‘We thank thee’. The use of the refrain, ‘ we thank you ’ echoes the final words of the School Carmen (Mater, tibi gratias), in which we thank the school (the mother) for supporting, guiding and providing for us. The text, evocative of nature and spring, gives thanks for everything around us. This key message of gratitude is central to our 150 celebrations. th th
We Thank You
For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see, We thank you!
For blue of stream and blue of sky; For pleasant shade of branches high; For fragrant air and cooling breeze;
For beauty of the blooming trees,
We thank you!
Words: Ralph Waldo Emerson (edited)
Music: Sarah Quartel
The Habs Elstree Foundation Calendar of Events
Old Haberdashers Gala Dinner Thursday 16 October
The First Five Years: Classes of 2021-2025 Drinks Reunion Tuesday 6 January 2026 The Fable, London EC1A 2FD Bourne Hall, Haberdashers Elstree Schools Haberdashers Hall
Class of 2025 Celebration and A Level Collection Evening
We're always looking for Old Haberdashers to host networking events for fellow alumni. Last year, we held successful ‘Women in Business’ and ‘Property Professionals’ gatherings. If you ' re interested in hosting an event at your workplace, we’d love to hear from you—please get in touch using the contact details below.
