The biggest coffee morning in the world

A message from the Headmaster

Dear Parents/Guardians/Old Maidstonians,

Once again the School will be supporting the MacMillan Cancer Relief Biggest Coffee Morning in the World day on Friday, 29th September 2017.

Last year with the support of the school community and your support we raised over £600 for this very worthwhile charity. I would like to invite you to come in and support our coffee morning again. It will be held in the Big Hall between 10.30 and 11.30 am. Independent Catering, our School Meals Contractor has donated home cooked cakes and biscuits for the event. It will be £1 for a hot/cold drink and a cake/biscuit.

If you have some free time on the 29th why not drop in to the school and support MacMillan Cancer Relief.

Yours sincerely,
Mark Tomkins

Here’s the poster with all the information for this year’s quiz night, as a Word document:
MGS Quiz poster 2017 in Word

and as a PDF file
MGS Quiz poster 2017 as a PDF

Following the success of the first London event in January, the Society would like to invite all Old Maidstonians to an early evening informal gathering being held in the River Room at King’s College London.

On the second floor of the King’s main Campus on the Strand, and with splendid views over the Thames, the River Room is a fantastic venue for our second London event and we are grateful to Ralph Luck OBE for securing this location for us.

A private room with pay bar has been booked and there will be a buffet. The Society would appreciate a nominal £10 contribution, which can be paid in advance to the OMS account (details below), or on the night.

In order that we can have an idea of the numbers wishing to attend, and the amount for the buffet, we would be grateful if you would please let us know at oms@oldmaidstonians.org.uk

Our account:
Natwest Bank, Maidstone Branch, 3 High Street, Maidstone, ME14 1XU
Account: OMS
Account no: 00051802
Sort Code: 60-60-08
IBAN: GB31 NWBK 606008 00051802
BIC (Swift) NWBKGB2L

Warmest regards
The Committee
Old Maidstonian Society
Tel: 01622 730514
Mob: 07770 738041

The Society would like to invite all Old Maidstonians to an early evening informal gathering being held at The George Inn in Southwark, from 18:30 on. The evening will be hosted by Neil Turrell.

Dear Members,

The historic 17th century George Inn is a galleried coaching inn at 77 Borough High Street, SE1 1NH, close to The Shard and London Bridge: The George Inn

A private room with pay bar has been booked and there will be a finger buffet. The Society will meet part of the costs of the evening, but we would appreciate a nominal £10 contribution, which can be paid on the night.

In order that we can have an idea of the numbers wishing to attend, and therefore the amount for the buffet, we would be very grateful if you would please let us know at oms@oldmaidstonians.org.uk We have to advise the George Inn 10 days in advance, so please respond as soon as possible.

Warmest regards
The Committee

From: Acaster,Sharon <Sharon.Acaster@mgs-kent.org.uk>

With Year 13 university applications well underway, I’m now starting to think ahead to our careers evening in the spring.
We have a provisional date for our careers evening next year of Wednesday 15th March.

As it’s the first one we’ve done in this format (i.e. evening rather than lunchtime talks from employers) we will probably keep it fairly small and manageable to see how it goes; probably no more than 10-12 speakers. The format is likely to involve having the careers talks running simultaneously in various classrooms around the school, and we envisage getting the students/parents to sign up in advance to the talks they wish to attend so we get an idea of how many to expect for each talk. If some are more popular, or if people want to attend more than one talk, we could possible run some of them twice. I am imagining a 20-25 minute talk with time for questions etc. at the end.

Ideally we would be looking for speakers who are currently working in their industry and who would be able to provide information that is up-to-date and relevant to students interested in starting a career in the industry. I have already been in contact with a couple of recent former students, who are happy to be involved and I see no reason why we couldn’t have more than one speaker from the same industry, as that would give a more rounded view of the career, particularly if we have someone who is fairly new to the career and someone with more experience.

I’ve been talking with the Year 11s to get some ideas of the career areas that seem to be popular, so if we could cover some of these at the careers evening, that would be great.
They are as follows:

Accountancy/Finance/Business & Economics
Engineering (Civil/Mechanical/Aeronautical)
Journalism
Medical (Doctor/Physiotherapy)
Computing (Software Engineering/Games design/programming)
Science/Research
Sports
Design/Creative/Media/Music
Law
Politics
Architecture/Surveying
Police/Armed Forces Officer (RAF/Navy/Army)

If it is successful and we get a reasonable number of attendees we could potentially look at running it on an annual or biennial basis, with different careers/speakers each time.
Look forward to hearing from you.

The date of next year’s Annual Supper has been set for Friday 31st March. Further details will be forwarded towards the end of the year.

Some photos, courtesy of Peter Weaver:

Lindsay Evans, former chair of Governors, was made an Honorary Vice- President of the Society by the President, Richard Ratcliffe.

	The President and Lindsay Evans
	Roger Crittenden, the President’s Guest speaker, who proposes the toast to the School
	The Headmaster, Mark Tomkins, replies
	The School Captain replies
	The President makes the Alec Stewart award
	The President makes the Clifford Award for History
	The Clifford Award
	Handover of the Presidency
	The new President, Neil Turrell (President 2016-17)