24 August 2009 Dear OE FORTY YEARS ON! A Celebration of Forty Years of Comprehensive Education at King Edward VII School

At the start of the new term King Edward VII School will have served the City of Sheffield as a comprehensive school since 1969. Ours was a very famous Grammar School before that date, one that could tell a fascinating, if not turbulent, story, but few would disagree that the most significant change in its long history came when it became a co-educational comprehensive school, along with all the other secondary schools in Sheffield.

We shall be marking the changes and the progress that has occurred during the last forty years with a special celebration on:
Friday 16th October 2009
at Upper School, Glossop Road, Broomhill

We would like to invite you, and any family or friends you would wish to bring along to an evening of celebration, which will also include the launch of a new short history of the comprehensive era at the school.

Entitled "Forty Years On!", it has been written by John Cornwell, a Governor of the School, who wrote "King Ted's", the Centenary History of the School in 2005.

We are intending to assemble a number of interesting speakers from the world of education and politics to speak briefly at the event. There will also be refreshments and an opportunity to meet old friends and colleagues and look around the school as it is today.

We very much look forward to you joining us. The event will start at 7.30 pm but the school will be open from 6.30 pm if you want to look around the building.

To give us some idea of the numbers attending, perhaps you might contact Jo Jackson at or telephone 0114 2296568.