As one of the many thousands of alumni who have benefited from a Homewood education over the last 71 years, you are a valued part of our continuing community and a role model to the many students who are following in your footsteps. The friendships you made here are also likely to endure a lifetime.
So whether you can spare time to come and speak to current students, offer work experience to sixth formers, want to arrange a class reunion or simply share your news, we would love to hear from you.
Join our alumni community!
Homewood Alumni Network & Portal: With the help of educational charity Future First, we’ve launched an online space for former Homewood students – our alumni portal. Please register at the portal here so that we can keep in contact with you; let you know about future events and tell you how you can help current students.
A Springboard to Success: Our latest video celebrates some of our fantastic alumni who are helping to shape the future in their chosen careers in a wide variety of professions, both here in the UK and abroad. Click here to view it on our new YouTube Channel.
Do you have a great story to tell about your personal journey since leaving Homewood? We would love to hear about it so please get in touch by emailing: alumni@homewood.kent.sch.uk
Archive70 Project: To coincide with our official 70th birthday in 2019, we started a major project to preserve and catalogue the school’s archives. Volunteer students from Year 12 have been working with the school’s Development Manager and the Secretary of the Tenterden Local History Society to secure the archives for future reference and display. We are currently also looking for material from the 1980s onwards to fill some gaps in our records. Please get in contact via alumni@homewood.kent.sch.uk if you have any photos or memorabilia that you would be able to lend or donate, or if you would be willing to participate in recording an oral history about your time at the school.
Latest Alumni News
Alumni meetings and reunions: Sadly, due to COVID, we were unable to hold our 2020 Summer Alumni Event. We are still considering the options to hold an event this Summer but can’t confirm anything just yet (April 2021). The plans for the 1970-73 Leavers Reunion are also still on hold but will be reassessed in the coming months in the hope that the event can be rescheduled for 2022. The organisers are still keen to track down more fellow classmates so if you are interested in a future reunion, and reconnecting with your friends from that time, please contact: d.brind@ntlworld.com
Ron Saxby 1937-2019: A fascinating personal account of this talented former student’s England football selection and International debut, alongside legend Sir Bobby Charlton, has come to light in our archives.
Following the sad news of the death of Arsenal and England schoolboy footballer Ronald (Ron) Saxby, aged 82 at the end of 2019, volunteers cataloguing Homewood’s archives checked the school’s magazines from 1953 – the year in which Ron received his England and Arsenal call-ups. To their amazement they found a full and detailed account of his first appearances for his country with Sir Bobby and fellow ‘Busby Babe’ Wilf McGuiness. You can read the full account as published in the July 1953 Homewood School Magazine here
Did you go to school with Ron? If so please contact alumni@homewood.kent.sch.uk as we would love to capture your memories for our oral history archive.
Alumni Newsletter: Our Alumni Newsletter goes out once a term to our Network database and includes both school and alumni news, including event dates and requests for alumni to get in touch. In the latest edition (No7 – April 2020) there’s news of a major donation to our Graphics Department from Mr Doodle – former Homewood student Sam Cox – details of a community art project in Tenterden if you are planning to visit the town in July, and a call for alumni working in sport and fitness to share their insights for a THIS GIRL CAN week at Homewood in September. We also continue to look for news of your career journeys to help inspire our current students so please do get in touch. This includes anyone who took part in our Take Up the Challenge programme over the last 14 years who would be happy to share their memories. If you have a story for a future newsletter please also contact us on: alumni@homewood.kent.sch.uk. If you don’t currently receive the newsletter but would like to, you can sign up through our Alumni Network