Saturday 01 July 2023
Leavers of 2001
On 1st July 2023, a handful of 2001 leavers met up for a first OH reunion. All marvelled at how, after 22 years, HCS is a juxtaposition of the ambitiously new and the amusingly unaltered: the rectangular lawn behind Number 1, which pupils were forbidden from treading upon, is now a sports pitch (so, it wasn’t cursed); while some isolated graffito, bearing familiar names, is still in place in School House (which really says more about our cohort than anything else). Mind you, a visitor from any cohort from the last eight hundred years would feel the same while touring the school today; HCS is a mixture of the new, the old, and the very, very old.It was touching that Mr Jackson, Mr Priday and Mrs De Souza made themselves available to meet us, and staggering that they could remember who we were, given that scores of pupils have passed under their watch since we left in the summer of 2001. Thank you to them, and to the OH Club for organising the day.Nico Vaughan