7 Sep 2001 - How this site began
www.keswickhall.ik.org.
It was the Easter holidays. I was at home, working once again my school's new Development and Improvement Plan when my mind wandered to those halcyon days, between 1969 and 1972, when I was a student teacher at Keswick Hall. Little did I expect, one day, to become a primary headteacher. What became of the other students and lecturers? Where are they now ?
I decided to trawl the Internet for information about college and came across a couple of 'where are they now?' sites where I discovered ex-students asking the same question. There was no known Keswick Hall College of Education website through which ex students and staff could contact each other and at the time I was unaware of the Old Students, Club. So, with the tacit agreement of a few ex-students, an embryo web site was created.
The aim of this web site is to provide a focus for ex-students and staff - to give them an opportunity to reminisce, to catch up with news, careers and renew friendships and acquaintances. For those of us still in the profession, during these days of enormous educational change, this site, and the contacts it generates, might even give support and encouragement! We certainly need it!
It is hoped that simple autobiographies and articles about the college will provide interest and renew contacts. An article gleaned from the writings of Bill Etherington, the last college principal (who very much supports the idea of this web site), was on the site within days of its formation. I visited him during the Summer Holidays (and the old college of course) and further contacts developed.
At the time of writing links are being forged between the Old Students' Club.
We need to hear from all those interested in Keswick Hall, as it was, as a teacher training college and college of education.
Memories, contact details, ideas for the web site, articles, photographs etc., are all required. Ex- students and staff are encouraged to visit the site and either send information through the Feedback page or via the Guestbook.
GR.
It was the Easter holidays. I was at home, working once again my school's new Development and Improvement Plan when my mind wandered to those halcyon days, between 1969 and 1972, when I was a student teacher at Keswick Hall. Little did I expect, one day, to become a primary headteacher. What became of the other students and lecturers? Where are they now ?
I decided to trawl the Internet for information about college and came across a couple of 'where are they now?' sites where I discovered ex-students asking the same question. There was no known Keswick Hall College of Education website through which ex students and staff could contact each other and at the time I was unaware of the Old Students, Club. So, with the tacit agreement of a few ex-students, an embryo web site was created.
The aim of this web site is to provide a focus for ex-students and staff - to give them an opportunity to reminisce, to catch up with news, careers and renew friendships and acquaintances. For those of us still in the profession, during these days of enormous educational change, this site, and the contacts it generates, might even give support and encouragement! We certainly need it!
It is hoped that simple autobiographies and articles about the college will provide interest and renew contacts. An article gleaned from the writings of Bill Etherington, the last college principal (who very much supports the idea of this web site), was on the site within days of its formation. I visited him during the Summer Holidays (and the old college of course) and further contacts developed.
At the time of writing links are being forged between the Old Students' Club.
We need to hear from all those interested in Keswick Hall, as it was, as a teacher training college and college of education.
Memories, contact details, ideas for the web site, articles, photographs etc., are all required. Ex- students and staff are encouraged to visit the site and either send information through the Feedback page or via the Guestbook.
GR.