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- Abbie Green - contact me
HELLO
- Adam Benson - contact me
I was at Ferndale between 1984 (or 85?) - 1992. I thoroughly enjoyed it and feel it really gave me a great start in life and the tools to hopefully excel later on. I have many fond memories from throughout my seven years there: In Lower 1 we were not allowed past the holly tree in the playground, but often required older pupils to do our shoelaces up which resulted in mischievous undoing of shoelaces and big lines being formed at the holly tree boundary. In Upper 1, we won promotion to the area of playground from the horse-chestnut tree down to the line between the two porta-cabins. Playing marbles was a compulsive part of break-time and played very competitively! In Form 2, we were encouraged to work hard with the incentive of Mrs Welland's weekly distribution of sweets for "stars" earned during the week. In Upper School, we had a fairly proficient football team and it was the highlight of the week for most of the boys. We were one of the few Ferndale teams to manage a victory over St Hughes (a tightly fought 1-0 victory courtesy of a Ben Mace toe-punt!), and I also vividly remember a 7-0 victory over Uffington (because I scored 5 goals!) and a 5-1 victory over St Francis (because our goalkeeper Chris Rendell was so cold he was physically frozen to the spot for their one and only shot!). I remember one day being sent out of Mrs Lamb's art class with Ben Mace and waiting in anticipation for a rollicking as we could hear the footsteps and smell the aftershave of Mr Collinge coming up the stairs, with nowhere to hide! I enjoyed my last year as Head Boy and House Captain of Cotswold and also won the trophy for most "plusses" for the second year in a row. My Ferndale education allowed me to win a scholarship to Abingdon (one of I think 9 scholarships out of our year of 21 - we were quite an academic year). I am still in contact with Matthew Hibberd, Ben Mace, Chris Rendell, Georgina Fox & Rebecca Toll from our year. I had a great 7 years at Abingdon playing rugby, cricket and rowing and was also Head of School. A lot of Ferndale boys went to Abingdon and I believe still do so. I then spent the next 3 years at Durham University and managed to fit just enough studying around rugby and cheap beer to come away with a 2:1 BA Economics. Following another harvest working on my father's farm, I took a gap year in 2002/03, having found an appetite for travelling after spending a summer in India whilst at university. I began by fulfilling a lifelong ambition to watch England "contest" the Ashes in Australia (a typically painful 4-1 defeat!) and spent the following few months travelling around Australia and New Zealand. I then flew to South America and did a crash course in Spanish before travelling through Chile, Ecuador, Peru & Bolivia. For a couple of those months I did a rainforest conservation project in a remote part of Ecuador which was really rewarding. Travelling was a fantastic experience and I hope to sneak off for another escapade or two between jobs in the future. Upon my return, I moved down to London with some mates from Abingdon and got a job at Merrill Lynch working in Prime Brokerage. Currently I still work in Equities (specifically stock loan & synthetic products), but have since moved to Bank of America in Canary Wharf. I have recently sat my last CIMA exam and hope to become a fully qualified management accountant in the next few months. Banking does tend to require long working hours, but it is definitely a challenging and stimulating environment in which to work. It would be great to hear from any of guys I knew whilst at Ferndale.
- Alex Hodgson - contact me
hello i am now at olc and i have alice stephens sitting next to me who is also an ex ferndalian
- Alice Matthews - contact me
Hi everyone especially people who were in my year!
- Alice Stephens - contact me
i am now at olc in abingdon and it is my 4th year. alexandra hodgson now lives on my road and i see her often.
- Andrew Callaghan - contact me
Andrew Callaghan was born in Cirencester in 1969. He attended Ferndale School from 1973-1978 and then went onto Warneford School in Highworth, Wiltshire. Andrew studied Photography & Design at the Swindon School of Art and Design in Wiltshire. He started work as an Assistant photographer for a local based company in Wiltshire where he learnt all aspects of the trade before staring his own business in 1994. He now runs a highly successful commercial studio that embraces all the latest digital technology. More recently Andrew has become involved in Arctic exploration, along with his brother in law and another local businessman who all share the same enthusiasm about the Arctic. Between them they have formed Absolute Arctic, a company that specialises in leading individuals and corporate clients to one of the last great regions on Earth. Andrew was invited back to Ferndale in 2006 to present the awards at our Annual Prizegiving.
- Andrew Toll - contact me
Graduated from the University of Leeds last year and have been working in Notting Hill as a residential sales negiotiator since.
- Angus Warwick - contact me
Hello ferndalians.
- Callum Prestedge - contact me
- Chessie Mclaven - contact me
i love Ferndale.
- Chloe Barton - contact me
hello everyone from my year!
- Chloe Boyd - contact me
Hello, I'm now at Headington. Hope to catch up with old friends soon!
- Chloe Read - contact me
- Chloe Smith - contact me
hi guys!! hope to see my old form at mr pipers play in the summer. bye!
- Claire Oastler - contact me
- Danielle Vass - contact me
- Duncan Bruce - contact me
I left school a few years ago and would like to stay in touch!
- Emma Black - contact me
Hi! x
- Emma Thompson - contact me
- Ewan Johnson - contact me
- Fiona Watters - contact me
Hello Hello Hello xXx
- Georgie/Georgina Allen-Stevens - contact me
Hey everyone! I have barely seen anyone from my year in Ferndale! I've only kept in contact with Jessie and Maddie Harris and Harriet Quint who all go to Burford which is my school. My favourite teacher at Ferndale wouild have to have been Mr.Piper, his teaching methods were amazing, he got us learning french verbs, numbers, accents in the first two years of upper school! He is so amazing and i will defiently miss him. I am now in year 10 at Burford. xxxxxx Contact me xxxxxxxxxxx Georgie
- Gioia Ward - contact me
Hi all! Just seen the play! It's great! Can't wait for next year. At Warneford School at the mo and enjoying it so far.......?! Hope you are all well. Hope to visit soon! Gioia
- Hannah Brander - contact me
Hi! I was at Ferndale from 1997-2006. I go to Headington, Oxford but I still see Olivia Moore, Molly Rhodes, Chloe Read, Gioia Ward, Josie Towle-Jones and Abi Saunders who goes to Headington with me. I'm in Yr 7 and have got exams coming up (wahoo not!).
- Hannah Cunningham - contact me
- Hannah Curl - contact me
I enjoyed it at Ferndale. Please email me if you knew me - I'd love to hear from you. We live near London now. Love Hannah
- Harriet Quint - contact me
- Helen Harfield - contact me
- Henrietta Cooper - contact me
Hey guys,how r u?Not sen u lot 4 ages hope ur having fun!!!!!hennyxxxxxoxox
- Jacqueline Prestedge - contact me
I went to Ferndale as a Pupil in year 1,2,3 and 4. I left Ferndale when I had to go back to Australia.I left Ferndale in 2006 in the middle of year 4.
- Jeremy Owen - contact me
Hey guys! I'm at college in Basingstoke now, still studying French, thanks to Mr Piper! Awesome memories of Ferndale, seems like aaaages ago though! Drop me a line, if you remember me...
- Joanna May - contact me
Missin' yoou guy's!!!!
- Josie Towle-Jones - contact me
Hello, i am at st helen and st katharine's in abingdon and am lovin it !!! lookin 4ward 2 comin and seeing da play and seeing all my old friends like hannah brander and james kippax and lots more. i was at ferndale since yr 2 and loved every bit of it !!!!!
- Kate Mitchell - contact me
Ooooh Ferndale. I miss the good old days!
- Katie Prior - contact me
- Katy Hancock - contact me
Iwas at ferndale for 7 years and i loved it, i'd love to stay in contact with my old friends!!
- Lena Kessler - contact me
hi im at olc at the moment and i am really enjoying myself the teachers are fab and all my new friends really made me feel welcome please contact me with thanks lena angela kessler
- Lindsay McGinlay (nee Roberts) - contact me
I have such found memories of my time at Ferndale, I started when Mrs Reeves was still Headmistress and we had to wear the beautiful felt hats! I was lucky enough to know Mr and Mrs Collinge aswell as Tania and Sharon well outside school and we shared some very memorable holidays in Cornwall-remember the barbican Mr Collinge if you ever read this??
- Lucy Matthews - contact me
Hello Everybody!!!!
- Lydia Uden - contact me
Hello
- Maddie Harris - contact me
hi there to everyone from Ferndale!!! i am curently at Burford and am enjoying it loads!!!
- Maddie Norbury - contact me
Loved Ferndale!! Now at St. Helens!! + with Josie + loving it!!!
- Maddy Tomkins - contact me
Started in 1992 :)
- Marc Johnson - contact me
- Megan (Meggie) Foster - contact me
- Michelle Clark (Nee Smith) - contact me
Left in 1992 when Mr Collinge was still headmaster!
- Molly Rhodes - contact me
Hello! I'm currently at Oxford High and loving it, but I really miss Ferndale! I hope all is well. Really looking forward to the year 6 play. Words and Music was amazing. I loved every minute! I hope to visit soon. Can't wait! See you then! Molly
- Monique McCaskill - contact me
- Nadir Shad - contact me
THis was a great school i was at ferndale since nusery and all you ferndalians should respect the teachers they rule!!!!Best wishes to all of you i now at kes so see ya later
- Natasha Blows - contact me
Hi everyone! St.Helens and St.Katharines is great!
- Natasha Parker-Coughlin - contact me
I was at Ferndale during the last years of Mrs Reeve's tenure and the beginning of the Collinge's, from memory 1978 - 1985. In my final year I was house captain of Vale and Head Girl. My fondest memories of school came from Ferndale; the manners that were drummed into us would seem draconian by today's standards - hand inspection at assembly, posture sashes if we'd had good posture for the week and constant encouragement.
- Neil Maton - contact me
I was at Ferndale from 1981 - 1985, when Mr & Mrs Collinge were there. Having got used to the rather tedious label of going to 'green pea' (the colour was was miles better than other local schools in the vicinity) it was an excellent school. It really did teach you manners, respect, self discipline, ambition, competition and other great attributes that are significantly missing from many young people today.
- Nereide Fox - contact me
I left Ferndale in 1991 and joined Tudor Hall in Banbury. I then went to Edinburgh University in 1998 and studied Chinese. In 2002 I joined Deloitte in London and qualified as a chartered accountant. I am currently in China working for a media business and I'm due to return to the UK shortly to find new opportunities. Some snapshot memories of Ferndale for your amusement! There were always two people in the top year in charge of the first aid kit during break time. If you fell over or bruised yourself they would rush out like maniacs and cart you back for dressings and bandages. The performance was usually accompanied by siren sound effects. I also remember Mr John Balley (hope I've spelt that right!). He would tell us he'd metaphorically hang us up by our toes if we spelt important words like "desperate" incorrectly. Classes with him were always interesting. Last one! At the time, one of my very old friends and I didn't get on as well as we do now. I was in art class with Mrs Lamb and queuing up behind that friend for creative advice when I took it upon myself to cut a hole in my friend's jumper. I thought I was going to be expelled as soon as I did it. I was summoned to Mr Collinge's office. I needed to think quickly how I was going to explain a believable scenario for accidental hole cutting. I think I said that I tripped and the scissors snagged on the jumper. Mr Collinge remained very puzzled about the perfect roundness of the hole in poor Georgie's jumper! Great times! Without going to Ferndale, I would have found it very difficult to secure a place at Tudor Hall and be where I am now. Keep up the great work!
- Oliver Curl - contact me
I enjoyed it at Ferndale School it was great.From Oliver
- Olivia Barnard - contact me
hey guys aint seen u lot in ages hwz schl goin 4 u nw? wb livi xxx
- Olivia Moore - contact me
heya old ferndalians and the teachers
- Ottilie Uden - contact me
- Penny Kowalczyk - contact me
- Phoebe Bray - contact me
Hey everyone. I am at St.Helens and loving it!
- Rachel Bell
- Rachel Bond - contact me
Hi to everyone in my form who remembers me.
- Richard Oastler - contact me
- Richard Oastler - contact me
- Robert O'Kelly - contact me
- Rosalind Cunningham - contact me
- Rosie Satherley - contact me
- Rosie Wilson - contact me
hi
- Rupert Waterson - contact me
Hi,i think the new website is very good.
- Ryan Scott - contact me
This is my school email so dont email me at weekends.
- Sarah Adams - contact me
- Sarah Long - contact me
- Sarah May - contact me
Missin' you guy's
- Scarlett Walton - contact me
hi everyone, i hope u are all well? talk soon x
- Sophie Moore - contact me
I now live in shropshire hello to everyone in my year and i will see you soon !
- Symron Bains - contact me
Hi guys
- Tania Collinge - contact me
I was at Ferndale from about 1978 - when mum & dad took the school over, until I left to go to St Helens in Abingdon. Lovely to read the stories about being sent to see 'Mr Collinge' - I forgot what he was like as a headmaster!!
- Tom Black - contact me
hope we meet soon at one of the plays etc
- Vishal Patel - contact me
- Will Hughes - contact me
hello i was at Ferndale in 2003-2005. im now at Magdalen
