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04/07/2023

IT’S OFFICIAL…..

….‘SAVE THE DATE’!!!!

Yes, it’s now booked! The party is on!

GET IT IN YOUR DIARIES!!

**SATURDAY 11TH MAY 2024**

More to follow, in due course! 🎉🎈🥂🙌🏻 ###

15/06/2023

Dear all, finally an up date regarding the exit of Chelsea College/Brighton Uni from Eastbourne next year, and the possibility of a party!

Although in relatively early stages, I’m on a working party trying to put on a celebration of some kind, hopefully next May 2024.

As there is nothing concrete yet, I can’t say more, but we are trying to move fast to pin down a date etc. If we are successful, I will let you know asap, as getting numbers will be crucial.

Sorry for the long delay. It’s been interesting…

18/12/2022

Dear all, regarding the closure of the Eastbourne site of Chelsea College (Brighton Uni) I have news of a sort.

I’m in contact with an ex-teaching colleague who has worked at Brighton Uni in Eastbourne for some time now & who, like me & loads of our year group (& other year groups!) - really wants to celebrate the legacy of our time there! In other words, we are working on the possibility of a huge PARTY!

Fingers crossed we can make it happen 🤞🏻 There’s no set date yet, but as it’s due to close at the end of the 2023-24 year, we’re thinking maybe April/May/June 2024 🤷🏼‍♀️ as a starting point. Make a note if you’re interested!

Just putting it out there. Very early stages, but hoping we can manage something! 🎉🥂🥳

18/12/2022

To ex-Chelsea College friends etc who took the Cert Ed course, read on…

Calling out to all ex Students of Chelsea College of Physical Education.

𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗿 𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆. 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲@𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸.𝗰𝗼𝗺

A generation of early pioneers in encouraging girls to take part in sport are campaigning for a long belated recognition of their efforts – more than fifty years on.

In the late twentieth century, when women’s sport was much less fashionable than now, the training of women to be PE teachers took place at a small number of specialist Colleges of Physical Education, including Chelsea College at Eastbourne.

In those days, before teaching became an all-graduate profession, a three-year course typically led to a Certificate of Education.

In recent times there has been a growing movement across the higher education sector, for ex-students with these ‘teachers’ certificates’ to be awarded Honorary Degrees in recognition that a Cert. Ed. then, is now worthy of degree status. The Universities of London, Loughborough, Bedford, Sheffield, Worcester and several more have already awarded Hon. degrees to their former students.

The decision to upgrade the Certificate of Education remains in the hands of the newer universities into which the colleges were progressively absorbed.

Chelsea College became part of the former Brighton Polytechnic, now the University of Brighton, but the University has so far resisted calls to award these degrees.

Former Chelsea student *[Insert here your name (+ age, if you dare) and area where you live now] said: “Chelsea at Eastbourne was one of a small handful of specialist colleges that were at the very top of the tree in terms of the teaching of girls’ PE in secondary schools.

“Women’s sport had none of the status it has today, so Chelsea ‘graduates’ can truly be said to have been pioneers in encouraging girls to get involved.”

We need your support to move forward in our quest to be recognised like many other ex-students who were awarded a Cert. Ed but now have an Honorary Degree.

Please contact us at: [email protected] to add your support

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You don’t have to add your name to this if you don’t want to. Please do include the sentence, but “Chelsea at Eastbourne was…”

This is the year of mini-meets! We can’t travel far or meet easily without running the risk of getting Covid-19 and/or b...
24/07/2021

This is the year of mini-meets! We can’t travel far or meet easily without running the risk of getting Covid-19 and/or breaking the law, so instead we’re having mini-meets! Smaller, localised reunions just for the hell of it!

And today, we had a mini-meet in Eastbourne! 8 of us met at the Langham Hotel, on the seafront for a Prosecco cream tea 😋 But, of course, what we really met for was to TALK!! And talk. And talk some more

It was so lovely to chill and share a bit of what’s going on in our lives: family, retirement, hobbies, work! All sorts 😄

What unites us all is our time training to be PE teachers. Still got a lot of stories from 40+ years ago!! 😳
But plenty that we can’t remember…! Damn it 😂

Roll on the next one!! 😃

Sadly, Lesley couldn’t join us. Yesterday, she was pinged. 😣

So, this Saturday was supposed to be our ‘Chelsea College Reunion: We Are 60!’ day. Sadly cancelled due to current circu...
21/05/2020

So, this Saturday was supposed to be our ‘Chelsea College Reunion: We Are 60!’ day. Sadly cancelled due to current circumstances. But, here’s an idea....

On Saturday, please can everyone post (on here) a selfie? Show us where you are - home, garden, park, downs etc... with a bit of info about your day.

It will be a small way we can still be together, despite the miles that separate us 💖


18/03/2020

In view of the current situation, sadly the planned ‘60s Reunion’ this May 23rd, has been cancelled.

The plan is to rearrange next year.

We are all going through an unprecedented time of restrictions & worry, due to a virus which is still spiralling & a final outcome which is some distance away.

*Look after yourselves
*Look after each other
*Stay safe

See you next year 😊 Steph xx

13/03/2020

The ‘We Are 60!’🎉 Reunion...

Dear all, I have already put this message on our Chelsea College WhatsApp group. As some of you are only in this Facebook group, this is for you & anyone else from our year group, who you may know & can pass this on to.
*If there are such people who want to join this Facebook group, please let me know
**If any of you in this group are NOT in the WhatsApp group & would like to be, let me know about that too!

So, below is a list of those I know:

- can come on Sat 23/5 ✔️
- those who can’t X
- those who don’t know ?

Please can you -
1. Confirm the info that I have.
2. Let me know further names to add to my list.

Thank you! The programme is just about done & will be on here very soon 😃 ###

*NUMBERS*:
- Verity Poole (Locke)✔️
- Claire Brown (Mack) X
- Moses, ✔️
- Carolyn Rayner ✔️
- Les Pyle (Philcox)✔️
- Noelle ✔️
- Lofty, ✔️
- Colette, ✔️
- Jane McNaught-Davis (Hatcher) X
- Sarah Sydney (Exon) ✔️
- Caroline Esdaile (Weekes) X
- Chriz Poultney ✔️
- Jo Saville (Hector) X
- Carol Fearria (Burgess) ✔️
- Julie Simpson ✔️
- Karen Harman (Halliwell) ✔️
- Maureen Edwards (Smith) ✔️
- Jenny Wood, ✔️
- Emma Webber (Bradshaw-Smith) ✔️
- Dodie X
- Jen Owsley/Entwistle X
- Pat Gradwell (Doyle)?

(Some names are self-explanatory 😉)

Dear all,How lovely to be in touch again! 😀 As most of you will be aware, we are once again planning another get togethe...
15/12/2019

Dear all,

How lovely to be in touch again! 😀 As most of you will be aware, we are once again planning another get together! 🥳 This time in celebration of our 60th birthdays 🎂🎈🎉🤩 Some of us have reached that milestone already and some have yet to get there. But, we’re all loitering around that area, so let’s do it again!

The date will be Saturday May 23rd, again the first weekend of the half term break. This will allow those who are still working, to have more time in Eastbourne or to make this commitment (hopefully!) with more time available to them.

The format has yet to be finally confirmed, but it is to be less formal, with the following idea in mind:

- Meet mid-morning for coffee + light refreshments (place tbc)
- Weather permitting: time on the beach
- Possible tour of college, if requested
- Meet for drinks in the evening (yet tba, but potentially Bishopsbourne again!)

So, I hope to see as many of you as possible - and more. And that’s where I need you all to do some searching...
We all live in different parts of the UK and the world! With that in mind, I am asking you all to do your best to track down more of our ex-classmates in these interim months!

Use whatever means you can think of: social media in all it’s different formats, plus the old-fashioned stuff, like newspaper articles and radio requests! Whatever might make a difference and I’ll ask the Alumni dept of Brighton Uni to help however they can- an ad in their news letter & whatever else they can suggest. Let’s see how many ex-college friends/colleagues from our year group, we can get in contact with!

So, no pressure! 😄😉
However many of you can attend, it will be a fun day/weekend.

I look forward to seeing lots of you in May! xx

PS -a few pics, past & present!

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43-49 Royal Parade
Eastbourne
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