MORE than 200 former pupils and staff relived old times at a St Edmund’s School 150th anniversary reunion on Saturday.

For headteacher Jacqui Goodall it was a family celebration. Enjoying the day with her was her 91-year-old mother Joan Wills, who was head girl at the school in 1934.

They cut one of two anniversary cakes, while the other was cut by the school’s youngest pupil, Gaby Le Moigne, and the current head girl Ellie McKinley.

Entertainment was provided by another ex-pupil, singer Rosemary Squires, and by the school’s Year 10 Dance Group and Chamber Choir.

The reunion was organised by a group of ‘old girls’ who attended the school in the 1960s when it moved from School Lane, by St Edmund’s Church, to the current site at Laverstock.

A special guest was Canon John Rumens, who was very much involved with St Edmund’s at that time and talked about his memories. The Rev David Linaker of St Thomas’s Church said a prayer for the school’s future.

After a tea prepared by the school’s catering manageress Christine Safe, who is also an ex-pupil, it was time to look at photographs and memorabilia and renew old friendships.