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1722 - 2022
CHURCHER’S 300TH ANNIVERSARY
Plans are already underway to celebrate 300 years since the school’s benefactor, Richard Churcher, signed his will, on 7th February 1722, which included the provision for an education for ten or twelve local boys from Petersfield, in the arts of writing, arithmetic, and navigation. The tercentenary celebrations will have two main aims. First and foremost, we will celebrate the initiation of Churcher’s College, from where we have come from to where we are today. Secondly, we want to engage the whole Churcher’s community with the school, including current pupils, staff and parents, OCs and their families, other friends and the local community.
If you would like to hear more about our current plans, please call the Development Office on 01730 236 833. In order to develop a real understanding of what makes Churcher’s “Churcher’s” so to speak, we want to hear as many stories as possible from our Old Churcherians and former staff and share them amongst the community (the ones that can be repeated anyway…). Whether there was a standout event, an anecdote to bring about a smile or just a flavour of what it was like to be a pupil at Churcher’s, please get in touch with us if you have a story you want to tell and help us create our chronicle.
