Harold Barclay Allen – Alumn from the 1900s

When Nicola “Punch” Maughan, an English entrepreneur and board member, visited Sydney’s Waverley Cemetery from Wales this year, the manager at the ocean-side graveyard was…

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At the heart of The Friends’ School is a commitment to building a strong and vibrant global community and so we are excited to announce…

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Mary-Lou Stephens (1978) didn’t know what she wanted to do when she completed Year 12 at Friends’. Her parents’ advice to “get some life experience”…

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On Wednesday 26 June 2024 all students from Kindergarten to Year 12 supported the School’s annual giving program, Friends Together.  This year the Friends’ community…

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In 1908, less than a year after he’d sailed from Liverpool to become principal of The Friends’ School, Godfrey John Williams died unexpectedly of nephritis.…

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On Friday 21 June, The Friends’ School participated in SPEAK UP! Stay ChatTY’s Shorts Day. By wearing shorts to school The Friends’ School raised money…

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On Thursday 20 to Saturday 22 June, our Senior School students performed Disney’s Aladdin JR. to sold out audiences over five performances at The Playhouse…

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Year 12 students Isabel Ascui, Anika Jolley and Charlotte Cox have handwritten 10 letters to alumni around Australia as part of their International Baccalaureate (IB)…

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Before he retired in 2001, Robert Paton (Class of 1953) worked almost 30 years as a research librarian at Time Inc. in New York’s Manhattan.…

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On Saturday 25 May we held reunions for the Class of 1984 (40 year out) and Class of 1994 (30 year out). The occasion kicked…

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On Saturday 25 May we welcomed back alumni from the Class of 2004 (20 year out) and Class of 2014 (10 year out) to their…

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On Saturday 25 May we held reunions for the Class of 1984 (40 year out) and Class of 1994 (30 year out). The occasion kicked…

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On Saturday 25 May we welcomed back alumni from the Class of 2004 (20 year out) and Class of 2014 (10 year out) to their…

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The difference a year makes Caryn Davies (1999), who was last year awarded the Nobel prize of rowing, the 2023 Thomas Keller Medal, started rowing…

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We were delighted to host the Class of 1974 for a school tour on Friday May 3rd, followed by a commemorative dinner the next day,…

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On Saturday 4 May we hosted The Friends’ School Fair. It was a wonderful day with many creative student lead craft stalls and activities. We…

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A Lasting Impact In 1952, Beverley Hooper (1957) won The Friends’ School’s first ever Ida Mather scholarship, valued at £20 a year for three years.…

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Trevor Stokes was five when he joined Friends’ in 1938, attending the Friends’ Preparatory School in Sandy Bay. (“Little Friends” as it was known, was…

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