We were absolutely delighted to welcome back into school some incredibly special guests.
Exactly 30 years ago, in the Spring of 1995, Mylnhurst suddenly found itself at real risk of closure when the founding nuns who had established the school in 1933 indicated they intended to withdraw at the end of the summer term.
A determined group of parents, teachers and school staff immediately banded together and galvanised action.
They drew up a proposal for their own takeover of the school, a new committee spent months of late nights formulating a rescue plan and, at a crisis meeting with the Sisters of Mercy at their convent in Yeadon, Leeds, the proposals were agreed and a new era for Mylnhurst was born.
Within a year nursery numbers had trebled, within four years pupil numbers at the school overall had risen by 80 per cent, and our strong links to the Hallam diocese remain to this day.
To mark the anniversary, we invited back those parents and now-retired staff to enjoy a ‘thank you’ reunion lunch complete with birthday cake, tour the still-thriving school they saved, and see the enduring legacy of their incredible efforts 30 years ago.
It was a truly wonderful way to celebrate Mylnhurst with some very special saviours from our past, and really underlined what an honour it is for us to be custodians of this precious place.