ST Hugh’s High School Past Students’ Association will today start the commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the founding of the outstanding all-girls’ school under the theme ‘Fit and Alive for 125’.

The past students will be using the anniversary to celebrate every member of the school community while looking with hope to the future.

The first event will be the annual school awards ceremony to acknowledge outstanding students of the school today at St Luke’s Anglican Church, Cross Roads, St Andrew, starting at 9:00 am. This will be followed by a welcome cocktail for overseas past students.

On Friday all past students, popularly called “Swans”, are invited to return to the school and interact with students from 7:30 am to 2:30 pm.

This is being planned as a day of pep talks, career talks, sports, games and school-based fun. Later on Friday, all past students will be invited to join in an evening of fun, laughter and reminiscing at 22 Jerk on Barbican Road in St Andrew.

The highlight of the week will be the anniversary banquet, which will be an evening of elegance, entertainment and awards to past students who have contributed not only to the legacy of the school, but nationally and globally.

The banquet will be held on Saturday at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel and will feature as guest speaker President of the Court of Appeal Justice Marva McDonald Bishop.

The school community will gather for a thanksgiving service at 10:30 am on Sunday at St Luke’s Anglican Church, Cross Roads before ending the celebrations with a fun day at Puerto Seco Beach in St Ann on Monday.

The swan is the official mascot of St Hugh’s High School and it is admired for its fierce defence instincts, elegance in flight and swimming, and grace and benevolence to its family. Fidelitas is the school’s motto, which means loyalty.