From September, the building of La Mare De Carteret High School will be turned into a makeshift Sixth Form Centre while post-16 facilities are planned for Les Ozouets.
Students, parents and staff members returned to the school to see it one last time as La Mare De Carteret.
Former La Mare headteacher, now principal of Les Varendes High, Verona Tomlin, said that the open afternoon was a ‘full stop moment' for the school in its current form.
‘We’ve been treading water for quite some time, waiting for this to happen, planning and doing all the work for this and getting ready to say goodbye.
‘It’s not the building, it’s the people who are in it. It feels right that it happens now because we’ve got to look to the future, it’s a bit of a full stop moment.’
She added that it was great to see that so many people had returned to the celebrate the school and all of the staff and students that had walked through the halls.
Chris Reeves, 30, moved to the primary school and attended the secondary school until he left in 2011 to go into the sixth form. Some of his memories related to getting into trouble, he said, but he was sad about the closure of the school that his mum also attended.
‘I’ve always been tied to this school, I kept coming back once I left,’ he said. ‘I did work experience in the primary school and returned to the secondary school to see friends younger than me and my old teachers.’
But he said that he lost his deep connection with the school when there was a change of staff and his teachers no longer worked there.
The current pupils at the school are in their last week of lessons. After activity week next week, the school will begin its transformation into the Sixth Form Centre.
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