A sepia photograph of a school group

What’s Your School’s Story?

A series of FREE talks at Jersey Archive

Details

  • 19 April 2025 - 20 December 2025
  • Jersey Archive

Discover the stories of local schools, the teachers and staff who worked there, the pupils who started their journeys in the classroom and the surrounding community in a series of free talks by Jersey Archive staff.

Talks start at 10am and last approximately 1 hour, the archive is available from 9am to 1pm to carry out your own research.

Talks are FREE of charge but due to limited seating you must reserve your space by contacting Jersey Archive on +44 (0) 1534 833300 or by emailing us

Talk dates and themes
Saturday, 19 April / St Martin's School
Saturday, 17 May / St Luke's School
Saturday, 21 June / La Moye School
Saturday, 19 July / First Tower School
Saturday, 16 August / St Mark's School
Saturday, 20 September / St Lawrence School
Saturday, 18 October / St Clement's School
Saturday, 15 November / Trinity School
Saturday, 20 December / Schools at Christmas Time

Research

Jersey Heritage Online Catalogue

Discover more about our collections by searching the online catalogue which contains over 750,000 descriptions of the unique documents and objects that we care for.

The online catalogue allows you to explore digital images of many of our collections from wherever you are in world. This includes resources for family and social history, photographs from the Jersey Evening Post and Société Jersiaise archives, images of our object and art collections in store and archaeological finds.

Start your research

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