Registration: 13 Members and Guests

Registration and Tea/coffee and Pastries

Welcome and introduction
Peter Jakobek President of AROPS welcomed all present and then gave a short introduction of his career at BGS
and then an explanation of AROPS and its mission.

General Discussion Points:
• Introduction by all present individually and in detail of their Alumni and Schools
• Discussion on communications and methods employed.
• Discussion on Digital Media
• Discussion on Social Media
• Discussion on privacy and negative aspects of censorship
• Discussion on Content, Emails and Marketing
• Discussion on Leavers, Parents, Alumni Joiners Pros and Cons
• Year Reunion aspects and examples
• Databases discussion and management systems
• Discussion on Mentoring for sixth form students by Alumni
• Pros and Cons of hard copies of magazines to Schools and Alumni including time and costs.
• Value of newsletters
• Discussion of Websites and Their Content

Lunch 1230 to 1400
• Presentation by SDS the digital archive company by Mark and Andy
• 30-year-old company
• Many prestigious customers
• To help connect AROPS Website to member schools Websites.
• Vote of thanks for presentation

The President thanked all those present for attending.

The meeting ended at 1500