Animated Musical Christmas Cards I made for the Alumni of my Old School

The practice of making E-cards dates back to the days when, as a member of Staff at my old school, I helped out with the dreaded 'DIDA'. From Christmas 2014, I, the webmistress of this site, made an animated, musical 'swf ' Christmas cyber-card from the Wolverhampton Girls' High School Old Girls' Union to all of its members. In my role as editor of the Wolverhampton Girls' High School Old Girls' Union newsletter I began to create and mail them out to Old Girls in 2014. They were well received. This continued in an official capacity until 2023 - my last year as editor - I now just do a card for Old Girls in a totally unofficial role - one of an Old Girl and past member of the school staff.

From 2014 to 2016 I made Flash cards. This site contains a section on how to use Flash to make swf files. If you have the software do check it out. They are fun to make! If not, you can still check out the activity swfs on there.... ideal to keep small children (and those aduts with childlike traits) amused in the Christmas season. But because malware could be inserted into the coding of Flash (and because Adobe wanted to decommision all of the old Macromedia products...) Flash died in 2020 and I have replaced the originals on this page with HTML5 versions.


2014 Angels' Carol by John Rutter	2015 Carol of the Bells by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych in 1914 with lyrics by Peter J. Wilhousky	2016 "O Holy Night" was based on a French-language poem by poet Placide Cappeau, (1843). Adolphe Adam set it to music in 1847.

2017 White Chritsmas by Irving Berlin - played by the Wind Band	2018 Silent Night composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr	2019 'Angelus Ad Virginem' - a 13th Century Carol.

2020 WGHS School Orchestra playing a selection of carols. Il est né, le Divin Enfant Silent Night Angels, from the Realms of Glory	2021 Candlelight Carol by John Rutter	2022 Czech Cuckoo Carol
2023 Ding Dong Merrily On High by George Ratcliffe Woodward, (1848-1934)	2024 I syng of a mayden (sometimes titled "As Dewe in Aprille") is a Middle English lyric poem or carol of the 15th century

Just click on the card you want to see... make sure you have the sound turned on!

If you have any 'Christmassy' photos of your schooldays that you would be williing for me to use please let me have them...

Email: wghsoldgirls@hotmail.co.uk

This is the photo I took of the hall the last Christmas I was there as a member of Staff......

The main school hall - Christmas 2013

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