A Bradford girls' school is appealing for pupils from its past and present to help celebrate its centenary.

St Joseph's Catholic College will be marking its 100th anniversary in 2008.

And it hopes former pupils who attended the school as long ago as the 1930s will be involved in the celebrations.

In its centenary year, the school in Cunliffe Road, Heaton, is planning a series of a major events including an open-air centennial mass, a dinner and the production of a DVD featuring the memoirs of former students.

Now it is looking for former pupils to bring in memorabilia and to help staff to identify names and faces in the school's archives.

The school has appointed a committee to oversee the celebrations.

Deputy head teacher and committee member Elaine Barker, said: "We would like people to bring in photographs, their memorabilia, meet old friends and helps us look through our archives."

The event will be held at the school on Sunday, May 16, from 2pm until 5pm.

The school will be creating a display telling the story of St Joseph's for 2008 and are hoping to produce DVD.

But the main celebration will be a centennial mass which is planned to take place on the feast of St Joseph's Day on either March 19, or May 1. The school is looking for a venue for the mass and is considering staging an open air event to allow as many former pupils as possible to attend.

The school was first opened in 1908 by the Sisters of the Cross of Passion to provide an education for catholic girls from across West Yorkshire.

Since then the school has had only seven head teachers starting with Sister Gonzaga in 1908 up to the present day head teacher Pat McDermott.

Miss Barker has been involved with the school since 1965 when she began as a pupil. She returned to work as a teacher in 1981 and is now the deputy head teacher. The school now has a joint mixed sixth form and is building a new £1.6 million extension.

But Miss Barker said the ethos of St Joseph's College had remained unchanged.

She said: "We still aim to educate our girls so that they can take their rightful place in society, and of course our uniform is still the same."

The school is a voluntary aided state school which is run by the Catholic Diocese of Leeds.

The Diocese is carrying out a review of its secondary school education in Bradford because of falling pupil numbers.

Education bosses say the review will mean reducing the number of catholic secondary schools in the city from three to two.

But Miss Barker is confident St Joseph's will continue to provide an education for girls in Bradford.

She said: "We expect to be hear in another 100 years and look forward to the school starting its second century."