Now that the Infant School has sadly gone and is about to be built on, i thought i'd share some memories of going to said school!
I would have gone around...'87-'90 ish time.
I have mostly fond memories, my teachers were (in order i think) Mrs Leader, Mrs Hulloch (sp?) for a time, Miss Jackson and Mrs Welding and Mrs Farrell ( i think she was a support teacher?). Did anyone else go around the same time or remember the teachers? Mrs Kernohan was also there but she took the other class to mine, so i rarely got her.
We always had to sing 'we're going home, sshhh shh (fingers on lips)" at the end of each day in Mrs Leaders class, it was embarrassing then, never mind now!
I remember Miss Jackson used to play the guitar, she used to get us to sing Puff the Magic Dragon near hometimes.
'Numberland' books, they were the thing to have! You got a higher number book the futher you progressed, i remember it was quite competitive, or at least to me it was, i never had the highest number in the class sadly.
Playing in the yard, the yard at the front overlooking the valley was much bigger, used to play hopscotch, hide and seek etc, not much more to entertain us then but it seemed to be enough! I remember there was a wooden/brick building to the side of the school in the side yard area, we were never allowed to go into it, it was always locked. Does anyone remember what it was? It must have previously been used for something but i don't know what.
One day myself and Gary Collinson and 2 others (i can't remember who) went outside of the school gates as bizarrely there were shells on the path down the road and we wanted to get them, i remember we were briskly sent down to Mrs Jarvis room, we all thought we were going to get 'the cane' although i think it had been stopped long before then! We just got a good telling off but it was scary at the time!!
I remember Mrs Jarvis room being really neat, dark wood, coal fire, nice and cosy, quite different to elsehwere in the school.
Another thing i remember...is the school had discos, and i'm sure older kids used to go...i.e i don't remember them from the school but they were there at the discos. The big thing at the time was the strobe light and the new song that i remember playing was "i've got the power" (1990).
Mr Clough was the caretaker and he and his wife lived close by in Cooks Cottages, possibly even the adjoining house.
The school closed a few years later. I think by the time my sister went to school in 94, the 'lego' Junior School had become infants and juniors.
Who else went to the Infant School (or what i'd call the infant school, i know it wasn't always just infants!)
As an aside, i noticed Gleeson homes had the site advertised as White House Court to start with...mustn't have done their research! It would have been confused with Whitehouse Court where i now reside! Temperance Court is more like it, although why didn't they just call is School Court?
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How about these teachers, can anyone remeber them, Mr Trotter (Head) The Bailes sisters, Mr Spence, Mrs Forrester, Miss Lewis, John Wilkinson, Mrs Ross, Mrs Hankey and here's to you Mrs Robinson?
ReplyDeleteOr how about playing football in the yard (Front of school tarmac area) with white wood posts and geen metal bases, girls playing netball in the top yard.
Ps,
Did you know that in 1965 the school football team won the county league (under 11s) with all team members being presented with a small silver cup and the school a large shield.
(I have a photo of the team with Current County Councillor John Wilkinson who was the team manager (and teacher)
I didn't know that about the football team...but i do remember Miss Lewis from the Junior school when i went in the 90's. I think she retired when i was there and sadly died a few years ago now.
ReplyDeletemy son's Michael, Craig, and Graham Bottoms all went to that school in and around that time frame
ReplyDeleteDawn, I was in the same year as Michael (born 1982) and have fond memories of the schools and the infamous baked bean which was stuck on the dining room ceiling and painted over many times......it was still there when i did work experience there - im sure it probably wasn't a bean but it made for a better story!
ReplyDeleteI remember all theses teachers Dave, i was at the infants around 55/56 before going to Ushaw Moor secondary modern. Good times, remember always having to put the sports things away after playing with them....my job!! Val Pearson.
ReplyDeletei remember mr trotter the missis Bailes etc well went to school with Rita hutchinson Edith Elliot Verna wingfield and kathleen duthie to name but a few. My sons also went there when Miss Hankey was head but went to the new junior school
ReplyDeleteThe building on the side yard used to be the library (and was first year juniors teachers classroom) when I went there in 1978.
ReplyDeleteI recall being part of a group of four lads who had misbehaved, my heart sank when Mr Trotter said sternly "there are 4 boys in this assembly, you know who you are, who are to stay behind when everyone else has gone" the four of us glanced at each other and acknowleged it was us he was referring too. On discussiing our hienious crime our punishment was to be the cane, unprecedented, as he said in all his year in teaching he had never given anyone the cane before "this is going to hurt me more than it does you" he told us. Well i,m sure he got the last bit wrong, six of the best and boy did it hurt. Mr T was a great head teacher, the staff and School were fantastic and when people look back and refer to Schooldays as the best in there life, I for one know what they are on about.
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