We also had Mrs Staples who taught - can't remember but she did optional first aid courses in the lunch hour. I took one and fainted in the first lesson when she talked about a butcher cutting the artery in his leg. I didn't go back though she urged me to. She was rumoured to be Russian.
Miss Loxton took me on my own for A-level maths because I wanted to do biology as well and that wasn't possible in the normal syllabus so special arrangements were made for me. She told me I gave up too easily. Strange the things you remember, or perhaps not.
Miss Jones taught us maths up until then. I recall she married at some point and came back to school with a new name. She was surely too old to marry! (Probably in her 30s or maybe even 20s.)
Miss Bailey, physics, another stereotypical spinster lady.
For gym we wore navy knickers and . . . we must have had t-shirts but I don't remember them. I was not at all sporty. We played netball on the pitch within the school grounds but for hockey we had to walk to the top of the hill behind the school to play in the Ganges, and still we wore navy knickers though in summer when we walked down the hill to the public tennis courts we played in white shorts. My mum made me a white culotte dress and I was the envy of everyone.
Our uniform was a gymslip, shirt and blue and green tie. Thankfully after the first two years you could wear a skirt instead of the hideous gymslip. Outside of school it was the rule that we had to wear our berets. If you were caught not wearing it you could be punished. Nobody wore them on the bus or until the last possible moment. Some girls could wear them and look cool; I was not one of those girls.
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| I am in the second row, fourth from the right. 1965-66 |
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We didn't wear uniforms at my school. Except for 2 twin girls who had moved to our town from gawd-knows-where, who had previously gone to private school and so had uniforms. They wore the uniforms constantly. I guess their Mom was making sure they got their money's worth out of the clothes.
Our gym teacher, we thought she was about 75, got married. I expect she was in her thirties, in fact. Likewise another ancient teacher who had a baby! Wasn't she way too old?? Well, probably not!
No uniform where I went to school. In the higher grades we did have suits that we wore for physical education though. They were a one piece blue and white thing that zipped up
I remember girls wearing those navy blue bloomers in gym. I don't know why because we didn't have gym together.
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