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    Apart from Gareth Bale ...

    Who else on this board were educated at Whitchurch High School?

    Me ... 1970-78

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    I wasn’t but I was wondering how you managed to be at high school for 8 years?

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    I was there occasionally in the period between 72-76

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    Quote Originally Posted by severncity View Post
    I wasn’t but I was wondering how you managed to be at high school for 8 years?


    I think you could stay in 6th form till you passed your exams in those days. Seem to remember a bloke with a beard in school uniform when I started in the upper school.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bluethrough View Post
    Seem to remember a bloke with a beard in school uniform when I started in the upper school.
    Are you sure he wasn't the headmaster?

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    Quote Originally Posted by bluethrough View Post
    I think you could stay in 6th form till you passed your exams in those days. Seem to remember a bloke with a beard in school uniform when I started in the upper school.

    We had a kid with a full beard in form 3 (14/15), in St Illtyds, his name was Francis Bonello

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    Quote Originally Posted by BLUETIT View Post
    We had a kid with a full beard in form 3 (14/15), in St Illtyds, his name was Francis Bonello
    People were a lot hairier 70 years ago

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    Head boy at Whitchurch last year had a full beard. Not sure that this year's head boy has even started shaving yet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Bloop View Post
    Head boy at Whitchurch last year had a full beard. Not sure that this year's head boy has even started shaving yet.
    Could be a, oh frigg that I'm not stirring the nutters up.

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    While most kids were in the dinner hall or down the chippy, there was a fifth former in our school that used to pop to the local pub for a lunchtime pint. You'd see him through the window sat at the bar with a pint of bitter, fag on the go, reading the Racing Post. He got the nickname Jack Duckworth.
    For some reason the teachers used to turn a blind eye to it. Presumably he was in possession of some compromising information.

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    I was there between '81 and '87. I wouldn't call it being educated though.

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    Whitchurch High 72-77 for me.

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    Re: Apart from Gareth Bale ...

    Quote Originally Posted by severncity View Post
    I wasn’t but I was wondering how you managed to be at high school for 8 years?

    1971/72 1st Form
    1972/73 2nd Form
    1973/74 3rd Form
    1974/75 4th Form
    1975/76 5th Form (O-levels)
    1976/77 Lower 6th Form
    1977/78 Lower 6th (General)
    1978/79 Upper 6th (A-levels)

    Along with about 20 others I had to repeat the Lower 6th because I did not have good enough grades!

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    Quote Originally Posted by BLUETIT View Post
    Could be a, oh frigg that I'm not stirring the nutters up.
    I don't think that there are calls yet for a Head Neutral or Head Non-Binary aswell as boy and girl

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    There was a lad in st francis with a full beard, pubes, the works, at the age of 10.

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    Re: Apart from Gareth Bale ...

    Quote Originally Posted by Bluebirdman Of Alcathays View Post
    I was there between '81 and '87. I wouldn't call it being educated though.
    I may have taught you PE or Maths then as I did my teaching practice there in 1981/82

    I went to Cardiff College of Ed (Cyncoed) from 1978 to 1982

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    Re: Apart from Gareth Bale ...

    Quote Originally Posted by bluethrough View Post
    I think you could stay in 6th form till you passed your exams in those days. Seem to remember a bloke with a beard in school uniform when I started in the upper school.
    Correct ... the only way I could stay on was to re-sit failed exams. Only one chance though.

    Spent too much time working behind the bar in the Hollybush (Coryton) instead of concentrating on studies.

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    Re: Apart from Gareth Bale ...

    Quote Originally Posted by headlight View Post
    Whitchurch High 72-77 for me.
    Was Pickard (Geog teacher) your football coach?

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    Re: Apart from Gareth Bale ...

    Quote Originally Posted by bluethrough View Post
    I was there occasionally in the period between 72-76
    Naughty boy or 'forces' child?

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    I can remember people coming back for a 3rd year of sixth form. I used to have dreams that I was still in school because I couldn't pass my A-levels.

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    Ian Wright meets his old school teacher.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omPdemwaNzQ

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    Quote Originally Posted by Forest Green Bluebird View Post
    I may have taught you PE or Maths then as I did my teaching practice there in 1981/82

    I went to Cardiff College of Ed (Cyncoed) from 1978 to 1982
    I think it was Bagnall for Maths and Dudley-Jones for PE. Can't remember a trainee, sorry.

    Quote Originally Posted by Forest Green Bluebird View Post
    Was Pickard (Geog teacher) your football coach?
    I remember Pickard though. Almost nodded off reading his name. He's not your dad, is he?

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    Re: Apart from Gareth Bale ...

    Quote Originally Posted by Bluebirdman Of Alcathays View Post
    I think it was Bagnall for Maths and Dudley-Jones for PE. Can't remember a trainee, sorry.



    I remember Pickard though. Almost nodded off reading his name. He's not your dad, is he?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Forest Green Bluebird View Post
    Was Pickard (Geog teacher) your football coach?
    Was he the one that took games wearing wellies ?
    Didn"t do football though really.
    Egg was Bob Dudley-Jones mainly for me, sometimes a Geography or thinking about it it might have been a History teacher that wore wellies.
    Gym was some sadist that used to play hockey for Wales whose idea of a gym lesson was to line you up against the wall bars in just shorts & hit a hockey ball at you as hard as he could.
    Had his come uppance when 2 boys I knew bumped into him in the Butchers Arms Rhiwbina when they were about 17 & had left school.
    Took great pleasure in showing him the error of his teaching ways in the car park

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    Think the sadist PE teacher was called Russel Davies ?

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