Reply With QuoteI wasn’t but I was wondering how you managed to be at high school for 8 years?
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Who else on this board were educated at Whitchurch High School?
Me ... 1970-78
I wasn’t but I was wondering how you managed to be at high school for 8 years?
I was there occasionally in the period between 72-76
Originally Posted by severncity
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.
Are you sure he wasn't the headmaster?
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
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.
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.
I was there between '81 and '87. I wouldn't call it being educated though.
Whitchurch High 72-77 for me.
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!
I don't think that there are calls yet for a Head Neutral or Head Non-Binary aswell as boy and girlCould be a, oh frigg that I'm not stirring the nutters up.
There was a lad in st francis with a full beard, pubes, the works, at the age of 10.
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
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.
Was Pickard (Geog teacher) your football coach?
Naughty boy or 'forces' child?
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.
Ian Wright meets his old school teacher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omPdemwaNzQ
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?
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?
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
Think the sadist PE teacher was called Russel Davies ?
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