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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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severncity
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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bluethrough
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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bluethrough
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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BLUETIT
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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The Bloop
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. :hehe::hehe:
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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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severncity
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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BLUETIT
Could be a, oh frigg that I'm not stirring the nutters up. :hehe::hehe:
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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Bluebirdman Of Alcathays
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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bluethrough
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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headlight
Whitchurch High 72-77 for me.
Was Pickard (Geog teacher) your football coach?
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bluethrough
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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Forest Green Bluebird
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.
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Forest Green Bluebird
Was Pickard (Geog teacher) your football coach?
I remember Pickard though. Almost nodded off reading his name. He's not your dad, is he? :hide:
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Bluebirdman Of Alcathays
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? :hide:
:hehe:
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Forest Green Bluebird
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 :biggrin:
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Think the sadist PE teacher was called Russel Davies ?