Having drawn all my form teachers from infant and junior school, how could I not continue and include my teachers from Ossett Grammar School, from 1962 to 1967.
Miss Eves had her classroom at the right-hand end of the prefabricated classrooms, opposite the school dinners kitchen. Her specialist subject was religious education.
Mr Foster’s classroom was down the slope from Park House, the oldest part of the school, in a recently-built block of single-story classrooms. He was a mathematics teacher.
Mr McGrady, the music teacher, was based, as you might guess, as far out of earshot of the rest of the school as possible, in the music room in the other, smaller, block of ‘temporary’ prefabricated classrooms overlooking the school playing field.
Mr Mason’s classroom was in the brick-built block of the school, towards the art room end. I can’t remember what his specialisation was. English perhaps. At the end of summer term he left the school and went to teach in Africa.
Mr Beaumont was the woodwork teacher. Again his classroom was in the brick-built block, this time at the gymnasium end.
I didn’t stay on into the sixth form. I was ready and eager to start at art college.
Mr Mason’s specialisation was History
Thank you, I had gradually remembered more about ’Perry’, including one or two tales from his student days (involving the Birds Eye pea production line for example) and his plans to take a job in Africa.
Miss Eves was our form teacher in year 2 at OGS and our form room was Room 10 … just through the main entrance door of the Old Building and adjacent to the Head masters Office. I first met my future wife in that class 1956 and we will soon have reached our 60th wedding celebration. I remember “Looney” Moore as the person who finally managed to get me to understand Geometry and who also ran our brilliant Chess Club … he once made me serve a detention when he caught me a fiend playing Chess in a science … as he might of said… How did you get caught be a blind deer … no idea!!
Thank you Malcolm. Miss Eves had moved to the ‘temporary huts’ when I joined 1E in September 1962 along with Mrs Gallon’s 1G and Mr Hughes in adjacent classrooms.