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Queensmead
Situated in South Ruislip, at the "bottom" end of Queens Walk.
Or.....go to the Queensmead School "real" website
Right, duck down under the low flying plane and click on the button below to visit the forum to see who is about.
Memories by a former pupil
Queensmead
Secondary School: 1952 to 1956
Victoria Road, South Ruislip…
Brand new school in 1952. We were the first students to start the first grade.
(11 years old).
School uniform was gray and purple……..geeeezz purple would you believe (is it still this colour????) I think the school motto was “Endeavor” if I recall.
Headmaster:
Mr. George Harmer. Good Guy, strict but very fair.
Mr. Stapp: Woodwork and Technical Drawing. Good guy.
Miss Fontaine: Art, (see comments below)
Mr Woodall: History...Very intense and taught the subject with passion
Mr Adams: P.E. and maths. (See comments below)
Miss Thomas: Biology. Another of my favourites!
Mr Perry: Science, nearly killed himself…see comments below.
Mr. Rowe: Maths. (Hopeless, see comments below)
Mrs Hart. Music….Poor girl had her hands full dealing with us in our mid teens. Great figure!!
Mr Wicks? Metalwork….SOB…..!!..see comments below.
Mr James: Geography…Nice guy
Mr Edwards: English…Which was ironic since he was Welsh!
Alan Scott: pushed down the stairs and broke his ankle in three places. Carried him home to Primrose Gardens in the lunch hour.
In the metalwork Lab, Peter Grant
wrote his name with his finger through the condensation on the window. Wicks
wasn’t happy, and Peter wouldn’t own up, so the whole class got a detention.
The detentions were held on a Wednesday, and you had to complete an exam paper
before you could leave, or get the cane! Since the basketball practice was on
that night, and that was my passion at the time, I generally opted for the cane
so I wouldn’t miss it. However, they soon caught on to this and it was exams
instead.
Another sadistic method of punishment in the metalwork class was to stand straight and hold a bench block with stretched out arms for “ever” it seemed. The bench blocks were about 6 inches in diameter and 3 inches high solid steel. Your arms would ache for several days after that!
Bumped into the English teacher whilst running down the corridor (which was a no-no) He asked why I was running and I said “Because I was in a hurry sir” Sarcastically, he replied “you were in a hurry” So I replied, “Oh sorry sir, I were in a hurry sir”
Mr. Adams, PE instructor would wait until all the guys were in the shower after gym, and then dish out punishments by lining up the offenders bent over with their hands on the wall, and whacking their bare butts with a running shoe in front of all the others. Now if that isn’t humiliating, I don’t know what is!!
Miss Fontaine (Art) Thought I was talented, and wanted me to take private lessons with her after school, to study anatomy…….If I knew then what I know now, I wooddav!!
Mr Rowe.(Maths) Hopeless, never taught a thing, spent the whole lesson, and every lesson, telling us kids how terrible we all were until the bell rang to end the lesson. I swear looking back, that he did that because he didn’t know the first thing about maths!!
Mr Perry (Science) risky. Once made chlorine gas under glass but some of it blew out and he spent the rest of the lesson coughing badly, thought he was going to “expire” I think he did too! Also made a gas bomb from a treacle tin. I also tried it at home when my parents were out and put a big dent in the ceiling! I won’t elaborate!
Gymnastics Team.
Basketball “A” team Captain. Never lost a season.
Bullied by Peter Grant on many occasions, even though we were friends most of the time.
Best friend: Raymond Batt. He was nuts, joined the army when he was 16.
I went in for the Christmas opera in the last grade….was a laugh, many of the teachers in it to!
Oh and….. The Gym and the bicycle sheds served their usual service with cigarettes and the girls…..learnt a few things there, but that’s another story!!
Robert Norman (e-mail address held by Ruislip Online)
1248 140903
