More Pictures

Daphne provided more pictures and says of them, " These photos were taken on a day trip to Rome. We should have most of the names already from the previous school photos. The extra boy with glasses standing behind the bus is called John Morris. Also on the photo with Mr Brotherton, his wife is in front of him and to the right is Mrs Woods who was our Italian teacher. On the photo with me and another girl, she is the daughter of Mrs Woods."

A Floor Plan of the School

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This is a floor plan of the school from memory. I have no recall of how the first form was laid out but it did have a large number of nap mats.

The Headmasters office had thin wood walls and glass windows all the way around. The single chairs just outside of the head masters office was the holding area for naughty children.

Map reading

Flt LT Tucker would occasionally run out of planned lesson content even though he was always prepared. On one occasion, we finished the mathematics assignment with a hour to spare. The rest of the school was gainfully employed and we were not to be left to our own devices. Tucker left the room and came back with military maps and for the next hour we learned how to read contour lines and map symbols. We even leaned how to manage the magnetic deviation shown on the map to orient it with a compass. I still wonder if he did not plan it because we discovered that mathematics was good for something practical. It could be actually fun! Some of life’s most useful skills are learned by accident.