From: June Barnes (nee Halliwell)
(A pupil at the school 1960 – 64)

Like many, I remember ‘Nitty Nora’s’ regular visits to the school.  This was our name for the school nurse doing head louse inspections.  Everyone knew her as  ‘Nitty Nora – the bug explorer’.  We queued up on the back stairs to be examined in the staff room (now the mother’s room).  As we waited we watched for those in front to come out.  A tell tale bulge under the jumper or cardigan meant that the unlucky child had been given a card to take home.  It was as good as putting a sign on them saying  – ‘I’ve got nits!’

Perhaps others will remember Herbert, Mr Batty’s slipper, which did more than keep Mr Batty’s feet warm!

I was promoted from the B to the A stream and remember the day I was taken out of class and escorted across the Hall to Miss Sutcliffe’s class.  It was hard to fit in with the others.

I really enjoyed the Newspaper we did in Miss Hindle’s class and still have my ‘reporter’ badge.  There were different groups making their own newspaper.  My group was called ‘Flame’.  The others were ‘Kon Tiki’,  ‘Bluebird’, ‘Hawk’ and ‘Python’.  We made our own badges – there was an editor (I think it was Brian Fenton) and reporters for each group of eight.

 Pupils in  Miss Hindle’s class were allowed to be cloakroom monitors.  We made sure that all the pupils behaved as they came into school 9.00 o’clock and at playtime.  No one was allowed to sneak in a hide in the cloakrooms in clod playtimes.  These positions of power soon vanished when we went to the senior school!