Form Notes: 5X
After spending four happy years in blissful ignorance, 5X suddenly awoke to the fact that School Certificate loomed on the horizon and found them unprepared for the ordeal. The urge to work possessed everyone (almost). The Christmas and Easter holidays formed a respite from the labours of school.
The form was well represented at the First Annual Speech Day in December, when we carried all before us (the rewards of past labours).
Although not a particularly sportive class, Table Tennis provides a tranquil recreation to our overworked brains.
For the last five years our form master, Mr. G. Wright, has suffered us for better or for worse. In February, for the first time, he was able to meet our respective parents officially. His opinions that night remain a closed book but ominous hints lead us to suspect the worst.
During the Easter holidays, two trips were kindly organised by Mr. Wells, the Geography Master, and were patronised by 5X. They included a local trip to Chew Valley and a hiking tour of Ingleton and district. Aches and pains ensued the following day but all enjoyed these outings.
Alas, we are now back with our noses to the grindstone and we are overpowered with the steady increase in our amount of homework.
Many people of the form hold official positions in the Houses and so an increased weight rests on their shoulders, as well as their heads,
Although we are unaggressive by nature, certain calamities do occur, such as three broken picture-frames, many autographed desks, and walls re-decorated by ink and apple cores.
We (the fairer half of the class) speak for ourselves, but our self-styled better halves shirk the responsibilities of authorship.
However, we shall endeavour to uphold the honour of the school by showing to the full our numerous capabilities and we will no doubt produce at least one of the leading statesmen of the world!
Form Notes: 5Y
NEWS—PROGRESS REPORT
| ART: | By Harold Hough and Harry Home, the H-Artists | ||
| BIOLOGY: | Counting fine fins on five fat fishes | ||
| CHEMISTRY: | Oxo better than H2SO4 | ||
| FRENCH: | School blackboard fund | ||
| GEOGRAPHY: | Peanut butter, grapes and lettuce. (Woi, No MEAT !) | ||
| GERMAN: | Ich habe keine Ahnung | ||
| GYM.: | Accused of being rabbits. | ||
| HISTORY: | King John promoted to the rank of "The Impossible Prince", i.e. can stop births, marriages and deaths - promoted by Lord Harold, the artist. | ||
| MATHS: | Enjoyed by one but not by all. We have decided to use pencils instead of brains as suggested by our friend, Miss Ogden, who, on being told "Think, girl, think!" replied, "Th'ink ? My pen's dry". | ||
| PHYSICS: | Minus six for the G.C.E. | ||
| ENGLISH: | Test Papers—or is it Tennyson and Browning? |
We are pleased to report that our friend, Sylvia Ogden, is back at school, and we wish her all the best for her future health.
The girls who went with Miss Turner, youth hostelling, would like to thank her for a very enjoyable time. Also, we would like to express our thanks to Mr. Wells, for organising a pleasant trip to the Lake District and to Ingleton.
For three days the girls of our form knitted enthusiastically and produced twenty-four squares for the blanket which went to the flood victims. We would like to thank Mr. Sedgley for his encouragement and are pleased to report that few stitches were dropped in the process!
The Christmas Party was a great success and so was the Glodwick Glee Club (mentioning no names except Mr. Nicholls, Mr. Wells, Mr. Handforth, and, of course, our own Gilly Potter, alias Anthony Gilmour).
Extra French and English students thank Mr. Nicholls for the Market-place demonstration, viz. :
"Tins of salmon coming up in a minute, lady. Now we have two more pots of plum jam".
Does this remind you of Mark Anthony's speech or the crowd's reply :
"The will, the will. We want the will" ?
We are also very well-informed on the subject of bull-fighting.
So much for news. Now we of 5Y present to you our very own story.
There was once a young girl called Janet who had long hair which she wore in two Platts, a long one and a short one. She lived in a cottage at the junction of three fields, Scho-field, Cor-field and Drans-field. In her garden she grew Seville oranges and Murphy potatoes. At the bottom of the garden in the old Og-den she kept a Barrow. She was a "Grainger" fan and once when she went to the pictures in Lees she met a man with a White head called Kershaw who had just been to the Barber's. Kershaw was angry.
"Du-rant and rave like this every day and go off in a Hough?" she asked.
Kershaw and his friends had a race to the "Blue Home", owned by Davies, but Kershaw was beaten and with that and the fact that the Barber had cut off all his hair, he was very angry and he shouted and Stuttard.
"Never mind", said his friends, we'll let the Bald(one)win".
When Janet arrived they had one Gil-1-mour before the Light went out.