5A Form Report - The Gentlemen
Our form consists of 26 pupils, 13 girls and we, THE BOYS ! !
On the sports and athletic fields our boys supply a considerable contribution to the school. J. Wood is a promising 220 yards runner for town and school. Taylor, the big lad (5 feet nothing in his socks) plays football for his house and school.
On the late-lamented rugby field we have Hart, Wood, Thornley, Buckley and Faulkner, who have represented the school many times. All these players keep up the standard of their game by playing for Oldham R.U.F.C.
Wright, Hart, Thornley and Wood have swum for house and school. Jones and Faulkner also swim for their houses.
R. Biggs shows himself to be a keen amateur photographer and also a very good one.
We have a few keen cyclists and seven of us are in the Y.H.A.
NEIL THORNLEY, 5A.
Form 5A Girls
We are fortunate in having for our form master Mr. George Wright, perhaps better known to the History set as "Mr. And-er". This year we extend a welcome to Maureen Dixon and Barbara Wright, making a total of thirteen girls. Four of our girls, whom I think it would be advisable to leave anonymous, are honorary members of the school's most celebrated club, which performs its activities without failure every break and goes under the suitable name of the "Outside the Men's Staffroom Society". We have representatives in most of the sporting activities and also on the science side.
5B Form Report
In our form there are 16 boys and 12 girls. The best way to recognise the sexes is the "hair" method: All the boys (with one startling exception) wear their hair short. On the girls' side (inferior in number, but superior in every other respect) Yvonne Millward and Margaret Jones are the form's official cooks, whilst Joan Herd is the lone female artist. This half of the class room (vulgarly known as the Hen Pen) also boasts a scientific genius(?), Margaret Trotter, and a number of noisy but agreeable girls who shall be nameless.
The class boasts two redheads - Owen (The Red-haired Romeo) and Marion (The Crimson Cat).
On the male side, Wild and Aldersley answer all the questions and pretend they haven't heard this all before. Mayrick successfully raises havoc whilst Godfrey draws flattering(?) portraits of the Staff. On the Front Bench (Sorry, Row) Mortin gives a successful imitation of an Olde Englishe Sheepdog. Rothwell is a frustrated genius whilst Hoyle, The Mad Musician, is just frustrated. When Wilson and Mills have each got 9 subjects in G.C.E. they intend to go on the boards with a witty cross-talk act.
Our form master, Mr. Cooper, tries to keep us to the straight and narrow paths and bails us out on Saturday night so that we can greet the world, smiling, on Monday morning.
The form motto is "Abandon hope all ye that enter here."
4L Form Report
Although we are the juniors of seniors we hope our notes will interest you. This is the first 4 Lit. but we hope not the last. As the title suggests we are called to be well up in Literary subjects (among other things). In our class the girls overpower the boys 20-7, but although there are only seven of them they have made their presence felt, especially Wrigley, with Ellis a close second. Our form consists of the former 3A, 3B and 3C, 9, 12 and 5 respectively, and also one new girl from Hulme.
Our form master is Mr. Reeves who looks after us all very well, and June Brooks collects our Charities.
P. MATTHEWS.
4S Form Report
We have now embarked on a new school year. We have a new form master, Mr. Petford, and also a new form room. Various activities are being pursued by members of our science form.
Quite a few boys have been on the Under XV soccer team and several of the girls play netball and hockey. Rodney Smith has played on the school first team and is also one of the best anglers in the form, together with Fred Ogden and Philip Schofield. Hobbies such as train-spotting, stamp-collecting and coin-collecting are also pursued by some of our members. Jack Bottomley is the best aero-modeller in the form, and Frank Briggs is the best chemist. The radio enthusiasts of the form are John Battersby and Anthony Adams.
4 SCIENCE.
4G Form Report, 1955
September 1st and back to school after a glorious six weeks' holiday, to meet again our friends and to make new friends with the new boys and girls of the school. Our form is 4G. It is a mixed class, made up of 20 girls and 7 boys and our form teacher is Mr. Wright.
Some of the pupils came out of different forms to make up the "General" form. The pupils are just getting used to each other. In our form there are many keen cyclists, athletes and. swimmers. Two members of our form, Barry Hamer and Derek Morris, are keen cyclists and during the summer holidays they went on a tour of North Wales. Derek Morris is also a keen swimmer and he swam in the school gala and, pleasing enough, won his event and came second in the school gala. Bernard Dowd also took part in the gala, but he was in the diving and he came second. Sylvia Fitzpatrick, another member of our form, is also a keen swimmer. Jean Wright was very fortunate to captain the girls' netball team. Another member of our form, Shirley Bottomley, is a keen ornithologist and won the competition in 1953. This is all I can say about our form but when we settle down properly I think we shall get on well together as a form.
BARRY DAVIES, Form 4G.