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School Notes

Another year has passed and in its wake we are left with many things to note.

We offer our best wishes to those who have left us, to Mr. Cooper, who has left the soot-laden air of Oldham for the fresh breezes of Coventry, to Mrs. Morris, who we hope is enjoying her retirement and doing the things she never found time to do before, to Miss Turbefield and Mr. Edwards, who have been with us since we began as Greenhill Grammar School, to Miss Best, to whom we offer our felicitations on her marriage, to Miss Pomfret, who was a very active member of several clubs and societies, and to Mr. Evans, whose vitality we shall miss.

We welcome the new members of the staff with a sincere wish that their stay at Greenhill will be a happy one.   Miss Rowe is now known to the historians, Miss Parker to the French linguists, Mrs. Clark is our first Domestic Science mistress, Miss Smethurst and Mr. Cox have come to supervise the Physical Education of the school and Mr. Fogg has joined the Mathematics department.

The Ex-students held their Annual Dance, which was a success as usual, on llth January, 1957.

The Scientific Society has yet to hold its dance.  Most members have visited several places of scientific and industrial interest; and they have had many meetings about many things, not about cabbages and kings, but about a great variety even so.

The Hockey Team held its dance in November and this proved a great success, thanks to the efforts of Miss Smethurst, the Hockey Team, Mr. Handforth and his amusing song about the Hockey Team, and the other back-room boys.

The Annual Xmas Parties came as a great relief at the end of the long winter term.   At the Senior Party, Mr. Nicholls gave his impressions of school dinners from the schoolboy's point of view and caused an uproar with his very accurate and amusing observations.   At the Middle School Party certain women members of the staff caricatured the Net-ball Team with Mrs. Kuler as referee.

The only other dance of note was the Prefects' Dance, which was held at King Street Stores and went off with a bang as usual, with Mr. Nicholls as M.C. (one could also put it down to the 300 balloons thrown from the balcony).

The Operatic Society gave its first production on our own stage on March 8th and 9th, 1956, as the Grande Finale to the School Concert.   The next Concert will be produced in February.
In Summer a Tennis Tournament was played between the staff and the pupils.  Needless to say the staff won.   Also there was a cricket match between the staff and the boys, resulting in a victory for the School.

At half-term the girl prefects played the boy prefects at hockey and the boys won! Result : 10-0.  A definite case of brute strength and ignorance over skill.

Other things of note this term were the sight of Mr. Petford in drain-pipes for "Trial by Jury" and the women's staff in gym-slips for their net-ball game.

In the Town Swimming Gala, Hilda Silverman, Geoffrey Gordon, John Wood and Derek Morris won medals.

A small party of French students visited an exhibition about Marcel Proust at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.

A holiday abroad is planned this year in Switzerland.  There was such a large response that the party had to be restricted to a certain number.   However, the younger ones will have other opportunities to go abroad.

A school party went as usual to the Castleshaw Camp, supervised by Miss Taylor, Miss Pomfret and Mr. Handforth.

Mr. Wells took a party on excursions to the Lake District, Ingleton and York.

The speaker at our Speech Night this year was Dr. Mabel Tylecote, who gave a most interesting and amusing speech with one or two serious ideas.   She praised the "plodders" and told them not to be discouraged by the success of their quicker but more superficial friends, the "highflyers."

I will end on a note of congratulation to Mr. Tempest, who is now a proud father.

Calendar - Spring and Summer Terms, 1957