General Certificate of Education
Girls: 8 Subjects - Susan Shillito. 7 Subjects - Mavis Joyce, Phyllis Wilcock. 6 Subjects - Sylvia Bebbington, Christine Brierley. 5 Subjects - Brenda Flint, Doreen Millar. 4 Subjects - Patricia A. Bayliffe, Leslie Wallis, Margaret Treadwell, Margaret Trotter. 3 Subjects - Sandra F. Wolstencroft, Barbara Wright, Cynthia Chadwick, Marion Haslam, Yvonne Millward, Joan M. Mitchell. 2 Subjects - Anne M. Haslam, Patricia M. Blakeman, Jean Gregory, Joan M. Herd, Marion P. Raynor. 1 Subject - Maureen Dixon, Margaret Jones, Anne Wilkinson.
Boys: 8 Subjects - Ronald Biggs, Frank Lamb. 7 Subjects - Norman Buckley, James Slater, John M. Wood. 6 Subjects - Michael B. Taylor, Geoffrey Newton. 5 Subjects - Graham Hart, Harold Jones, Neil E. Thornley, Norman T. Godfrey, Christopher R. Salisbury, Alfred Selby. 4 Subjects - Gary Faulkner, Colin S. Lamb, Noel H. Wright, Nathan R. Hoyle, John Mortin. 3 Subjects - James Stone, Fred Rothwell. 2 Subjects - Malcolm Grindrod, Alan Davis, Alan D. Owen, Alan Russell, David Wilson. 1 Subject - Gordon H. Mills.
2 Additional Subjects - Jean Dyson, Melvyn Ratcliff. 1 Additional Subject - Vivien Brooks, Helen M. Mulholland, Marion Street. Norma Timms.
6A Science: Sylvia R. Ogden (Physics, Chemistry), Gerald Carr (Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology), Jeffrey Ibbotson (Physics, Chemistry).
6 General: Marion Street (English Literature), Melvyn Ratcliff (English Literature).
Sylvia R. Ogden, Gerald Carr, Jeffrey Ibbotson.
PUPIL PROCEEDING TO UNIVERSITY
Gerald Carr (Manchester University).
PUPILS PROCEEDING TO TRAINING COLLEGES
Jean Dyson (Doncaster Training College), Marion Street (Nottinghamshire County Training College), Norma Timms (Thornbridge Hall Training College), Melvyn Ratcliff (York T.C. (after National Service)).
PUPIL PROCEEDING TO TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOR
HOTEL MANAGEMENT COURSE
Helen M. Mulholland.
Speech Day, 1956
On Tuesday, 27th November, 1956, we held our Annual Speech Day at Hill Stores.
The evening, with all its pomp and formality, is found to be very trying by the non-prize winners, but to the fortunate ones it is the crowning glory of a year of hard work.
Once again our Chairman was Alderman Hilton, who is the Chairman of the Governors, and, I might add, it is through Alderman Hilton and his persuasive powers that Greenhill Grammar School possesses many of the things that it has.
Our Guest of Honour was Dr. Mabel Tylecote, who is a leading historian and classical scholar. Dr. Tylecote is a very experienced public speaker as she showed the school that evening.
After the entrance of the School Governors, the school hymn, "Now thank we all our God," was sung. This was followed by the Chairman's Address and the Headmaster's Report. I think Mr. Higson should be complimented on the way he remembers everything, no matter how unimportant it may seem.
After two songs by the Girls' Choir we prepared to sit still for three quarters of an hour on seats which - well, I still have not quite recovered - and listen to something which we thought would bore us to tears. Our ideas were shattered, for Dr. Tylecote proved herself to be the school-child's friend. Her speech was neither too serious nor too light, but it struck the happy medium. She told us that if we really wanted to reach the top we would do so, because nothing would be able to hold us back.
After two more songs, this time by the Boys' Choir, Dr. Tylecote presented the prizes, trophies, special awards, and also, the final triumph after five years in a Grammar School, the General Certificate of Education to some fifty-six boys and girls.
This was followed by two more songs, and it is a cause of some amusement that the Girls' Choir, during this performance, gained the help of two members of the male sex.
The Head Girl, Joan Scholefield, proposed the vote of thanks to Dr. Tylecote, and presented her, on behalf of the school, with a beautiful silver propelling pencil. The Head Boy, Robert Millward, proposed the vote of thanks to the Chairman of the Governors.