Form 2B Report
There are sixteen girls and fourteen boys in our form. Our Form Master is Mr. Fryer, who also takes us for English. The Form Captains are James Hickling and Christine Snowdon.Some of the boys of 2B are members of sports teams. John Barlow is an enthusiastic cross-country runner. This enthusiasm is also shared by James Hickling and Jack Minton. We are well represented on the school swimming team by Jack Minton, Peter Brown and Frank Higgins. Peter Brown and Frank Higgins also are members of the Oldham Swimming Team. The sports mostly supported by 2B boys are cricket, soccer and rugby (League of course !).The girls have not yet gained any honours in the sporting field, but we are hopeful for the future. The girls' most popular sports appear to be netball and rounders.Some of 2B's pupils are members of various societies. Science seems to be the most popular subject, and Clifford Rowbottom is the jester of the form. Altogether 2B is a contented class.CHRISTINE SNOWDON.
Form 2G Report
Our Form, 2G, consists of girls taken from the three forms of last year. We reside in Room 17 which serves as the music room. Miss Parker has the misfortune to be our form mistress, and also has the difficult task of instructing us in the arts of French. However, she seems to be bearing up well under this added strain.
Several of the class are members of the many societies which belong to the school. Two girls from our form have entered for and have been successful in gaining A.S.A. swimming medals. This term our sporting activities have been limited owing to the absence of a gym. mistress, thus leaving us rather stiff-jointed.
An item of interest occurred when a team of actors arrived and gave the lower school an enjoyable afternoon. On another occasion a lady from Dr. Barnardo's gave us a talk on her work. This also interested many of us. Speech-day looms ahead, and our combined efforts are in the choir and other activities concerned with the great day.
J. TAYLOR.
L. BUCKLEY.
M. WILD.
Form 3A Report
3A form room contains twenty-nine assorted specimens. Among them we have a budding scientist, who is slightly "Rusty," "Spike," the mathematician, plus one cheerful Charlie namely "The Laughing Cavalier." We inhabit cell No. 8, which place of residence is known as "The Teacher's Nightmare." We suffer under Miss "Maths" Turner, Madame Kuler, Herr Martin or Magister Fryer. We partake of many hobbies such as collecting butterflies, gardening, athletics (cross-country running), writing short stories, needlework and playing truant and various others not to be mentioned.
J.J., H.G., E.J., J.L.
Form 3B Report
As we open the big bay windows which line one wall of our prison, twenty-one pairs of tired eyes gaze out on the glorious scene of Oldham, in one corner the flour mill while all the rest of our view is taken up by the gas works. But a step behind us tells us that our warden (Mr. Hollos) is here. He takes out his big whip, and shepherds us to our places.
We have various types of prisoners in our den. The sporting types are Edna Lees and Sylvia Merritt who are on the netball team, while Joan Minton and David Wilson (Willy) contribute to the swimming team. Then the "clonk, clonk" of football boots is heard as B. Clarkson (Clarky) and I. Pearson, alias Fodders, sling their boots round their necks as they leave the jail house for a welcome game of football.
We have lost some memories of Form 2B but are honoured to have the blanks filled up by Christine "Mary" Smith, Merle Clough, Irene Orchard and Mervyn Whitehead.
"On our desks we could do with cushions of foam,
But that's all for now from Edna and Joan."