Thanks for all the memories people! I had forgotten how much it really was a special place to be taught: we were very lucky. I was there from the later 70s to 81, and looking back I have more memories from TCMS than any other school I went to. Some of them that have stayed with me include the following: 1) David Majors right arm and how he could hit anyone, at will, with chalk with it at 30 paces. 2) Watching Tony Simpson turn his eyelids inside out and thinking Why?. 3) Not understanding the sadistic nature of Mr Bryan and David Major at the end of P.E. when they used to make us run around the gym while they took pot shots at us with a football. David Romeo was always the quickest runner and always was last to get hit: you guys really didnt spare the horses at the end did you! 4) Mr Frank Bartram stopping morning register to read us out a note he had been given by a student (who shall remain nameless) as an education into how NOT to lie, that read thus: Dear Mr. Bartram, Please can you let (name removed) eat cough sweets in class today because they have a sore throat. Signed My mum. 5) Me and Mark Willoughby, during the winter of discontent, organising a 2nd year school strike to protest at how we did all the work, but the teachers got paid. On the said day only me and Mark stood at the gates while all the strikebreakers went in (we didnt do a good job of drumming up much support!). We got rumbled of course but something told me even then that Mr Barton had a gleam in his eye when he obviously reluctantly reprimanded us. The whole four years I really can say I felt part of the community that was the school, and I think we can safely say that that has to be down to the excellent work, commitment and enthusiasm for teaching us of all of you, the teachers, so thanks Mr Major, Miss Thompson, Mr Tomson, Mr Watts, Mr Bryan, Mr Bartram, Mr Amos, Mr Barton and more that I can see the faces of but cannot put names to. The kids you taught did alright!
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:55:58 +0000
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