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This message was updated on 3/15/2008 3:28:43 AM by suzard

 Heanor Grammar School
replied on: 3/15/2008 3:27:35 AM
from "Visions of Boyhood"
A.C.Stevenson Ashmore
HEANOR TECH
The new secondary school building in Mundy St had its official opening ceremony during my first term in 1912. Proudly wearing my new school cap with the black and amber colours, I presented myself on the first day of term.The purchase of the cap from Charles Rowell, market Place, had been deferred until late on the previous saturday afternoon, greatly to my anxiety. I was greatly impressed-awed- by the whole atmospere. I hastened to the cloakroom to change my boots for the gym slippers , which were obligatory,mymother had been informed."I hope you are not going to run us into a lot more expense ", she told me when she heard about the black apron for science and the white apron for woodwork.
The first surprise for me, coming from a Boys school, was the sight of girls moving along the corridors...Every girl wore the uniform gymnasuim slip and had her hair in long pigtails. It also came as a surprise that in some classes girls sat side by side with boys. I did not know then that i was participating in one of the first experiments in co education in the country.To the complete success of that experiment I can testify on the basis of my five and a half years in the school.
In the form Room it was exciting to discover that each pupil has his own desk in which he could lock away the numerous books -exercise and text-that were handed out by members of the staff. For new pupils the sight of masters and Mistresses in academic gowns was somewhat awe inspiring.....
The school had a magnificent morale, which was built on planned activities, both inside and outside the classroom. The concept of discipline was based on a general acceptance of routine and of response to the tone set by the staff and the older pupils, it was above all a happy school where the teaching was in the hands of devoted and highly skilled people.

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