Here is the next part of the 1966 booklet produced on Les Quennevais School. If anyone knows the students named in the photos, I'd love to have memories of them for the next post.
Since posting the last piece, I've had various comments. It should be noted that the cane was also used at other schools, including the private schools, and I was clipped round the ears at my school in the 1970s with two rulers (one on each ear, ouch!) by my geography teacher, A.B. Harris, for day dreaming. So in context, the descriptions of the school below are not widely out from the rather harsher times of the 1960s.
Sue wrote: Love this- I was there in 1966 - aka Sue Waigh.
Kim wrote:
1966. The year before I started school there. It was a definitely a school in its early stages and you had to learn to stand on your own to feet. A time when you could either receive the stick across the knuckles or across the backside and a kick up the backside by the P.E teacher would motivate you in the cross country. But that was life in those days. You were there to learn . It was very much a different era to grow up in. Not just for the pupils but for the teachers also who were doing their best and treating us as they felt fit. Having a french teacher come up behind you and lift you out your chair by your ears certainly got your attention as did the blackboard rubber flying your way. But did I miss that school, well , they say the school days were the best days of your life. They probably were. Apart from educate you it also taught you to stand up on your own two feet.
Sue wrote:
I think more in Les Quennevais school when I was there in the 70's it was unruly and teachers could not control the class. Students were traumatised and pushed down the stairs. The school took the kids in that other schools rejected as in those days there weren't many secondary schools in Jersey.
Les Quennevais School 1966 - Part 4
Since posting the last piece, I've had various comments. It should be noted that the cane was also used at other schools, including the private schools, and I was clipped round the ears at my school in the 1970s with two rulers (one on each ear, ouch!) by my geography teacher, A.B. Harris, for day dreaming. So in context, the descriptions of the school below are not widely out from the rather harsher times of the 1960s.
Sue wrote: Love this- I was there in 1966 - aka Sue Waigh.
Kim wrote:
1966. The year before I started school there. It was a definitely a school in its early stages and you had to learn to stand on your own to feet. A time when you could either receive the stick across the knuckles or across the backside and a kick up the backside by the P.E teacher would motivate you in the cross country. But that was life in those days. You were there to learn . It was very much a different era to grow up in. Not just for the pupils but for the teachers also who were doing their best and treating us as they felt fit. Having a french teacher come up behind you and lift you out your chair by your ears certainly got your attention as did the blackboard rubber flying your way. But did I miss that school, well , they say the school days were the best days of your life. They probably were. Apart from educate you it also taught you to stand up on your own two feet.
Sue wrote:
I think more in Les Quennevais school when I was there in the 70's it was unruly and teachers could not control the class. Students were traumatised and pushed down the stairs. The school took the kids in that other schools rejected as in those days there weren't many secondary schools in Jersey.
Les Quennevais School 1966 - Part 4
Emile Goaziou at the forge.
Clive Coutanche at the lathe.
Leslie Rio welding.
Sir John Newsom watches boys at work on Quiver, our second Gnome class sailing dinghy.
The first of these, Quail, is on the left. Both were built by boys under the direction of Mr. Jones.
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