| DEERING SECONDARY SCHOOL |
| MEMORIES ... Page 1 |
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| School Socials - wonderful events!! I remember feeling wonderful when I won a huge hamper at an Easter school social - you had to guess the value of the contents of the hamper and I guessed to within 1/2d - everyone thought that because I could handle maths that I had worked it out, ( and I let them think that ) but in all honesty - I guessed! Was just lucky! School Sports Day ... I remember Denise Shaw being our fastest runner - boy could she move! Susan Goode |
| Mr Bowmar`s Metalwork Class Mr Bowmar was keen on using raw materials. One day I remember that all the school were instructed to collect , wash and save our used aluminium `milk bottle tops`. When a large amount were collected, ( which seemed to take forever ! ) these were then melted down in the school`s furnace and the resulting molten liquid aluminium was sand casted into the mild steel blades of our screwdrivers that we had made, Once cooled the aluminium handles were then `knurled` on the school`s lathe`s. Mick Harvey |
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| School Socials Fond memories of the friday night school social evenings, dancing to all the sixties music, my favourite one which reminds me of school was, " I think of you " by The Mersey Beats. Remember getting out of the girls changing rooms and running straight out on to the field at the back of school for sports br r r r r. Playing leapfrog in the playground by the hall with Diane Humpfries and Nesta Robins. Picking a `scrap` with Susan Goode after school and Jake Preston caught me. Christine Dixon |
| A memory I only spent just over a term at Deering before we left the Meadows to live in Bilborough. I remember the first term and the floods of that 1960/61 winter when for at least one day we couldn`t go to school. It also put an end to games as the football pitch was flooded. I managed to fall off my bike and got soaked, milked the consequences for all they were worth and had a week off school. I remember going to Wilford Church for the Christmas service - a somewhat unique experience and probably only the second time I had been in church! I always felt disappointed that they changed the name of Deering ( now for the 4th time ) as it takes away the sense of belonging that you could share with the pupils that followed. However, the powers that be never learn - when I moved I went to Glaisdale and its name has changed this year! Why won`t they learn how important our own history is to us? Tony Binder |
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| Mrs Gower`s Needlework Class - v - Mrs Steele`s Cookery Class I remember clearly one incident in the needlework class run by Mrs Gower. The first term all us girls had to make our school apron in our "house" colours, mine was Newstead House, so my pinnie was yellow gingham. I sat next to Susan Ogle in needlework, I vividly remember Sue was always talking throughout the entire lesson and never concentrating on needlework. This lesson she talked so much she machined across her apron the wrong way ruining it, hence we nicknamed her "clicker ogle". I might add it took me 2 years to do mine and then it was wrong, so I duly gave up needlework and went into Mrs Steele`s cookery class, Christine Dixon |
| The Funeral of little Vole ( Mr Robinson`s Woodwork Class ) I can remember the day that we found a dead Vole in the boys playground just outside the Woodwork classroom. It was shown to Mr Robinson our Woodwork teacher, who then decided to make a classwork topic detailing the plans to construct a small wooden coffin. This we then did and the following day we then conducted a very sad funeral service with said deceased Vole sealed up in it`s small wooden coffin. The Vole was buried just outside the school gates R.I.P little Vole. Mick Harvey |
| Needlework Class I remember going to needlework class with Mrs Gower, how i hated sewing, we used to look at the boats on trent instead of sewing. Nesta Robins. |
| Harvest Festival I can remember the Harvest Festival at Deering, after the service in the Hall, we were told to box up all the groceries etc and tins and take them to the old people down Meadows. St Georges Church supplied Jake with the list of recipients. Never forget their faces as we gave them free food! Jacqueline Brett |
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