Preston Candover Primary School
This was the year I left PC school to go to High School. I have immensely fond memories of school life here and the wonderful teachers, Mrs Cosier, Mrs Brady and Head Teacher Mrs Bruce. Lining up outside every morning for team games before school. doubtless to wake us up! The whole school chanting our times tables in unison which I think should be mandatory today in all primaries. It works. Singing those glorious old hymns in morning assembly. Having art lessons outside in the sun. Going on nature rambles and nature study competitions (mine was the coot and the horse chestnut tree for which I won a medal). Scottish and country dancing, rounders, tennis and plays performed in the village hall opposite for our parents. School dinners, umm, well they were certainly nutritious with lovely puddings (except for sago, ugh). When parents today talk of over-crowding in classrooms, I have an instant picture of sitting squashed up together on benches in the infants room. If you sat by that huge old boiler-tyoe fire you got your legs scorched but if you sat further away, you froze. Still, we were well taught and I can still see the frieze running around the wall depicting a for apple, b for bat etc. I don't remember so much about the village apart from the Canterton Stores as I lived at Brown Candover. My maiden name is Pearson, should anyone remember the family.
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RE: RE: Preston Candover Primary School
Well, they say they are the best years of your life. I was one of 6 living up Stenbury Drive with my parents, everyone knew everyone any woe betide you if you did something wrong, your parents would know before you got home. School at Preston Candover (PC) was another thing, teachers like Mrs Roberts, Mrs Slater - fantastic needlework teacher she was and used to put magic iodine on your graze if you fell in the playground, Mrs Pearson from Bradley (I think), she was a wizz at mental maths, you had to know your times tables with her and there was no messing around, she was real old school, and Mr Frampton, and not forgetting the headteacher Mr Williams, he was a wonderful man, always had his cine camera out if anything was going on or you were away on a school trip. Then the important bit, school dinners served by Mrs Hammond (Aunty Ruby to me) and Mrs Southern (Peggy), I lived in between these two ladies. Every day there was no processed stuff, it was all home-cooked, the dinners were fantastic, I am lucky to have some of the old recipies. Oh, there were two more, Mrs Smeeth and Mrs Cool, who checked if you had clean hands before you could go into dinner - if not you got sent to wash them. We all went to school here. My dad went to the old school and lived in the old vicarage attic with my mum when they first got married.
Comment from Sue Sammut(Harman) on Wednesday, 28th July 2010.