I Was A Junior 1963/64
A Memory of Horley.
I attended the junior part of the school (Form 1) 1963-64 at the age of 5. My name was Felicity Hayton. My teacher was Miss Coulter who I think was Australian. My mother taught Biology In the senior school for that year, and my younger sister Jackie attended Kindergarten. Her teacher was Miss Smith; and Miss Smalley played the piano for our assembly, and “music and movement” classes.
I feel I had a good education there, learning multiplication tables up to 12x, and Italic writing at the tender age of 5! It was tough!
A long story but I only attended on Tuesdays and Fridays so I didn’t really make any friends. Names I remember are: Alison Guthrie, Alison Chell, Stephanie ? (one of 2 identical twins), Mary Winter, Katherine Jardine, Judy King, Linda Barncycle.
In my sister’s class was Sally Avery.
I need to find my photos of the school, the grounds, the teachers, and Mr Adams the caretaker/gardener!
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Miss Edwards taught me English. When our daughters went to their senior school I told that she was one of the best English teachers in the country!
I wish we had been taught more about the history of the school. All our houses were named after feminists of their day. I was in Anderson, named after Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, one of the first women doctors. Kingsley was, of course, named after Charles Kingsley's sister.
I still have three good friends from that era, Valerie Little, Susan Grant and Julia Crick.
We meet when we can although Val lives in New York, Sue in Bath and Julia in West Sussex. I live in East Sussex.
I went to Kingsley 1967 / 1977 ish when we amalgamated with st Agnes St Michael my name was Hilary Mends and i am currently on holiday with Julie Nottingham nee Gamblen and still in constant contact with Rachel was Knowles . Julie is trying to sign up as i write .
We have been made aware of a post by Pat Scott / Jean Scott . Jean was in our class i think Pat was in class below us .
Often thought of Jean just would like her to know if anybody reads this
Just thought i would say that after reading last letter it is lovely how life time friendships have been started from our school. Julie has the film somewhere just needs to be converted to modern tech
Kind Regards
Hilary Green