Thrown Down The Bank

I must have gone there first in 1954 since we had to pass the 11+ Exam as it was called. My name then was Jones ( !! Not surprising!!). My brother Peter was 4 years ahead of me and my father ( Merlin Jones) taught physics there for many years, but left to become headmaster of the Bassaleg primary school in about 1952. I was there until the end of upper 6th when I went to Uni in Exeter. Worked in Plymouth, married and lived in Dublin, then moved to Australia where I still live in retirement ( from a variety of careers mostly involving education) . I remember the teachers already mentioned, and through my father had personal connections with most of them. In my class I remember Hilary James, Sue Martin, Leila Mellish, Marilyn Thomas ( who sang a wonderful duet with Jillian ? ? called Panis Angelicus.) I still think of them each time I hear it. Boys I remember were Clive ??, Nigel Pearce, Gordon Maslen, Philip Richards. I was a mad hockey player with scarred shins to prove it and was not happy when the new PE teacher tried to get us to play netball. Miss Wainwaring taught me A level English and “ Ducky” Meara geography, which has remained my favourite subject to this day. I even taught it myself in an Australian school.