Pyrford School 1960s

A Memory of Pyrford.

Adrian, first my apologies for such a belated response to your fond memory but in my defence, I only came across it recently whilst searching for photos of the school.
I too remember a Mrs.McDermott but only have a vague recollection of Mr.Cowie, in fact the only tangible evidence of his existence for me is his signature on my 'swimming certificate' for 25 yds breastroke in 1967. Instruction was provided by the lovely Mrs.Kindred & subsequent attainments were ratified by his successor Mrs.Davey, who I do remember several audiences with for various misdemeanors.
My first teacher was Mrs.Palmer, who coincidentally lived opposite me in Hare Hill Close and my last was Mr. Woodcock (1970). I do not recall the names of all the teachers in between but in my penultimate year there was Mr.Hocking who always wore a suit. However, the teacher I remember most fondly was Miss Emery, she was very kind and her teaching was quite serene.
I do not recall Pyrford being a stringent academic hotbed and the parrot-fashion teaching of one's times tables, whilst tuneful was not to my taste, particularly when a teacher singled you out to compute some random extract. There was an attempt to improve handwriting via instruction on Italics but this seemed doomed & ambitious, since you would probably be required to have extensive knowledge of hieroglyphics to read the average boys scrawl.
I could continue to wax lyrical vis-a-vis the school etc but instead will echo the sentiments of others & simply say it was very carefree time, children were afforded a lot of freedom to explore, for example, the fields at the back of the Rowley Bristow & Lee's Farm before they were consumed by developers.
Peter Williams


Added 24 May 2019

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