Memories: …Now I am 6 I am as clever as clever! PART ONE.
I was 5, going on 6 by the time I started my 2nd Primary School.
There were 2 infant classes and 3 junior classes.
My teacher was lovely and the class was light and airy. We had tables instead of desks and there were interesting things around the classroom.
We still had the same mile walk to get to the main road and then we would catch a National bus for a couple of miles. It would drop us at a junction, where we would catch the school coach. The National bus was notoriously inconsistent and we could be standing for ages waiting for the coach, or we would miss it. If we were running a bit late ourselves, Dad would sometimes take us down to the bottom of the Lane in the Land-Rover. One day, we arrived to discover the National bus had already gone, so Dad drove us to the coach stop, only to see it pull away as we were approaching. Much to all our embarrassment, Dad chased the coach hooting his horn wildly until the bus driver responded and stopped at the next scheduled stop. We all clambered aboard amongst much discussion from the other children!
The school did have a school uniform, but very few of us wore it. However, I did get a second-hand green blazer from someone, with the school emblem on and the best bit of all was that it had a secret zip pocket, on the inside left of the jacket. In it I kept a shiny thru’ penny bit, a little pink shell and a conker. 😊
Mum had given me a love of literature, but at this school my world was opened up to so many different types of books and I soaked them up eagerly. It was here that I first came across Dr. Seuss. I liked, “A fly went by,” “The King, the Mice and the Cheese” and my favourite, “Green eggs and ham.” I would read them again and again and loved the humour and rhyme. The Blackberry Farm books were also much-loved, as was Beatrix Potter… particularly, “Peter Rabbit.”.
My school report mentions my love of reading. 😊