Foxhill Junior School 60's/70's

[John Fox]

David Pagdin ran the post office on Foxhill Rd and Kath Pagdin taught at Foxhill as you mentioned. I always remembered her as a very good and kind/caring teacher. You must have been pretty badly behaved if you drove her to slap you, she was always very tolerant with our class in the late 70's/80's.

[John Fox]

A great teacher of Foxhill school was Mr Riley who took an interest in what interested you as a student and adapted his teaching to fit. This was different in those days which was still pretty much chalk and talk style rules the day.

 

Mr Riley had a passion for reading poetry and he and I swapped a couple of books (mine was one of my mums that I borrowed from her). He could hold the classes attention 100% with his recitals. I can remember a classic poem he read to us which has stuck with me over the last 30+ years;

 

Cargoes by John Masefield

 

QUINQUIREME of Nineveh from distant Ophir,

Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,

With a cargo of ivory,

And apes and peacocks,

Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

 

Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus,

Dipping through the Tropics by the palm-green shores,

With a cargo of diamonds,

Emeralds, amethysts,

Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores.

 

Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke-stack,

Butting through the Channel in the mad March days,

With a cargo of Tyne coal,

Road-rails, pig-lead,

Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays.

Edited March 6, 2012 by John Fox

[jayaa]

I went to Foxhill from 75 to 83 , my mum still has all my old school pics and reports . Mr Holding was the head and i remember Mr Carr and Mrs Baines being my favourite teachers. I also remember a Mrs Shaw and a Ms Robinson.

One of my main memories is helping to paint the big dinosaur picture that used to be on the bottom playground

[shane39]

The teachers i remember are, Mr youle, Mrs Balls, Mrs Parkin (my teacher when I left in 1971) Mr Mawson, the head was Mr Parkin

he was very strict as i recall.

Some of the pupils in my class were: Elaine Holmes, Pamela Bennet, Ian Worth, Peter Angus, Michelle Sampson, Elaine Bottom, Michelle Bowns, Debra Bowler, to name a few.

 

Did you live on Foxhill,? I lived on Foxhill Ave in the maisonettes.

 

I lived on the maisonettes foxhill ave number 84. We moved up the road to edgewell place(been knocked down now) Mid 70s. I'm shane woods! my brothers n sisters are...mandy,julian,adele,heath,clinton and todd. My dad is keith,and mum andrea.

I knocked about with paul sampson(michelles brother)

Went to foxhill school then Yewlands.

My teachers at foxhill were..

miss bowie(bitch) once dealt me 9 wacks with her ballet slipper.

Mr youle (sadist b-----d) loved his long cane.

Mr carr decent bloke who used a short stout stick to punish.

Mr riley..great bloke,and the only one who actually made the slipper a treat to behold/A big white plimsoll,he would line us all up at the end of the day,and sing and wack as he worked his way down the line.

 

Great memories.........

[foxyboy]

The teachers i remember are, Mr youle, Mrs Balls, Mrs Parkin (my teacher when I left in 1971) Mr Mawson, the head was Mr Parkin

he was very strict as i recall.

Some of the pupils in my class were: Elaine Holmes, Pamela Bennet, Ian Worth, Peter Angus, Michelle Sampson, Elaine Bottom, Michelle Bowns, Debra Bowler, to name a few.

 

Did you live on Foxhill,? I lived on Foxhill Ave in the maisonettes.

 

Bringing back some great memories!

[noodles1961]

My aunty Joyce & Len Hudson lived up Foxhill way they had about 5 children that might have gone to Foxhill Junior School

[kensimmo]

I went when it was the old prefabs until the new school was built in 1970,

It was fantastic going into a brand new school, there was a zig zag path down to it and the class rooms were seperated by blackboards, we had quiet rooms where we sat on these funny kind of cube things,

 

anyone else on here go to Foxhill Juniors ?

 

Yes, My name is Mark Simmonite I'm now 61 years old. Must have been there when you was.

[tonychap]

omg how many of those names do i know, great memories

On 30/10/2008 at 18:13, tracyc said:

I went to Foxhill late 60's early 70's, the teachers i remember: Mr Parkin, Mr Youle, Miss Bowie, Mrs Jones, Mrs Brown, Mrs Robinson, Mr Morson, Mrs Whitacker, Mrs Whitbread, Mrs Price, Mrs Knights, Mr Reville

Pupils i remember: dianna Lees, tracey oates, theresa gaffeney, joanne knights, anna hodgson, suzanne bradley, sally anne weston, valerie chambers, debra cooper, beverley baxter, sharon tether, joanne doane, carron pearson, lynne owen, maria jess, karen smith, yvette crocker, june bottom, lynne sharpe, julie cartledge, julie gregory, michelle cave, christine dunkley, garry travis, dean edley, chris samson, barry pollard, chris McCale, carl varley, peter moore, gary kemp, jonathan womack, andrew grocock, john taylor, peter winstanley, peter kitson, john nicolson, anthony chapman, jamie young, stephen naylor, jonathan palmer (i remember he frequently stuck rubbers up his nose, if he was in Mr Revilles class he used to throw the black board wiper at him)

if you can think of anyone else please add to the list.

i can't believe i can actually remember this many, it's 35+ years ago, just hope someone can remembers me. LOL.

hi anthony chapman here how many of those names do i know ....... loads lol