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I remember my first teacher, Mrs. Wild. She always wore long skirts! Can't remember much about the work we did, except she taught, or tried to teach, us how to tie shoelaces. I never did get the hang of it, and so formed my own way which I kept until I was fourteen. I remember it well! It was a Sunday afternoon, Mum was cooking dinner, and I suddenly asked her if she thought it was about time she taught me how to tie my laces properly! She was shocked that I didn't know the right way, and so showed me it. Unlike when I was five years old, I soon got the hang of it! :)
I remember doing jigsaws with Mrs. Wild. I was so good at them, that she made me do them face down!! Then there was my Mathematical ability. I look back and wonder how she coped with me! I somehow managed to get everything wrong as I somehow managed to twist my answers so that no became yes, and yes became no! She managed to sort me out in good time, though :)
Mrs. Rolfe was my next teacher, and what a shock she was to the system! Can't remember a thing about being in her class, except she had to teach us about full stops as I started to put them all over my work!! I also remember her telling me to say , "Excuse me" because I sneezed or something. I was just about to say it anyway, so her telling me to really annoyed me! (Some things never change!!! )
Mrs. Jones was the teacher of class 2 (you started in class 4 and went down in case you wondered!). I think she was quite strict, but am not sure. All I remember is seeing our work up on the long corridor outside her room!!!
Mr. Davies was a fairly new teacher when I reached his class. He was the head, and must have started at West Row when I was in Class 3. (I have a weird and bizarre memory for remembering such things as looking at him while sitting in my chair in Mrs. Rolfe's class!!) I had great fun in his class! Memories include doing our version of the Bayeaux tapestry and never being able to remember if we'd had dinner or not as we worked on it!! I also remember writing two (what were at the time) novels, and sitting next to Vicky Hopson! Whenever Vicky needed a spelling, she'd ask me for it, and I always gave it to her backwards!! Took her quite a while to realise how I was teasing her like this!!! :))
Other memories from West Row include playing a sleeping person at break as I was always a bit tired; playing with Kelly and Imelda, the twins, by the old caravan; drawing the most excellent trees (- I never drew lollipop trees, you have to understand!); and the floods which often occurred by the Horse Chestnut tree in the corner of the playground! I also still have the Pocket Oxford English Dictionary which we were on given when we left. Those were the days! :)
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