5.+1976+-+1995

Nicole Edwards 1993-2000

Reception: Mrs Risburough: I remember I cried because red was my favourite colour and I wasn't in red group :( Year1: Mrs Newman: I can remember before the easter half term we made egg baskets and left them over the holiday for the easter bunny, then when we came back we found some mini eggs in our baskets and we were so excited because we thought the easter bunny had delivered them. Year2: Miss Ball: I can remember after we had done really well in our class play, Miss Ball gave us a treat of apple and honey Year 3: Mr White: Another school trip I think it was to somewhere in Poole, and it was about an alien called astra and a waste monster who was trying to destroy the planet by not recycling Year 4: Mrs Bailey: Our room was at the end of the studio and Mrs Darragh was our ta. Mrs Bailey had used a friendly trap as she was convinced that there was a mouse in the room. We came in one morning and the mouse had been caught in the trap, so Mrs Bailey took us all out on the field to let the mouse go and as she did it hopped all over our feet. Year 5: Mr Hull: One memory from Mr Hull's class was when we were doing a class play of the evacuees and I was the main character Year 6: Mrs Meech: Going to Leeson House was the highlight of Year 6, after the orienteering we had a massive game of football on the field

Jason Hockley 1983-1987

- Although I believe I attended something at the school beforehand (Reception maybe?) the first teacher I can remember was when I started Year 1, with Miss Julia Hamilton. I remember my first day nerves and the benches and coat hooks in the corridor outside the classroom. I think this would have been in 1983 or 1984. - Year 2 I spent with Miss Ball, and I inexplicably remember doing some sort of project on the Care Bears. This served me well in later life, helping me to win a quiz on a cruise ship at the age of 32 by naming 6 of the 10 Care Bears. - Then there's a jump in my memories to a class that in my memory was a mix of Year 4 and Year 5 pupils, taught by Mr Gillis. I remember him being a giant of a man who instilled an interest in learning in me and set occasional puzzles to test the class. I have a memory of very proudly accepting an apple as a prize after deciphering a code he wrote on the blackboard (text written backwards, I think) and following the instructions to put my hands on my head. - Somewhere in amongst this I vaguely recall playing a drunken Trojan warrior in a school play, and a solo guitar performance of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to the school when the two people who were supposed to be playing alongside me fell ill at the last moment. - I left the school in 1987 when my family moved to Belgium. We expected it to only be for 6 months for a work contract for my mother, and I didn't realise I was saying goodbye to friends quite so finally, as it turned into 9 years before I returned to the UK for university.