Old Friends "Memories"
The following posts are a compilation of snippets from the Old Friends website from past students beginning in the 1940s through to the present day. These are just a few of the many memories posted on the site that i found the most interesting. One theme that runs through all the memories found online is the people. The classmates, teachers, principals of SPS that made our years at school so memorable time.
1940s
Memories of teachers, Tony Breen, Betty Amess, Mrs Darling and Mr Taylor(Head).
The
I started in the old Fenton Street Block with Mrs Chadwick. Mrs Turnbull, Miss Brogden(who I later taught with) and Miss Birkett were the other Junior schoolteachers. Mrs Anderson and Mrs McCullogh then Bill Curtain. The
Started at Kindy next to the old
Again only there a short time,riding to school up Regan St on a threewheeler,getting the strap for rubbing out with my finger,the Queens corronation,school fancy dress ball,hands knees and bumpsadaisy,Jack and the beanstalk,hail storm,but cannot remember any names.
P2: A teacher I can't remember. (Just standing in the corridor because I couldn't tell the time her way….
Stuffing the goldfish full of bread crumbs
Remember lining up for assembly outside the main office and reciting the Lords Prayer.
I got caught by Fred Cutler sliding down the Staffroom bannister rail. He was not a happy chappy and neither was I !
Just loved the milk every day,especially if it had been in the sun for a few hours, in those wee bottles. And the first years, always had an lay down in the afternoon, guess those days are long gone.!!!!
Being scared of Mrs Shannon & Mrs Stringer. Almost a nervous wreck and I was only just starting my schooling. It all went to the pack after that.
Enjoyed all the sports we competed in and the ever-lasting games of cricket in the summer and endless games of rugby in the winter. Trecking down to the baths for swimming. Getting my visit kiss. Wonderful years I will say now but at the time I spent class time staring out the window wondering when it was all going to end.
I remember sitting in class dreading that I might be the next one called up to go to the "murder house" (dental clinic) Also the trips to "Manual" at Eltham, and that poor lady who taught us cooking and sewing - everyone gave her such a hard time!
I was glad we moved as I was due to get Miss(or Mrs) Bristow and my brother and sister use to tell me how she would shake you till your teeth rattled if you didn't know something. I missed
The good old days when kids were kids and teachers could strap.Played rugby and soccer for the school and love it. I can still remember some of my teachers names which were Miss Winter, Mr Brein, Mr O'Brian, Mr Craddock, Mrs cardiff,Mr Taylor to name just a few. Had a lot of good friends and a lot of good times.Hope to catch up with a few one day as well.
I started in Miss Cross's class, and had Mrs Henry and Mr Taylor as well. Mr Dalgety used to play the guitar at assembly and would walk around on duty twirling his whistle on a string around his finger.
Started
Jan & I being chased by a pig at the Te Wera campsite. Bullrush at lunchtime. Mrs Davies, Mr Keats (geez
Great school. I remember the huge playing fields, walking to school past all the Kowhai trees in the mornings, grass fights after the lawns had been cut, bull rush, rugby and hockey, lining up to march down to the swimming pools on swimming days, visiting the dental nurse.
Playing hand-ball in front of the school, 24 squres were about the biggest we played I think.
It was a long time ago but I do remember getting the strap for running in the corridor after the bell had gone, I was 6 or 7
Had some great time and got up to mischief. Helped put Mrs Jardines car in car park, who else helped. Behaved most of the time.
1980s
I remember having a class wedding breakfast with Miss Lithgow when Charles and Diana got married and having boat races in Mrs Spragg's swimming pool. Those were the days.
ah yes...these were the days GnR ruled the air waves and Hulk Hogan was cool..Mr McAllister was the best teacher I ever had @ SPS.
I was a right little cow who kept on getting in trouble, and i remember pushing Mr McAllister into the Swimming pool in front of the Form 1s and 2s
Oh what fun, Mr. McAllister, Mr. Coulton, Mrs. Oaks and Miss Kennedy and who can forget that Mr. Squires!
Ah yes good old Mr Squire! Thanx for being fair, firm and consistent!
Stratford Pretty cool school. I remember it was a time when you had the 2 to 3 level forts and stuff you could break you arm on, not the useless playground eqiupment they have this days. I always remember that the walk to and from school was and adventure in itself. My brother, our friends and I would go behind some buildings that were just off one of the main streets that back on to a bank that fell 15 or so metres to a creek. I also remember playing with to girls everyday for what seemed like years, on a trail of tires that had been embedded vertically in concrete. We played a train game of some type, but one day I got bored and asked if we could play something else and that was it. If the train game wasn't good enough for me then I wasn't good enough for them and I never played with them again. I also remember playing alot of games that had to do with secret agent teams and also games that mimicked some of the eighties tv shows e.g macgyver.
Who could forget our dear Mr Squire??? The only person to ever get away with waking me before 7am! But hey,
I remember being tripped up by Mrs Maxwell and her umbrella when I was 6.
I remember manual with Mrs Taunt. And the school production we did that went through the eras of music. Oh yes and Forest Lakes Camp and those awful running circuits every Friday with Mr McAlistair *shiver*.
… Was pretty naughty at school! Used to like going to manual in Eltham on the bus and singing songs from the "Back to School" movie!
as a university student, I cannot imagine how I got up before 9am every day for so many years
1990s
the 6 & 7 timestables songs from standards 3 & 4. still remember them from that now.
Well what can I say about this gem... four square face off in form 2 and Mr Squire-you rock!!!
i remember the old playground where on of my mates broke her arm wen we were little as and i remember them getting rid of it and building the new one thats there now (nowhere near as good as the old one) best school ive eva been to and the most fun i think ive had in my entire life if i could i would relive it all again for the rest of my life. wicked teachers every year as far as i can remember and the school camps were choice as. big thing i remember was wen i left and moved to taumarunui but the school let me go bak there to go on the form one camp in te wera.
Yea it was pretty gud, but i just sprinted home each day so i culd thrash nintendo!!! well it was gud tho +_+
If i had my way i would have spent all my school years here
… we had a snow day, that was awesome!!
Put me off being a primary school teacher with the boys in my class. Playing "sandwich" with the boys and chipping teeth!
This was a cool school, loved everything about it - some of the teachers were kinda gay and old skool thou but loved it...
well i do remeber alot of good memories the main one in my head at the mo is the two dragon ladies (aka mrs c and miss priest) i also remember miss gray as she was then and i remember being in room 2!! i remember the green netball team and our eagle rock proformance at the school production that was cool!!! also when we were on forest lakes and mrs c went through the metal detector at the beehive and the new bra she got set off the detector!!! i also remember miss lim, miss pomare, mrs coles and of course mrs Parkinson
I meet some great people had a awesome time and went on a great camp to
Had a really awesome class in 1995 - all 37 of us cramped in rm 19 prefab! Remember the
Winning the Ross Brown Shield in 1995 was awesome!
i also remember the pink panther slips that could win you a prize if you were good. Lol
I WAZ AT
2000 -
This school rocked! Had heapsa fun and made lotsa best friends for life! =)
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the yr 1970
my first year to started school for the first time. Knew no one and my sister was a few classes a head of me.
Stood in the hall way till i got taken to class. My yr class mates were Jeninfer moss, jane le grove, alison henry etc etc and we were mix with alison joe, jamie,darren kendal and etc, i think i was either made to sit on my own because i talk to much or i was sent to another classroom to finish my work. Seriously i dont think the teachers liked me very much, and when i head for the standards it kinda got worse Mrs Spragg will im sure she will remember me because i was the one she always picking on, tables all turn later on in years when she was due to have a baby and my mother was the midwife nurse at stratford Avon. All the girls in my class with there pretty little dresses and they designer clothing,and there hair in pigtails with the pretty ribbons.Then there was me! will i really didnt care what i looked like i was clean with my hand me downs, but i had friends and managed to get along with everyone. I had so many relation at school if you got into trouble it would get back to the parents, school dance, but the best was the camps at Te Wera, lots of fun. Manual was a joke, nobody listened and there was food being thrown on the roof. I hated sewing and never seem to get it right, Mrs Jardine form 1 and i swore if i had her for form 2 i would leave! but i ended up with Mr Gray, a much better teacher, but to fine out later on I was going to be taught by his wife in high school
I had some good times and I had times that i should of stayed home, but now over the years most of those i went to school with im finally catching up with them all now,The school has change a great lot since my days, my newphews and nieces have now all past through stratford primary. i remember micheal webb (a cousin) and alan webby use to find spiders behind the flaxs and when roger harwood shaved his eye brows.Years went by so fast but while at school it seem to never end and assembly you knew when you were in form 2 we had to stand at the back, through that last year you knew primary school was all over and you tryed to enjoy what was left of your primary days,
our teachers were getting us ready to venture out to meet new teachers more students a new school called high school.
With that thought we all started to realise we would be starting from the bottom again.
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