Our local primary school got a good OFSTED report this month!
Delighted to hear - as reported in Levelling Langport Magazine - that Huish Episcopi Primary School got a 'good' report from OFSTED this season.
Quite right too, but in true Carry On Langport fashion, let's look at a school report from 1979, back when OFSTED didn't exist and it was purely called The Department for Education.
Here is the only surviving document we could find - it appears to be a report on the teachers' performance...
Mrs Close - running Class R brilliantly, even with dodgy teaching assistants like Barbara Mills
Mrs Derham - never sure if it was Durham or Derham - either way - pupils loved her - especially during 'Give me oil in my lamp' in assemblies.
Mrs Cox - what a story-teller - made us all feel special - didn't like it when she was ill though and Mrs MacNeil took over - and hit us with her wedding rings.
Mr Scaveil - both pupils and parents have no idea exactly how to spell his name - but he threw a good slipper.
Miss Barkway - rather a good replacement for Mr Scaveil (was that how you spelt it?)in the mid-70s. Not quite appropriate to call anyone who held their pencil in 'that' hand a "left-handed looney" but still acceptable.
Mr Prewett - Freddie Mercury award for 'over-sized 1970s moustache' but we loved him - even though most Langporters got "a page!" just for talking in between his spelling tests
Finally - Mr Slowly - or Sloughly? The OFSTED award for having a sneaky smoke in his office while being the best teacher to prepare Langporters for 'the big school'
End of report.
Extra information: pupils in the 70s & 80s were also allowed to play conkers and skid around on the playground if there was a frost in the morning.
Extra information: pupils in the 70s & 80s were also allowed to play conkers and skid around on the playground if there was a frost in the morning.
(C) DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 1980
Where did the years go eh? - and when did we all become so wet?
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