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Left Two years ago Barry Burke was the Head there... i left as they changed it to the Buisness and Enterprise School..... didnt get the chance to wear a blazer as the year i started was the year the introduced the Jumpers....

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Hi all,
Went to rhyddings 1980 - 1986.
The teachers were, Mr Thomson (red faced PE teacher), Ohharrgreaves maths teacher and houghton weaver, captain krem (nice pants), Dopey Roper, Mr snow, Mr Howarth, Slap head Parr, Paddy effernan, Miss Gordon (every schoolboys dream).
There was a mad woodwork teacher who threw lumps of wood about, what was he called, also what was the PE teacher called that died at the sport centre?

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the only pe teachers i recall were townsend and halliwell.. both pretty frightening but mrs halliwell did have a softside where as townsend were a hard nut to crack

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That must have been Cunningham

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laurel and hardy them too :D

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I went to Rhyddings 83-88, Miss Moore was the head & took our history class, dropped that subject as soon as I could. Can remember Mrs Ware & Mr Furley (the perv) from English, Mr Walkden & Duffy for Maths, Mr Chapples for French/German, Mr Hunt for RE (now locked up for fiddling with boys), Mrs Fogg/Cottam as form teacher & Home Ec was a prison officer & now working for social services getting teenage girls back to school after having sprogs. Mr Haworth for Human Biology, (& his brother was one of my teachers at Hippings). Mrs Townsend for PE (drove round in her car while we were getting corned beef legs in cross country!). Mrs Atkinson for commerce, Mr Downs for chemistry (v. bad BO!) 2 nervous breakdowns - Mr Best (Physics) & Mrs Foster (Home Ec)
My son now goes there, I was so surprised at how much it's changed - we used to have 1 room with a few basic computers in it and were never allowed in it, now there's at least one in every room and dedicated computer suites. No black boards anywhere (can we still say black boards as they are now white boards?!) Don't think there's many teachers left from my day, think Mrs Tipper is still there - she used to grab hold of us naughty girls who dared to wear earrings & make-up! Still found my way around although most of the classes have moved about into the new buildings.
The jumpers & polos change to the opposite colours in the 5th year and have also had to buy a training suit for PE which he hasn't worn once in 14 months! They seem to think us parents have money to burn!

What a trip down memory lane, my brain obviously isn't as frazzled as I thought!

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Found this picture on Friends Reunited - Class 1WR from 1983 - won't tell you which one was me!

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yes i went to Rhyddings from 1990-1995 what good years they were now i live in Germany any old names and i will get in touch.:eek:

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i was in here class as well i went 91-96

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i went to rhyddings from 88-93 my worst teacher was mr mcmanus or as we used to call him (crem) for his bad breath and brown suit i hated school in fact i was hardley ever there. we where the bad year as the school discos got band cause someone turned over miss moores car what a laugh

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You obviously missed all the English lessons!

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cor not arf

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I was there in 83, I would have been in the 3rd year, my form room was one of the music rooms in the east block(not the one at the front of the building)

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shame i would have had miss moore but she left just before i started i had mr burke aka flat face.

Les Newton was the soundest one of the lot, spot on teacher!!

Mr Duffy was the angry one of the lot, i remeber when i back chatted him and he started pushing me around the room into desks and walls then grabbing my ear and pulling me down to the head master, he had a belly and was a drunk he even had a fridge, microwave, bacon, grill in his storeroom and a bottle of water (cough vodka cough) in the desk.

Mr Craven wow the most boringestest teacher in the world he didn't even have a TV just reads books.

Mr young was a good laugh

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you must have been in the same yr as my uncle he left in 83