The following extract appeared in the “Woking News and Mail” in November 1960

 

WEST BYFLEET SECONDARY SCHOOL SPEECH DAY 1960

 

SCHOOL’S BIG PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

BUT PROBLEMS OF OVERCROWDING

 

 

                West Byfleet County Secondary School has big plans for the future, but also has problems caused by overcrowding, said the headmaster, Mr. F.W. Goodger, at the school’s speech day on Wednesday.  The school had grown in many ways he said and the teaching staff had done an excellent job despite over-large classes.   “We want to do many, many things.    We hope next year to have two Fifth Forms and a Form Six”.

 

                Mr. Goodger said that against these plans they had expectations of only two more classrooms next year and other improvements were to be carried out only at the expense of cycle sheds at the school.

 

                Describing the life of the school, Mr. Goodger said that it was made up in two ways – the seen and the unseen.  The growth of the school had taken many forms, he continued.   Many people did not know that the activities of a school, like West Byfleet, were not confined to the hours between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.    Before school starts in the morning pupils receive tuition he said, and when school ends at 4 o’clock the 18 or 20 clubs at the school spring into life.

 

                An example of the growth the school was making was the School Society, said Mr. Goodger.   This is a Society formed to help people in need and those who are lonely, he went on.   Originally the membership was 18, now the number stands at 49.   “This growth comes from a bond between teacher and taught”, he said.

 

                Mr. Goodger acknowledged the debt the school owed to the primary schools from which the West Byfleet pupils came.  But, he said, most praise must go to the teaching staff.  “I now have a very good staff.  The chief requirement of a successful teacher is not genius”, he continued, “but an ability for hard work and the knowledge that children need people who are interested in them and do care”.

 

                Mr. E .F. Marshall (principal of Shoreditch Training College) who distributed the prizes told the parents “I don’t expect I need to stress to you the very important work a school of this type does.   We read and hear of the marvels of modern science.   One of them is television, which can either be a great ally or a menace, but with all these marvels you cannot compress into a few years a total educational experience”, he said.   “You are only young once”, he continued, “and young people have got to have the chance to develop”.    He encouraged parents to keep their children at school beyond the minimum school leaving age.   “These schools have the chance to offer maximum educational experience, and I have great faith in schools of this type”.

 

                Mr. Marshall said that his own teachers training college had been pleased to accept a student from West Byfleet School, and he expressed the hope more would follow this example.  He referred to the great and urgent need for more teachers and to the excellent work they do.

 

                Presiding at the prize-giving, the Rev. A. J. Costin (chairman of the school governors) spoke of the excellent results achieved by the pupils and the teaching staff.

 

                The prize for the “most positive and constructive contribution to the whole of school life” was awarded to the head boy, David Hawkesworth.

 

 

PRIZES LIST

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                        FORM PRIZE

PROGRESS PRIZE

 

 

Form R2

 

 

 

 

   “    1B

Andrew Gleenslade

Margaret Blackshaw

 

 

   “    1AII

Kevin McReady

Graham Morgan

 

 

   “    1A

Veronica James

John Henshaw

 

 

   “    1R

Barry Mundy

Brenda Gent

 

 

   “    2C

Colin Pullen

Elaine Scott

 

 

   “    2B

June Durkin

Robert Stanford

 

 

  “     2A

Malcolm Robertson

Helen Coombes

 

 

   “    3C

James Gladdis

Keith Chandler

 

 

   “    3B

David Bonsall

Frances Taylor

 

 

   “    3T

David Wyatt

Ralph Bell

 

 

   “    3G

Janet Shepherd

Jean Boughton

 

 

   “    4C

Peter Chillingworth

Anthony Britten

 

 

   “    4B

David Billingsby

Kenneth Welburn

 

 

   “    4T

Brian Ratcliffe

Michael Endersby

 

 

   “    5T

 

Brian Thompson

 

 

SUBJECT PRIZES

 

Senior English

Shelia Turner

Senior French

Janet Shepherd

 

Junior English

Jacqueline Bennet

Junior French

Veronica James

 

Senior Maths

Keith Rose

Art

Susan Langridge

 

Junior Maths

Maureen Smith

Needlework

Elizabeth Humble

 

Science (Girls)

Helen Coombes

Domestic Science

Dawn Middleton

 

Science (Boys)

Rodney Chapman

Woodwork

Peter Chillingworth

 

History

Janet Southon

Metalwork

Michael Burnham

 

Geography

David Hawkesworth

P.E. and Games (Girls)

Jennifer Maskell

 

Music

Vivienne Rayner

P.E. and Games (Boys)

Robert Clark

 

R.I.

Brian Ratcliffe

Gardening

John Goss

 

 

COMMERCIAL COURSE PRIZES

Carol Stringer, Susan Kaye, Margaret Taylor, Enid Stevens, Kay Smith, Linda Benwell, Shelia Turner, Mary Fry

 

ENGINEERING COURSE PRIZES

Advanced Level:  Reginald Chapman, Rodney Chapman, Michael Grimshaw, Peter Langridge, Michael Veitch

Engineering Drawing:  Reginald Chapman, Rodney Chapman, Michael Grimshaw, Peter Langridge, Michael Veitch,

Metalwork:  Geoffrey Bennet, Eric Spires, Julian Tanner

Mathematics: Brian Anderson, Robert Deacon, Alan Rowe, John Thatcher

Physics: Stuart Morgan, Gerald Pearce, Keith Rose

 

PRELIMINARY COMMERCIAL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION

Judith Keene, Dawn Middleton, Barbara Mills, Rosemarie Baker, Vivien Moon, Barbara Simms, Catherine Crowhust, Veronica James, Louise Newton, Helen Baker, Christine Bullen, Betty Ratcliffe, Janet Southon, Helen Mandeville, Freda Speller, Avril Warren.

 

PRELIMINARY TECHNICAL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION

John Owen, Brian Ratcliffe, Derek Russell, Michael Endersby, Denise Loring, Richard Mills, Andrew Herfington, Richard Hale, Terence Miller, Richard Dawson, Geoffrey Stone, Anthony Watson, Peter Hadaway, Raymond Lacy, Maurice Hatcher, Alan Lonslow, Derrick Overhill, Howard Brewer, David Knight, Peter Ryan, Barry Seavers.

 

ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS

Stage 1 Shorthand

Susan Kaye, Carol Stringer, Margaret Taylor, Anne Atkinson, Linda Benwell, Kay Smith, Sheila Turner, Enid Stevens, Mary Fry

Typing:

Susan Langridge, Enid Stevens, Linda Benwell, Mary Fry, Susan Kaye, Kay Smith, Carol Stringer, Margaret Taylor, Joyce Tyler

Stage II – Shorthand

Susan Kaye and Carol Stringer

Typing

Susan Kaye and Carol Stringer

 

PITMAN’S SHORTHAND SPEED CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION

Linda Benwell, Susan Kaye, Kay Smith, Carol Stringer, Margaret Taylor

 

R.S.A. SCHOOL CERTIFICATE

John Pape, Martin Allen, Thomas Colley, Mary Fry, Patricia Mitson, Sylvia Turner, Brian Thomson, Timothy Lack, Anne Atkinson, Margaret Taylor, Joyce Tyler, Linda Benwell, Susan Campbell, Marilyn McCully and John Hedger.

 

 

 

GENERAL CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION 

(i)  “A” LEVEL

Rodney Chapman, Reginald Chapman, Michael Grimshaw, Peter Langridge, Geoffrey Bennet, Eric Spires and Michael Veitch

 

 (ii) “O” LEVEL

Rodney Chapman, Peter Langridge, Reginald Chapman, Geoffrey Bennet, Eric Spires, Keith Rose, Michael Veitch, Robert Deacon, Shelia Turner, Alan Rowe, Stuart Morgan, Gerald Pearce, Stephen Temple, Michael Grimshaw, Carol Stringer, Brian Anderson, Malcolm Collins, John Thatcher, Susan Kaye, Susan Langridge, David Allen, Arthur Ashton, David Fisk, Martin Greet, Michael Milne, Anne Atkinson, Peter Chillingworth, Thomas Colley, Jane Evans, David Gander, David Hawkesworth, John Hedger, Kay Smith, Enid Stevens, Jillian Tanner and Christopher Venn.

 

 

Best performance in Preliminary Commercial Certificate:  Judith Keene, Dawn Middleton

Best performance in Preliminary Technical Certificate: John Owen

Best Performance in School Certificate:   John Pape

Best Performance in G.C.E.: Keith Rose

 

Netball Trophy         Stollery House

Football Trophy          Cherverton House

Athletics Trophy       Stollery House

Cricket Trophy       Stollery House

L T Short Chess Trophy   Stollery House

Chess Tournament: Girls  Janet Shepherd   Boys David Bovington

 

House Competition Trophy: McClure House