The following extract appeared in the “Woking News and Mail” in November 1962

 

WEST BYFLEET SECONDARY SCHOOL SPEECH DAY 1962

 

EXAMINATION RESULTS THE BEST EVER

 

 

            Although housed in a “grand old pile” West Byfleet C.S. School has had a very successful year.  Mr. F.W. Goodger (headmaster) explained at the speech day on Wednesday that the examination results were by far the best that had ever been achieved, and on the sports field the boys and the girls had done extremely well.

 

            Mr. Goodger said there were now 670 children in the school, as opposed to 370 eight years ago.  The African village of huts had been increased by one.  Each year more and more children stayed on into the fifth and sixth forms.  There were 40 in the sixth year, 83 in the fifth and 143 due to do the same.  This meant that about 40 per cent of the children were engaged on work leading to external examinations.

 

            Mentioning some of the clubs and societies, Mr. Goodger said he was pleased to report on the work done among local old people by the School Society.   Other good work which was being carried out included collection for the “War on Want” campaign.  Last year £60 was collected for this fund.

 

            The examination results were by far the best that the school had ever achieved.   Eighty-nine candidates had been submitted for the G.C.E.    ‘O’ level examination in 17 subjects, and to the ‘A’ level in three subjects.   Eighty passed 262 subjects out of the 352 that they took.   This was a percentage of 74, compared with the national average of 43.   The candidates passed an average of 3.3 subjects each.  Two girls (Christine Murch and Josephine King) had passed eight subjects, setting up a school record.

 

            To achieve such results in a building which was but a “grand old pile” was a tremendous feat.  It was the teach staff who were responsible for these successes.

 

            Miss V.L. Hill (headmistress of Woking County Grammar School for Girls) presented the prizes.   Congratulating the school on its fine achievements, she said that those who had done well, but those who came behind them.    Once the standard had been raised then others found that they could do it too.

 

            She urged all the school pupils to make the fullest use of the wonderful opportunity they had.   People had no limit to their power of learning.    “Learn about everything and anything.  Never stop learning.  The education authorities give education free.   Take it and learn how to learn”, she said.

 

            If a person left school too early, then they would find themselves ill-prepared for the world.  If a person did leave school early they should make sure that the job to which he or she was going provided facilities to go on learning.

 

            People also had the gift of choice.  “Do not let television decide what programme to look at.   Do not let a newspaper dictate what views to hold.  Do not let advertisements decide what things to buy.  Be grown up and have a wider choice.”

 

PRIZES LIST

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                        FORM PRIZE

PROGRESS PRIZE

 

 

Form R2

Colin Coleman

Christine Ilsley

 

 

   “    1B

David Williams

Jacqueline Blackshaw

 

 

   “    1A II

Pauline Herbert

David Wilson

 

 

   “    1A 1

Frank Rainer

Sandra Hughes

 

 

   “    R1

Madeline Hitchman

Bruce Shepherd

 

 

   “    2C

Alastair Provo

David Bowell

 

 

   “    2B 

Anne Gerrish

Gillian Cook

 

 

   “    2A

Douglas Palmer

Paul Fenne

 

 

   “    3C

Eileen Polley

Roy Crowther

 

 

   “    3B

Gillian Bolton

Raymond Reed

 

 

   “    3T

Andrew Hazelden

David Benham

 

 

   “    3G

Maureen Fowler

Shirley Park

 

 

   “    4C

Roger Anderson

David Power

 

 

   “    4B

Susan Stuart

Richard Johnson

 

 

   “    4T

Clifford Lomas

Helen Welch

 

 

   “    4G

Malcolm Robertson

Colin Edwards

 

 

   “    5T

Glenn Barclay

Ralph Bell

 

 

  “     5G

Janet Shepherd

Janet Reaper

 

 

SUBJECT PRIZES

 

Senior English

Susan Platford

Art

Susan Platford

 

Junior English

Douglas Palmer

Needlework

Pauline Hill

 

Senior Maths

Denise Loring

Domestic Science

Maria Chiverton

 

Junior Maths

Andrew Wheeler

Woodwork

Roger Anderson

 

Science (Girls)

Maureen Fowler

Metalwork

Roger Souter

 

Science (Boys)

Brian Ratcliffe

P.E. and Games (Girls)

Jill Dedman

 

History

Rosamund Gee

P.E. and Games (Boys)

Anthony Cookman

 

Geography

Wendy Adlam

Gardening

Barry Oxley

 

Music

Judith Lunn

R.I.

Josephine King

 

Senior French

Elizabeth Thomson

French (junior)

Melinda Platford

 

Commercial

Dawn Middleton

Engineering Course 6T

Brian Ratcliffe   (metalcraft)

 

 

Rosemary Baker

 

Anthony Watson (Tech. drawing)

 

COMMERCIAL COURSE PRIZES

R.S.A. Shorthand

Stage I.   Shirley Hargreaves, Mary Haden-Morris and Helen Shepherd

Stage II   Rosemarie Baker and Dawn Middleton

Typewriting

Stage I.    Janet Anthony and Helen Sheppard

Stage II.   Rosemarie Baker

 

Pitman’s Typewriting

Mary Haden-Morris and Barbara Mills

 

Pitman’s Shorthand Examination

Janet Anthony, Maureen Hall, Susan Howbrook,  Shirley Hargreaves, Mary Haden-Morris, Margaret Mayo, Barbara Mills, Helen Sheppard and Dawn Middleton

 

Pitman’s Shorthand Typist Examination

Dawn Middleton and Rosemarie Baker

 

R.S.A. SCHOOL CERTIFICATE

Ralph Bell, Glenn Barclay, John Golding, John Maskell, David Wyatt, Ian Evans, Leslie Rowe, Dawn Middleton, John French, Louise Newton, Derek Holmes, John Hoatson, David Wigman, Mary Doe, Timothy Hawke, John Charteris, Maureen Hall, Shirley Hargreaves, Barbara Mills, Helen Sheppard, Mary Christian, Carole Brittain, Joan Carter, Denise Greenwood, Malcolm Hill, Jennifer Stephens, Janet Anthony, Rosemarie Baker, Susan Howbrook, Helen Mandeville, Margaret Mayo, Mary Haden-Morris, Susan Neal, Janet Scott, Lesley Loring, Brenda Witchlow, Shirley Ravenhill, Hazel Deverall, Susan Arthur, Jill Lambert, Pauline Hill, Janet Southon and Peter Hadaway.

 

GENERAL CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION 

(i)  “A” LEVEL

Brian Ratcliffe, Raymond Lacy, Anthony Watson, Richard Dawson, Michael Endersby, Richard Hale and Maurice Hatcher

 

 (ii) “O” LEVEL

Stuart Morgan, Christine Murch, Anthony Watson, Richard Hale, John Owen, Brian Ratcliffe, Richard Dawson, Josephine King, Janet Shepherd, Valerie Simes, Denise Loring, Maurice Hatcher, David Bovington, Janet Reaper, Alison Greet, Michael Endersby, Lauren Benth(?), Jean Boughton, Louise Newton, Christopher Twitchen, Glen Barclay, Richard Mills, David Hawksworth, John Thatcher, Robert Hurst(?), Ralph Bell, Charles Fouler(?), Leslie Rowe, Susan Platford, Raymond Lacy, Mary Christian, Barbara Mills, Janet Southon, John Dignan, John Hoatson, Brian Ide, John Maskell, David Wyatt, Rosemarie Baker, Carole Brittain, Maureen Hall, Susan Neal, Jennifer Stephens, Doreen Wing, Helen Mandeville, Dawn Middleton, Ian Evans, Ivor Galen, Alan Jeffrey, Stewart Lindsay, Ian McNaughton, Barry Monk, Robert Phillips, Michael Wylam, Peter Hadaway, David Knight, Alan Lonslow, Janet Anthony, Susan Howbrook, Shirley Ravenhill, Brenda Witchlow, John Charteris, Malcolm Hill, David Wigman, Brian Blatford, John Golding, Norman Mills, Joan Carter, Pauline Hill, Lesley Loring, Helen Sheppard, Hazel Deverall, Susan Arthur, Jill Lambert, Mary Haden-Morris, Shirley Hargreaves, Timothy Hawke, John French, Wynford Hughes, and Roger McDermott.

 

 

 

Best Performance in School Certificate:   Ralph Bell

Best Performance in G.C.E.:   Christine Murch and Josephine King

Chess Tournament    Christopher Twitchen and Janet Shepherd

 

Netball Trophy               Hamilton House

Football Trophy            Hamilton  House

House Competition Trophy  Stollery House

LT Short chess trophy    Hamilton House

 

DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S AWARD SCHEME

Bronze Medals:  David Crowther, Roy Crowther, David Poole, John Day, Christopher Knight and Robin Warner.

Silver Medals:  Richard Griffiths, Jeffrey Hollingdale and Arthur Kaye