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May 1968 |
May 1968 Woking and Trophies presented by Mr.
T.A. Talbot of Woking Athletic Club. |
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The school scored 4 firsts,
4 seconds and 7 thirds. |
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100 yards – boys under 13 yrs |
1st S. Collins |
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100 yards – girls under 13
yrs |
3rd J. Kemp |
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150 yards – girls under 17
yrs |
2nd J. West |
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220 yards – boys under 14
yrs |
3rd G. Blake |
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220 yards – boys under 16
yrs |
2nd B. Lloyd-Jones |
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880 yards – girls under 15
yrs |
1st Wendy Kiener
RECORD
2 min 31.8 sec (see below) |
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1 mile – boys under 15 yrs |
2nd J. Doe |
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Javelin – boys under 14 or 15
yrs (?) |
3rd C. Randall |
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Long jump girls under 15
yrs |
3rd S. Rice |
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Hurdles – 80 yards boys under
15 yrs |
1st S. Tibble RECORD
13.1 secs |
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Hurdles – 80 yards girls
under 15 yrs |
2nd P. Bryant |
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Hurdles – 110 yards boys
under 17 yrs |
3rd Bateman |
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Relay – 110 yards girls
under 15 yrs |
3rd |
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Shot – boys under 15 yrs |
1st B. Lloyd-Jones
33ft |
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Steeplechase – boys under
17 yrs |
3rd Roberts |
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May 1968 |
The
following article appeared in the Surrey Advertiser on 25th May
1968 GOVERNORS
OPPOSE MERGER A recommendation strongly
opposing the proposed merger of West Byfleet County Secondary and Fullbrook
County Secondary Schools has been forwarded to Woking Education Committee by
the board of governors of the West Byfleet Group of schools. The governors had
previously remained neutral on the merger until a meeting on Wednesday at
West Byfleet. The recommendation is: “This body is strongly opposed to the proposed merger
of West Byfleet County Secondary School and Fullbrook County Secondary
School, taking into account representation from parents and teachers and
bearing in mind the urgent needs of the West Byfleet County Primary School. “The governors desire to retain the status quo and
to try and get a new school on the West Hall site as soon as possible”. Last week 26 teachers from
the staff of West Byfleet County Secondary School signed a letter to the
Woking Urban Council and the Surrey County Council protesting about the
merger. A Surrey County Council
spokesman said that the letter would be forwarded to a sub-committee which
would not be meeting for two weeks. At this stage there could
be no official comment. And a Woking Education
Committee spokesman said that the letter would be placed before the next
meeting of the education finance and general purposes sub-committee on 20th
June when the complete proposal would be discuss cussed. It would also be brought up
at the full education committee meeting on 1st July. Mr. Norman E Charman, a teacher at West Byfleet, and one of those who
signed the protest letter, said on Wednesday that some parents had written to
the school supporting the letter. |
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16th June 1968 |
Wendy Kiener
represented Woking Schools in the Surrey School’s Athletic Championships at
Motspur Park. She was 2nd in
the 880 yards final in a time of 2 minutes 30.2 seconds. 1st was Dianna Marchmont from
Purley. |
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June 1968 |
Inter-house sports day FULL RESULTS FOR SPORTS
DAY 1968 |
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July 1968 |
The
following article appearing in the Woking News and Mail on 6th July 1968 Councillor
Talks of “Snobbery” School
merger plan a “shabby move” – head Surrey County Council
Education Committee has been told that the Governors of Fullbrook County
secondary School and The proposed merger of West
Byfleet and Fullbrook County Secondary Schools was described as a “very
shabby move by the county”
by Miss Violet Hill, headmistress of the Woking Girls’ Grammar school, at a
meeting of the Woking Education Committee on Monday. She claimed: “It will set a precedent, if carried out,
and will be known all over the country as the botched up scheme”. The committee accepted
recommendation from the education (finance and general purposes) sub-committee
that support be given to the governors in “their determination to maintain their existing school and secure the
early implementation of the already agreed major building project on the West
Hall site”, and that it did not agree that both schools should be
amalgamated by the closure of the West Byfleet Secondary as a separate
school. It was also decided to
invite representatives of the county education committee to meet Woking
Education Committee to discuss the matter further. Doubtful But Mr. Terence Molloy
opposed the first two recommendations. He said “In the present financial position, it is doubtful whether we will be
able to build on the West hall site. “Furthermore many parents in this area have opposed
the merger because of the element of snobbery. The railway line is a class divider and we
are also told that there is a class question among the children. This may be the objection of the parents
but it should not influence the merger proposal”, he declared. He went on: “We were also told that certain children
from Pyrford would have to go to Sheerwater School. This was objected to. But I think from an educational view point
it would be a good idea. “The mixing of children of different classes and the
mixing of children of different environments would be a definite educational
advantage”. Mr. Molloy claimed that he
had not heard any educational arguments against the merger even though it was
opposed by nearly all the staff at the West Byfleet County Secondary School. He declared: “People are taking this parochial
opposition to the tenth degree. In
this case I feel the county is justified.
I also hope that this committee grows up and deals with educational
arguments”. Support Supporting Mr. Molloy, Mrs.
P. M. Collyer, headmistress of Westfield County Junior School, said that
mixing children of different homes and families would be an advantage
educationally to both sides. She added that she did not
consider parents objections on class grounds as valid. “After all”, she said, “the
educational feeling about the school is the most important thing”. She added that the Surrey
County Teachers Association was in favour of comprehensive education. “But”, she
said, “you cannot deploy teachers to
their best flexibility and advantage if you keep moving them from school to
school. “And if you give us* the West Hall site you are
going to be extremely sorry because you will need it in 10 to 15 years time. The present recommendations seem to be
panic measures”. A pity Said Mrs. Rhoda McGaw: “It is a pity that the schools should have
to merge, but it has many advantages.
It seems also that these arguments put forward by parents are openly
used because it suits.” But Miss Hill said that it
was not a case of closing a school and absorbing it somewhere else. It
was a case of completely eradicating one school. “We should wait until the new building is on the West Hall site”,
she said. Mr. Cyril Codgebrook
described the county’s plan as having an “entirely illogical approach”. He claimed that there would be an element
of “uncertainty” hanging about if
the merger took place because teachers at West Byfleet had openly opposed it. The opposition to the
recommendations was overwhelmingly defeated when put to the meeting. |
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July 1968 |
The
following article appearing in the Woking News and Mail on 13th
July 1968 School
merger scheme Surrey County Council
Education Committee has been told that the Governors of Fullbrook County secondary
School and the North Western Divisional Executive support the proposed merger
between Fullbrook school and the West Byfleet County Secondary School. The merger had been
proposed to coincide with the retirement in July of the present headmaster of
the Fullbrook school and because of the possible effect upon the proposed
rebuilding of the West Byfleet school at the Governments revised building
programme which is likely to involve a substantial curtailment of schemes for
extensions to secondary school accommodation particularly schemes providing
for improved accommodation rather than essential extra places. The North-Western
Divisional Executive and the Woking Education Committee have been consulted
on the possibility of combining the two schools under the head of the West
Byfleet County Secondary School to create an eight-form entry school. The Woking Education Committee
discussed the matter at their meeting on Monday last week and accepted a
recommendation from a sub-committee to support the West Byfleet school
governors in their “determination” to maintain their existing school. This decision has to be ratified
by Woking Urban Council later this month. * Due to the word “us”
being used in error instead of “up” a misleading impression was given in our
last issue of comment by Mrs. P.M. Collyer at Woking Education
Committee. Speaking in the debate
about the suggested West Byfleet-Fullbrook Secondary schools merger she told
the committee: “If you give up the West
Hall site now you are going to be extremely sorry because you will need it in
10 to 15 years time”. |
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6th July 1968 |
School Sailing Cruise |
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