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Keep sending me corrections - we’re doing just fine! Version 3 will be distributed soon so if you were just about to send me something - now would be a good time! The only good thing about Covid19 is that yesterday, when it was absolutely coming down in stair rods all day, Val and I should have been walking from Lindisfarne to Berwick! We wouldn’t have noticed if the tide was in or out - we’d have been so wet! We’re going to try again in September when the autumn will be just the best on record!
From Maggie at 13.30
Hi Glenda love the rules, especially 11 and 12! However have not yet dashed off to the local pub for a pint of beer on ‘let out day’..
From Ann at 16.33
A somewhat belated comment on the earlier theme of QEGGS teachers, as I felt the science stream was perhaps under-represented.
I think some of the mathematics teaching was good, not always the case in girls' schools of that period (or indeed more generally, even today).I found Mrs Lawson very good. I seem to recall at some point an announcement in assembly that she had carried out further study and had just been awarded an MSc. When I entered QEGGS in the LVth, I was in her maths set for a couple of terms (before being 'promoted' to Miss Grimsey's) ;later she taught me the applied maths component of A-Level Mathematics and was my form teacher in Lower VIth. Miss Grimsey -and Miss Reeve, who taught the Pure Maths component of A-Level- were also good.
For O-level Biology , the 'special science' stream had Miss Broad, who was interesting and knew her stuff. For me, there was a bit of difficulty, as the coverage at my former school had not quite matched that into which I came, and the way that bones fitted together formed a lacuna in my understanding, which I had not overcome by catching up from others' drawings and notes, which I had done on other topics and subjects. Indeed in mock O-level in biology paper, although I had achieved a high mark on the theory paper. I think I then had some remedial lunchtime sessions studying bones-and fortunately they did not come up in the O- level exam itself.
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