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A fitting introduction to our Jubilee Celebrations from Mrs Best
'Those Were The Days'
It is hard to believe that Ingleton Middle School is 75 years old, if it was a person it would be retired by now, but I don't think I have ever known the school as busy as it was on its
birthday week. To mark this important occasion, the whole school including the staff dressed up as they would have done in the 1930's.
Which meant for the girls: a skirt (which I wasn't looking forward to wearing ), knee high socks, a white shirt, and a woolly jumper. Boys were expected to wear knee length trousers and the rest was similar to the girls, apart from a tie. I enjoyed the whole week but I think the best thing about it was interviewing a past pupil. I interviewed a really lovely lady called Jean who was brilliant and told some really interesting stories about what the school was like when she was here.
The first thing we talked about was her teachers and lessons; her favourite lessons were English, PE and Maths. She was a good netball player and while she was captain Ingleton never lost a game! they even challenged the high school to a match. At the end of the match it was 15 all. The PE teacher, Miss Holden, said they could go into extra time. Her older sister, who was at the High School, scored the winning goal. Her other PE teacher was Mr Warmsly, who all the girls fell in love with. Soon after the war broke out, he signed up to be pilot but he was killed in the war. She also talked about the teachers she disliked; such as her cookery teacher Miss Harrison who used to walk round the class with a spoon and hit people.
As part of the week we have been trying out old fashioned playground games like whip and top and skipping. Jean also talked about what games she used to play. She said that there was no girls' football; but she thinks it is a wonderful opportunity for girls, (she supports Leeds and Carlisle). Another special thing about the week has been the drama production in which many pupils have been involved and was all about memories of the school. Drama was also being performed when Jean was at school. As Mr Leeming writes his own plays, I suppose theirs had a more traditional twist as they performed such things as Alice in Wonderland and Sleeping Beauty. Jean played both Alice and Sleeping Beauty.
The average 1930 stereotyped school dinner consisted of spam and a stodgy pudding. But it was one of those questions that sat on the top of my list to ask Jean - what were the school dinners like? I was slightly surprised by her answer. Where the music room is now, used to be a kitchen where you could go and eat sandwiches or you could go home for dinner. So there were no terrible tales of school dinners.
I have thoroughly enjoyed the week and would like to say a big thank you to Jean for sharing all this wonderful information with me. I wonder if in another 75 years time that they think of us dressing up? or maybe we will be the ones answering questions about what the 2005 Ingleton Middle was like?. Justine Milward
School 1930s Style
Monday 24th to Friday 28th was a very different week for us at Ingleton Middle. The school had its 75th anniversary and we went back to when the school first opened. It was 1930, so we had to look the part, which is exactly what we did. Everybody dressed
up in dull colours and all looked brilliant. Boys wore short trousers and the girls wore knee length skirts, both with long socks, shirts and woollen cardigans or jumpers. Teachers tried to be strict, some didn't have to try too hard though, and they all
had bamboo sticks as canes.
Assemblies were very different as we sang 'You Shall Go Out With Joy' and 'Shalom' every assembly and unfortunately we had to stand up. Girls were separate from the boys, (lucky for us girls), and we had a visitor in for every assembly. Mrs Parker came
in with the visitor once everybody was ready. She walked down the middle of everybody telling a few people they looked scruffy. The teachers did do a very good job though, they stayed in character well and scared us.
The lessons were also very different. Instead of P.E. we had P.T. which stands for physical training. In those lessons we played the bomb game where there were two teams, one carried ladders and the other carried bars. There were ropes to swing on and
wall bars to climb on. We had sirens on the CD player and when that went on everyone had to stay still and silent. If someone moved in that time they would get thirty seconds' penalty. Also, if someone touched the floor or equipment was dropped, thirty
seconds would go on their time. All the way round the course they had to carry a ball balanced on a tube which was a 'bomb'. If that fell off that's also thirty seconds! Everyone had great fun playing it.
At breaks and dinners everyone had to go outside and we played with skipping ropes and wooden toys. We had an inspector coming round on one day asking us questions. He was a bit scary. We also had the nurse coming round testing a few people. Also many
visitors who live in the community came to look round the school. The school pupils and staff are very grateful to them for visiting us, and we hope they had a brilliant look around. Overall I'd say it was a fun week but I'm glad we're in 2005 not 1935!
Katie Atherton
Jubilee week review
We have had a fantastic 1930's week. We did lots of different activities. It started off different from the moment we got to school. Normally we are allowed straight into school but for the week everyone had to wait outside until the bell went then we had to line up in two lines: boys and girls. We went in and went to our form rooms, then somebody would come around and tell us that we had to go to assembly. We went into assembly and all the boys lined up on one side of the hall and the girls on the other.
After we had finished assembly we went back to our class rooms and started lessons. We had the same lessons as we do now but we did not have French or I.C.T.
My favourite lesson was P.T because it was like an Indiana Jones Crusade because we had to carry around a ladder or two poles and go over all different obstacles without anything touching the floor. There were also quick intervals of air raids and dropping bombs (sound effects from a CD player - not very 1930's!) when they went off we had to freeze until the music stopped.
We did not have an electric bell so someone had to walk around ringing the bell everyday between lessons.
At playtime everyone had to go outside, we had different activities to do outside such as skipping, football, whip and top and we also played with yo-yo's. When we were in some lessons we had to write in a certain style which I found very difficult.
The major difference were the clothes and the hairstyles. For the uniform girls wore skirts, knee high socks, polo shirt and a woolly jumper, we also wore ribbons in our hair. Boys had to wear knee high socks, shirt, woolly jumper and crop trousers, they we not allowed any gel in their hair.
I really enjoyed the week and would like to do it again.
Laura Clarke
Golden Rules for Jubilee Week.
Jubilee Week from a Year 6 Point of View
Ingleton Middle's Jubilee Week was on the 24th to the 28th January. It was a way to celebrate the 75th birthday of our school.
The worst part, without a doubt, was the assemblies. They were torture! TORTURE! Firstly, we had to sing the same hymns all week. The head teacher was too strict. 'You! Polish those shoes for tomorrow!' or, 'And why is your tie like that? FIX
IT!' Also, in lesson, they liked to embarrass you. In R.E. - 'You, Fawcett! repeat the Lord's Prayer!' In English - 'You, Woolham, spell weather!' P.T. (physical training), however was all right. It was a type of assault course.
We all had to stand up when a teacher entered the room. Also, instead of detention, we got lines, lots and lots of lines.
Maths was in pounds (£) shillings (s) and pence (d). There are 12 pennies in a shilling and 20 shillings in a pound. So 6d + 7d = 1s 1d. Quite complicated if you think about it.
English was something no-one looked forward to, unless you liked standing in a corner with your nose against the wall. We did extremely neat handwriting, like this:
Our father, who art in heaven . . . .
All work had to be neat and tidy with no blotches at all! (We were using old fashioned pen and ink wells with a drop of ink in them)
But, there was a good side too. We had a meal which had the same stuff 1930's children would have eaten and it was lovely! We had to look like weirdoes in old fashioned uniform! But, strangely enough, I would do it again. It was fun.
Jack Fawcett Y6
A Week With A Difference
During the 1930's week the school did many different activities like P.T, this stands for- Physical training. We now call this P.E- physical education. This lesson was different as you had to work as a team to manoeuvre two metal bars, or a long ladder
around an obstacle course. You had to use the ladder or poles to help you complete the course without touching the floor with any part of your body. Just to make you concentrate even harder, one person had to carry a ball placed on top of a tube, we
classed this as 'the Bomb.' If the ball rolled off the top of the tube you gained 30 seconds to your team's final time. This also happened if your body touched the floor. I found this particularly difficult when I was crossing from the ladder to the
ropes, as I kept sliding off. This was great fun!
I didn't really enjoy the assemblies as you had to stand up, all the time. I didn't like it when Mrs Parker shouted at you for not going to church, or your socks were not pulled up enough. I also didn't like all the teachers shouting at us when you
hadn't done anything particularly wrong. That made me really nervous all the time.
I sort of enjoyed wearing old style clothes, but I found it difficult playing football in a skirt!
Sarah Richardson
Report on Jean
On Wednesday 26th January (2005) all of year 8 got the chance to interview visitors who came here for the day to look round the school that they had come to more or less in the 1930's.
The night before a teacher (Miss Shackleton) recommend us all to think of six questions to ask our interviewees. We were put into about eight groups and they gave a person to each group. My group got a elderly woman called Jean who was there in the 1930's. She told us loads of interesting things about what it used to be like and how it has changed.
Her favourite subjects were
1. English
2. P.E.
3. Maths.
She couldn't remember a lot of the teachers' names from back then but she could remember Dina Holden, the P.E. teacher, who was tall and blond. The homework started at the age of 11 and whatever it was; it wasn't a lot.
In the playground she can remember playing skipping, tig, hopscotch and only the boys played football. When she was talking about the teachers she also remembered another teacher whose name she couldn't recall, but she did remember that every girl in
the school fancied him! But the war began and he went to fight for the R.A.F. and sadly died a few weeks after. She told us a few long, sad stories which were really fascinating.
Ashleigh Wood
Interview with Rosalin
During the jubilee week I interviewed a lady called Rosalin. She came to Ingleton Middle School in 1940, she enjoyed the school. Her favourite lessons were: needle work, maths and English. She did not like singing lessons.
On a normal day there would be assembly first then register. For most of her lessons she stayed in her form room. She did move to different class rooms for lessons such as: woodwork needlework and P.T. After they had had lessons they would have a short playtime and go home. Her day started at 9 am and finished at 3:45 pm.
Rosalin said that school had not changed very much, although the hall was used as a gym, dinner hall and an assembly hall. The music room used to be the kitchen, the canteen was started half way through her school years but it was not finished when she left. Rosalin came when she was five and left when she was fifteen.
The punishment was really bad because you would either get the cane or six rulers on the hand. Or maybe you had to clean the door handles or miss every playtime. Some of the teachers were really bad tempered.
Here are some facts that Rosalin told us:
I would like to do something like this again.
Shelly Tatham
7KB in thirties gear, with the hymns for the week behind.
Drama Production - The Old Days
Mr Leeming and Mrs Best, the directors of this year's drama, proudly presented 'The Old Days' on the 26th and 27th of January 2005.
Many pupils took part in this production including the main characters: Grace Harrison and Ann Allsopp in year 8, Eleanor Dawson in year 7 and Bethan Harrison and Millie Boxall in year 6. Many people came to watch this production, so the hall was jam packed. Mr Leeming and Mrs Best were 'totally impressed' with the students' talent. In my scene - scene 10, Lisa Maria Ward could not stop laughing because she was holding the baby upside down so you couldn't tell what she was saying. She also set me off laughing but it all come back together when Sarah (the ox) and Ellie Brown (the ass) managed to keep straight faces when it was their line.
I enjoyed doing this play and being part of this production. Laura Dawson
Domestic Science
In the morning of the 27th January, we had an assembly. Then the bell went to go to first lesson, my class all lined up outside the Domestic Science room. When we got in there we sat down and and Mrs Mckenzie showed us the process of making a Steam Sponge.
We all had to wash our hands for hygiene reasons, and get our ingredients out. Instead of having hard margarine I brought soft butter.
When I mixed the butter with some of my other ingredients, it all went really sticky, and when I added the egg my mixture went runny and sloppy. To add to my other problems, when I added the flour and milk the mixture got stuck to the spoon, so Mrs Shepherd added more milk, it worked a treat, not too runny and not too sticky. I smoothed and levelled my mixture down in the bowl with a pleat in the middle, the excess dough was folded under the sides.
Next we got a piece of cloth, doing the same thing, but we tied it round the sides; the excess cloth was pinned on top.
The mixture was then steamed. We then washed up and wrote down the recipe in our books, and went to dinner.
After the lessons of the day had been completed we collected our nicely steamed pudding, (mine was absolutely gorgeous) and my mum and I ate it all for tea with Carnation cream on top of it
Most people in my class loved it and wished that they could make it again in Food Tech sometime.>
Amy Fretwell
Discipline and Punishment in the 1930's
In the 1930's if a child was rude, silly, noisy or made mistakes they were punished by getting a caning or having to write lines.
In the 1930's you would have been caned for dropping something or just for whispering in class, the visitors we got coming to the school told us the caning hurt a lot, but I have not experienced any of these punishments because today caning is not legal but even though writing lines is legal, I didn't have to do any.
In the 1930's the punishments were very different to today, today we have detention or have to stay in at break, schools were much more strict in the 1930's.
Personally I prefer 2005 to the 1930's.
Sarah Pattinson
The School Nurse
In the Jubilee week the school nurse came in to check our hair and our eyes. The nurse was talking to us about what would have happened in the 1930's when the nurse came in.
First she picked some children to test, then one by one, she checked to see that their hands were clean, then she checked behind their ears to make sure they were having a good wash.
Next she checked in their hair for lice because they can easily spread and last of all she checked their knees to see if they had rickets.
After that she picked one child to do an eye test on, she measured 180 cm away from the child, then she started the test. The letters started off really big and then got a lot smaller. The child passed the test and had good eye sight.
Next, she told us about a disease called T.B. If you had the disease you would be put in isolation for a while; it was a bad illness. The nurse then told us to stay healthy by eating apples and lots of fruit. You could also stay healthy by taking a teaspoon of cod liver oil every day.
Our school nurse was really good at acting the part of a school nurse in the 1930's.
Shauna Tennant
Jubilee Week Interview
1 Have you enjoyed the week? Yes. I think it was brilliant.
2 Did you think everyone in the school enjoyed it overall? Yes I think most people enjoyed it but if they didn't they didn't show it.
3 Did you enjoy the lessons? Yes, I thought they were cool but a bit scary.
4 What was your favourite lesson and why? P.T., because it was challenging and you got to get the equipment out.
5 What was your least favourite lesson and why? R.E., because they were very strict and we had to recite the Lord's Prayer.
6 Do you prefer a normal school day or a 1930s school day? I don't know because normally it is always the same but if it was 1930s week all the time I probably would prefer a normal week.
7 Did you enjoy the special school dinner? Yes it was gorgeous and the meat was delicious.
Chleo Watson and Hannah Colledge 6AP
