1988-93

Just looking at the web site, which I like, but I can't help but think .... I can't be the only person who didn't enjoy my time at Wymondham?

I was sure that because I wasn't an excellent student, sportsman or shone in any area really, that I was as significant in the teacher's minds as I was to the refectory staff.  I really didn't come out of my shell until I left and went to another 6th form where I met with real life, was spoken to like a person and learnt the value of all people!

Now I don't know if it suddenly all changed during Wymondham 6th form but there was no amount of free beer that could have make me stay! Actually there may be but that's beside the point! J.  This sounds all melodramatic but I just seemed to be lost with all the average pupils.

Maybe my dislike of Wymondham has rose-tinted the idea of all other schools. It's just as likely that it would have been the same whichever school I was at!  But I do hear my friends (who are now teachers) as they speak about even the uninspired pupils with a kind of affection and unassuming realism which never seemed like being shown at Wymondham.

I don't want this to be a complete hate rant!

I wonder if in a few years I may stop and think differently about it but I feel no nostalgic love of my time there apart from it was my school so it would be interesting to see the place again! There were people I could call friends and a couple of funny memories but I just have this underlying cold feeling towards the institution and that I feel in no way debited to the place which I spent a chunk of my life!

Well I'm not sure where I'm going with this (if anywhere), but here are a couple of things I remember with fond, strange, awkward and annoying memory:

• Seeing Mr. Sayers handcuffs hanging on the cupboard when you walked past his Kett office!

• Nissen Huts .... sorry, I loved them

• History Club with Mr. Lockwood which basically was a few of us watching Battle of Britain, Waterloo, All Quiet on the Western Front, Zulu on alternate week .... that was it!

• The Grey Lady

• Lights Out

• Maxpax Machines

• Still one of the funniest things I have seen I my life was Duncan Catchpole running into a lamppost while playing football (I'm chuckling again now! James Dixon may know what I'm talking about!)

• Sneakily playing games on the Archimedes computers

• Daddy-long-legs that used to cover the (old) CDT block

• *0x 's

• Being told when you could bathe!

Have more, but best get on.  And finally (kinda related) but I love looking on Friends Reunited and seeing who has done well and feel that everyone needs to know about it ... self-back-slapping is very funny!

James Findlater (Kett 1988-93)

 

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