The lower forms or year groups of a school.
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Ah, now as far as the school is concerned, we had, there was no vocational aside from there was a commercial department. And the main, it was all academic...ah, straight high-school course where the students...the school was divided into the lower school, the middle school and upper school. You probably (inc.) I-suppose from Miss-Miles. Interviewer: Vaguely, yes. Speaker: And ah, the process of study was set by the department of education and there were exams set by the department of education in lower, middle and upper school ... |
The lower forms or year groups of a school. |
... ah then in the lower school, there was a lower school textbook on Botany, and there was a lower school zoology but I taught agriculture as well, agricultural science and the agricultural courses ah, we taught a little place of botany and zoology. |
The lower forms or year groups of a school. |
Now there was quite a lot of botany and then there was a certain amount of zoology in the courses but there was no strong objection to them, they were taught in the lower school. Agriculture one and agriculture two and then in the middle school there was agriculture one and agriculture two there, that corresponded to physics and chemistry. |
The lower forms or year groups of a school. |
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Speaker: ... and he complained and it became a thing with the department of education: nothing modern must be taught in the schools for fear of... Interviewer: For fear of words like that. Speaker: Things like that. I can remember we had a book of... One thing we were able to prescribe in the lower school, we had a little book of one-act plays that Lester and I had. And he said one girl's father came to him and every time in the play "damn" or "gosh" or "my-god" or something he had it underlines (laughs). |
The lower forms or year groups of a school. |
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Interviewer: If you wanted a higher ah certificate you went to- Speaker: You had to go- yeah. You could go to Renfrew, to the model school, with just, um, well, it would be called grade-ten in high-school, now. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Mm-hm. Speaker: We used to call it lower school. Interviewer: Mm-hm. What did you like most about school? Speaker: Mm. I liked, um, mathematics. (laughs) I didn't like spelling; I was a poor speller. |
The lower forms or year groups of a school. |
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We were all there. Anyway, we got transferred to the sch-- middle-school, that year, they transferred the Kravets and that from the lower school up- up- so that fell- because when we went last, there was only about four or five in that school. But- but then they transferred them, so that left the whole school full. So then ah- their lower school, from the Glen-Tay sideroad, went to- the Kravets went down, and- and- and we came up! |
The lower forms or year groups of a school. |
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And that ah um, James-Halliwell that was the first school teacher in Perth, was buried just across the road from the school. Ah now they moved his grave to ah the old burial ground ah, but he taught in that lower school for a little while too. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: Yeah, so it was around for quite a while. It actu-- it, that school was sitting across where the log house is at one time. |
The lower forms or year groups of a school. |
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Okay. The kids, nowadays, play school- one school plays another. There was no such thing as the Upper-Scotch-Line playing the Centre-Scotch-Line or the Lower-School. Because, as Dad said, you'd them god-damn Kennedies and Kellers and two Dades just thrown in to boot, and they're all a bunch of god-damn delinquents up there. |
The lower forms or year groups of a school. |
