Sec Mod

A place for people to share their memories and experiences of attending Secondary Modern Schools in Britain from 1944 to the early 1970s. Just click on 'comments' after any of the posts to leave your own memories and we'll post it up as soon as possible.

Saturday, 27 August 2022

Secondary Modern Boy

Friday, 22 June 2018

"A very un-special relationship"

First some background : I was at my second primary school as we had moved following my father’s promotion. It left me, as soon as I opened m...

Thursday, 31 May 2018

"None of you will get there"

I was always regarded as slow at Primary school. We were put into rows according to how bright we were. I was always in the last or last ...

Wednesday, 20 September 2017

How Being Open About Sec Mod Schooling is a Scary Option

I made my initial post here about my sec mod school experiences in 2014. I said then that I rarely mentioned my secondary schooling in ...

Thursday, 20 April 2017

"My Place" at the Grammar School

I attended a village primary school in Essex. The headmaster's daughter was in my class and we were best friends. In the run up to the ...

Saturday, 11 March 2017

Post Traumatic Secondary Modern Disorder

My mother taught me to read before I started school, so I could manage little Ladybird books and form crude letters on paper by the tim...

Tuesday, 11 October 2016

You Don't Fail as a Child

My experience of the grammar school/ secondary modern is possibly anomalous in comparison to the usual memories posted, but my education wa...

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About Me

Under the Cranes: Radio producer & film-maker. Research & producing programmes incl. Routes of English with Melvyn Bragg; Word of Mouth with Michael Rosen. Commissioned by BBC Radio 4 & Radio 3, I've produced feature programmes incl.Eye Hopes (30 mins montage about the city with commissioned poem by John Agard): The Smell of the Shale (30 min doc drawing on memories & archive of Speedway riders & fans from 1920s onwards): Oh My What a Rotten Song!(30 min music & social history about topical songwriters, Weston and Lee, writers of some of the most memorable topical songs & monologues of the first half of the 20th Century, with Roy Hudd, Billy Bragg, Denis Norden and Charles Chilton): 'A Place for Us' (30 min montage about experience of unaccompanied, asylum-seeking young people in East London): ';Zola in Norwood'; 45 min R3 Sunday Feature; 'A Story I Am In' 30 min poetry doc about James Berry; 'Crossing the Border: Poetry and Film R3: 'Adrian Mitchell: To Whom it May Concern'; 'The First Jazz Poet' R4: 'The American Art Tapes' R4 60 min; Sweeping the World for BBC World Service; Living Room R4

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