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.

Monday, 20 February 2012

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I was born in South Africa and lived there until I was nearly 12, when the whole family came to England permanently in 1961.  There was no...
Saturday, 4 February 2012

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Secondary Modern Experience By Archie Last Year of Junior School. In infants school I had shown some early aptitude for reading an...
Thursday, 2 February 2012

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First, thanks for starting this site. It really is amazing how rarely one hears the voice of any Secondary Modern educated person in a conte...
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1. What was the last year at primary school like - in particular studying for the 11-plus exam?   I don't remember "studying...
Tuesday, 31 January 2012

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At the heart of this blog will be the memories of people who were part of the Secondary Modern School experience: pupils, teachers, parent...
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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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