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.

Sunday, 16 June 2013

A Teacher & Parent Viewpoint

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In 1964 I think, my daughter, Jill, went to Aylesbury Secondary Modern Girls' School in Bromley. It was also when I began my own tea...

Saturday, 31 March 2012

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In my final year at primary I got to sit a lot of practise papers. My parents were called into the school because although I was top of the ...

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I also don't remember taking the 11+ although I may have done. My parents went through a period of legal seperation and so we moved betw...

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Sunday, 25 March 2012

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I moved to a junior school in the south of England in 1964 from Scotland and joined the last two terms. I had already been to 4 different sc...

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Wednesday, 7 March 2012

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1. I was from a single parent family and my mother and I moved around a great deal. I went to 11 different infant and primary schools. I ...

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...

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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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