Thursday, 20 April 2017

"My Place" at the Grammar School

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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 ...
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Saturday, 11 March 2017

Post Traumatic Secondary Modern Disorder

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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...
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Tuesday, 11 October 2016

You Don't Fail as a Child

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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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Saturday, 8 October 2016

I failed the 11plus. Twice.

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I live in Northern Ireland where we still have Secondary schools and Grammar schools and a system of selection at age 11. In fact, parents i...
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Wednesday, 14 September 2016

Imposter Syndrome

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I went to a Catholic secondary modern school, but am unusual in that through my school career I attended Sec Mods, comprehensive and eventua...
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Monday, 30 May 2016

I said I wanted to be a 'lady detective'

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I passed my 11+ (1947) but failed the oral examination because I said I wanted to be a 'lady detective', so instead of going to Hast...
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Saturday, 17 October 2015

Secondary Education Up North

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"S econdary  e ducation in the northern industrial town I grew up in was aimed at producing chemical workers for ICI.  The town ...
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