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Highwood, but what year?

My thanks to former Highwoodian Ann for the photo and to Mark for his attempts to date the photo.  They suggested, in the 'flares' era, any time after 1972...

Alan has helped us to narrow down the possibilities: ' I would say that this photo was taken in 1976 or 1977. Dr Boyd Gunnell is next to the bus, I think he started teaching at Highwood in 1976.'  Paul Wharf's distinctive Renault, parked outside his office, is also a clue as he had the car until 1977.

 

Memories of 3W and our wonderful terrapin, 24 June 1977

Left to Right, Back Row :

Mandy James, Karen Ellis, Tina Logan, Tom Pilston?, Karen Nash?, Sue Robinson, Alison Gilbert, Rosie Wells, April Church, Darryl Payne, Nigel Pinnell, Julian Blunt, Tim Gould, Robert Maller, Clive Ellis, Peter Birch, Alan Lane

Front Row:

Jackie?, Pat Clark, Paula Watkins, Paula Jones, Sarah Cooke, Angela Church, Mandy Browse, Jane Morley, Peter Palmer, Tim Nurding, Barry Clark, Steve Yolland.

Many thanks Alan Eastwood for the latest additions - sorry that you missed the photo because of a music lesson!
 
Staff and Pupils c1990 School Photo: this is the last whole school photo that was taken before it closed.  Help with names is needed! As you visit other pages, you will see more photos of pupils and staff, such as here

 

 

 
Visitors: Sadly, I have few documents or photos left, as indicated by the brief list of pages below.  Perhaps you have an item associated with a special visitor to the School? 

 
Highwood School History: This page provides some links to publications / sites regarding Highwood School, as well as more new photos!  As the site develops, I hope to write a full account of the School's history using documents and reports, especially those from local newspapers, that cover Highwood's history.
 
Nailsworth Secondary Modern School : Currently, this page has photos from the 1950s and 1960s.  More information and photos are welcome!
 
Highwood School's Last Day: Details and photos from the final day's programme and the Head's Report to Governors.
 
Performances (plays and concerts) Updated 9 February 2009 with newspaper reviews

Has anyone got photos, programmes, reviews for: HMS Pinafore; The Rebels of Gas Street; The Eighteenth Emergency; The Coming of the Kings?

Remember the Très Bonne Soirée with the French cuisine and the Can Can dancers?

 
 
Sport Events and Achievements New page
 
Summary of Achievements:  A summary of some of Highwood's achievements in its latter years.

 
Special Days:  Which days do you remember?   
Curriculum achievements and displays, such as:
  • Control  Technology
  • Flight (Remember those birds of prey and Dennis Day and his pigeons?)
  • Story telling (History project 'When I was 14' in association with Nailsworth Old Comrades' Club)
  • Micro-electronics
  • French Trips to St Malo and Paris
  • Clearwell Caves
  • Gloucester Waterways Museum
  • Big Pit

School-community environmental programmes: the planting of 100 trees to extend High Wood, situated on the edge of the school playing field, thereby providing an ecological area for extra-curricular activities.

School trips abroad such as: Rouen 1988, Bulgaria 1989, Le Touquet 1990

Sports achievements?

The Birds of Prey Day
 
  An extract from: My First Day at School

by Stuart Ryland published in Twiglet

Highwood is the type of school
That makes you feel at home
Everyone's so friendly
You never feel alone.

My brother went there first you see
So I didn't feel too scared
For I knew what it was like
And that the teachers cared.

At the end of a very exciting day
Where everything looked grand
I felt that my future years here
Would be the best that could be found.

 

  
 

Clearwell Caves trip: remember the tunnels we wriggled through?

 

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Storytelling in languages other than English:

Ann Taylor tells her tale in French