Woodlands School

Hi Mick - yes, both he and Harvey Wyatt retired in the mid 1990s, and I left then for pastures new!

I liked Harvey, had more to do with him than I did with Bernard. As well as Harvey teaching me, he also ran the school football team. Good bloke!!

I have not laughed so much in ages, reading the post here. I was a Woodlands pupil in Stringer House from 1972-76, House Master Jock Edney. So FWIW - The Good - Jim Wilkinson, art teacher. A joy to be in his class. Great teacher, able to inform and inspire. Mick Twistleton, my form master. Kind man. Let us do ‘enquiry studies.’ Basically anything we were interested in. (-: Sue Underwood. I remember riotous applause when she played guitar and sang at a General Assembly. The Bad - Mr Hotot, French teacher. Once picked up a kid by throat and slapped him around the face, for talking in class! Harvey Proctor. Hit kids with metal ruler once for every item they forgot to bring to class. We learned fast. Mr Bowman, chemistry teacher. No control resulted in class scumbags making a gas chamber under desks! Then there was Don Thompson THM (rumour was that the letters stood for Tile Hill Mafia) who was completely bonkers. One edict was that ‘boys must not wear coloured underwear’ and he went around checking. Many years later I was told that he had been forced to retire by the board of Governors on grounds of insanity. But I don’t know if that was true. (-:

Hi Woodland Survivor, welcome to the forum.

Reading through this old post made me recall Woodlands swimming pool (to which I must have donated at least £1 towards its construction in the early 60's) being so frozen over that Colin Dick (art teacher) was actually ice skating on it. Post copied from topic Coventry swimming pools & swimmers on 19th Oct 2022 11:21 am

I hated it, Mick. Don Thompson seen here making sure everyone froze.