"Around the Forms......."

One major section of the Tower Magazine, each year, was the section on Around the Forms, which was written by the form members themselves. They contain names that many people will remember.

1959 Edition

On Mr. Clements' register, Number 7 is Bromage, the top in our exams. Number 9 is Butlin who is famous for his boxing skill. He is also captain of the first-year rugby team. We have a group of bird-watchers headed by Brian Cave. The group includes Markstein, Shaw, Rodhouse, Wills, Adhemar and Finlay. Our class is full of interesting boys and it would take all day to tell about them.

A.S.

Our neatest individual has a sharply-pressed suit and dazzling shoes (until he reaches the classroom). For a striking contrast, our laziest boy (whose name I do not mention as I value my life) has slovenly habits, hair like rusty barbed wire, and a hobby of concocting strange, unearthly solutions in bottles. There are also boys who strike a mean between these two extremes.

A.B.

Our form room is Room 1 and our form master is Mr. Gibson. In sport, we have done very well. We managed to beat ID at cross-country but we lost to them at seven-a-side rugby. In class-work, we have done fairly well and two of our boys went up to 1B. The person who has the most sense of humour is Deacon who keeps our class in a good mood.

R.B.

Firstly, we congratulate David Bissonet on his promotion to 1C. We were all sorry to lose him. 1D has quite a good rugger team and Colin Osborne, Derek Austin, Leonard McCaughey and David Hawney have all played for the Under 13's. Our best athletes and gymnasts are James Boughton, Derek Austin, Roger Quennell and Leonard McCaughey

We find General Science very interesting. We were sorry to lose Mr. Jury, our Maths teacher, at Easter. Most of the class likes English. Mr. Crick, our teacher, lets us record quizzes on the tape recorder. But we don't like learning poetry. We look forward to Art and Music periods and enjoy gramophone records and singing songs. In Art, we have done pottery, lino-cuts, clay models and paintings.

Our history book, " The Story of the Ancient World," is very interesting and deals with the period from the Stone Age to the most modern Romans. We have had two Geography teachers, Mr. Harris and Mr. Gibson, and we have studied the county of Northamptonshire, Ordnance Survey Signs and maps.

M.B.

Room 5, on the second floor, is occupied by 1F. We are friendly and talkative and we love sports. A few of us are exceptionally good-looking but we are not always as good and well-behaved as we look. Miss Rudling is unfortunate enough to have to look after such a mischievous form but she is friendly and helpful and well-liked.

Y.C.

The Needlework Room is 1G's form room. Most of us are friendly and we are probably the talking champions of the school. Margaret Patching and Barbara Wilimott are the best at Gym and Games. Some of us are fairly brainy like Christine Harding. Miss Clothier is unlucky to be our form mistress because we are very talkative as I said before.

Y.B.

We live in Room 10 which is on the third floor of the Tower Block. It contains 31 inhabitants and our form teacher is Senor Bamber who teaches us Spanish. The form includes some interesting members in Pat, who only wakes up in time to eat, and Rosemary who hibernates from time to time.

J.C. J.B.

2A's abode is Room 8. The form's main occupation is writing lines or essays which our teachers always seem to be giving us. Macready is a mechanical minded menace who is always thinking up some gadget or other to the discomfort of other people. The brainiest boy is a bespectacled lad called Rooke. In this collection of little animals, called a class, is the Captain of the Under 13 rugger team, and several other rugger players. The form captain is a tousled little boy called Brown and in the orchestra is Robertson with a violin.

R.J., M.K.

In Room 12, there are 34 pupils-11 girls and 23 boys. Mr. Nokes is our form-master. The comics of the class are Shaw, Valerie Titmus and Hawksworth. The best one in the Gym is Kent and the best one at Games is Asbrey, who is the form captain, also. The best sports girl is Pauline Malin.

P.H., R.A.

SPORT We are proud to say that there are six boys from 2C in the Under 13 rugby team. Also, there are quite a few 2C boys who can swim, and we have five boys who entered for the pole-vaulting in the school sports.

PETS L. Sloan and P. Murphy both have two rabbits. M. Batt has two white mice “Snowy" and “Silver". M. McMahon keeps a white hamster.

GOSSIP. J. Hundley was given a new bike - and didn't we know it! During the year, we received two new members to the happy band- G. Sims and L. Smith from 2B.

P.H.

1960 Edition

We inhabit Room 7 and we are a very talented lot. Our honourable members include Stephanie Northover, who won the first year's handwriting prize; Jennifer Heard, who presented a bouquet to Miss Madge, the lady speaker on Speech Day; and Susan Berrill who read the Bible at the Carol Service. At Christmas, eleven girls performed an interesting dance, some of us sang in the first year choir, and some of us were in the School Choir (not forgetting Rosemary Coe and Judith Betts who puffed away at recorders). Dawn Wilson played the part of the nurse in the play. Our class contains seven Susans - if that doesn't confuse the teachers, nothing will.

C.M.G.

Our cell is Room 10 on the fourth floor of the dreaded Tower Block. Littlewood came top in the exams. Our best swimmer is Barnes and our best runners are Jackson and Hicks. Our star rugger players are Haynes, Jackson, Chivers, Barnes and Sanders. Jones, Stanton and Worrall are all in the choir. Sanders is the chief comic and Mr. Bamber is our warder.

D.C.

Our form room is the Music Room and our form master is Mr. Chesters. We were all very sorry to lose our English and Maths teachers, Mr. Matthews and Mrs. Delahunty respectively.

We are quite good at Sport and the lessons we like best are, of course, Games and P.E., but most of us think General Science is very interesting.

The class has some very interesting specimens-including five girls.

H.J.L

Our form inhabits Room 2 and our form-master is Mr. Crick. We have two good runners -Stringer and Taylor- and we are pretty good on the rugger field. Clarkson came top in the exams.

M.W.W., P.D.B.

Our form's abode is Room 12 and the form-master is Mr. Smithurst, the gallant goalkeeper of the Staff's hockey team. Peploe has won many competitions in singing, Jones is an astronomer, Cave is an ornithologist and there are others with such hobbies as swimming, music, cycling and camping. Bromage came top in all the exams and Smith and Butlin are good rugger players (both have been captain of their team). Essam is very good at jumping and sprinting and Bird holds the record for the junior High Jump.

J.E.E.

Our habitat is the General Science Laboratory. There are 33 of us, plus two goldfish and two mice, and also tiddlers and tadpoles in the season. Mr. Timms is our form-master. Barringer, Brown and Richardson are our star gymnasts and Barringer is also a good boxer: he won his bout in the Inter-House Boxing Competition. Hall came top in the exams and Meakins is our best songster.

We would like to congratulate Bissonnet, Bradbury and Nutter on winning prizes. Barringer, Brown, Hall and England played for the Under 13 XY. Clayton represented the School in the Inter-Schools' Cross-Country Championship. John Child built a wireless set in his spare time. It works!

J.D.I. I.E.B.

Our domain is Room 1. We have comics such as McDougall and Weller (Sam) and a good sports' section with such fellows as Fox, Clarke, Kirby, Boughton and Harris.

A.J.W.

We would like to congratulate Boyce on coming top of the form. We have quite a good rugger team and Osborne, D. Johnson, Farmer, Derek Austin, Pacey, Kelly, and McCormac, have all played for the Under 13 teams. D. Johnson and McCormac both played for the School in the Six-a-Side Tournament at Bective.

G.R.P.

We hibernate in the Art Room amongst abstract masterpieces and complicated mosaics. Here, under the guidance of Mr. Adams, we develop such characters as Christine Harding, the comic, and Diane Guest, a languages expert. Exams are our most dreaded prospect and, when they are nearing, we are busily engaged in revising the knowledge we should know (but don't). Still, at the moment, we are pleasantly free from such anxieties.

V.A.C., S.L.W.

Our room is the Craft Room and our form-master is Mr. Major. As a form we have a finger in every pie. We have several would-be serenading angels in the School Choir and, since the Junior Dramatics Club started in September, we have had a few aspiring actresses, some of whom starred in the play in the Christmas Concert. Unfortunately, only one girl received a prize on Speech Day, Janet Marriott.

P.E.G.

We are patients in Emergency Ward 5. The Sister on duty is Miss Rudling. Those of us who suffer from brain-fatigue spend most of the time sleeping. Audrey Chamberlain is the most out-standing patient and received a prize on the Hospital Speech Day.

J.M.B.

Our fold is No. 9 and our philosopher and guide is Mr. Hogg, who frequently terminates our frolics and gambols in the sunshine. Our two blackest sheep are Brown and Calder, who spend much time planning and performing experiments calculated to bring discomfort to their unfortunate victims.

Our form does not shine at athletics although the majority of us have stronger leanings in that direction than towards any other side of schooling. Asbrey is the ablest athlete and R. Jones has collected as many black eyes in the boxing-ring as he has donated. In a pen of many dodgers, the one who gets the least reward for his efforts is Mace. Robertson, who is our violinist, has a sweet voice and rumour has it that Craddock is musically gifted. Turner aspires to become a Professor of English.

N.J.B.C. R.J.

We reside in Room 8, which is open at all times to anyone who dares put a foot over the threshold. Last year, the Under 14 XV consisted almost entirely of 3B members, including the captain, S. Wright. The cricket team had also quite a few members of our form. Jennifer Thornton excels in most subjects and the comics are Jackson, Pope and Valerie Titmus.

A. D. S.

3C is a well-disciplined form under the leadership of R. Nickolls. We have many rugby players; the most outstanding are Winkworth, Gregory and McMahon. The other type of football is often discussed in 3C and its ablest practitioners are Nickolls, Sloan and Hundley.

H.W.K.

1961 Edition

Our form room is the Craft Room and our form-master is Mr. Major. There are 25 of us. Carol Isaacs won the first year handwriting prize and also came top in the exams. Cynthia Turner came second and is very talented in drawing. Rosemary Summerford, Susan Wright and Marilyn Murray are the songsters of the class.

C.A.B.

In a neat little room with a 5 on the door can be found thirty little boys with angelic faces. If only they were as innocent as they look! The two angels who shine most in the gym are Foster and Johnson. Judd is our best runner. Harrington's halo shines brighter than any other and he flew highest in the exams.

J.N.W.R.

We inhabit Room 1 and our form-master is Mr. Burgess who, by some phenomenal act of fate, has survived the last three terms. We have a few good gymnasts, especially Gordon and Withers. Thornton won a cup in the Inter-House Boxing Tournament. None of us won this year's handwriting prize, but that was because we wanted to give the other forms a chance.

J.A.N.

This form occupies Room 7 and consists of eleven girls and twelve boys under the guidance of Mr. Syer. Diana Dodge-Johnson is top of the form. Martin Earle is the Under-12 one-length breast stroke champion of Northampton. Some of our girls took part in the Christmas Concert.

J.J.H.

Our camp is Room 12 and our 'trail boss ' is Miss Rudling. For certain “shifts”, our eight cooks leave us and we are joined by eight boys from 2AL.

We have many artists in our midst, including several ballet stars, and philatelists by the dozen. No-one could say we shine at our work-the only problem we work at is the hibernation one. Our sporty types include Susan Cotter, who is a splendid high-jumper, and Lesley Smith, who is our star runner. Rosemary Coe is top of the form.

C.M.G.

2 A

Our dwelling in the General Science Lab contains 31 intelligent pupils under the fatherly eye of Mr. Timms. We are very versatile. McLellan and Verity have given talks to the Science Club; White, Ward, March, Jones and Verity took part in the Christmas play; Jones, Jackson, Hubbard, Luck, Morris and Paige have played for the Under 13 team; Verity is in the School Orchestra; and Littlewood, White, Taylor, Dillon and York have won prizes. Littlewood came top in the exams.

Out of school, Littlewood and Civil won awards in the Eisteddfod for playing the piano, whilst Hanwell, Westley and McLellan delve into the mysteries of Radio. Cookson was in the Carnival Parade.

We are the only form with a form magazine. For 2d. you can read the efforts of Westley, Jones, MeLellan, Jackson and Verity. Can we blow our own trumpet? You bet!

M.R.V.

Form 2M occupies the Music Room and we have six female specimens in the form. The rest are boys. Garlick came top in the last exam with Burdett second. Our best rugger players are Barnes, Chivers, Dorr, Duff, Giles, Haynes, Snedker, Middleton, Wilkinson and Wimpress. Barnes is our best swimmer, and Wilkinson the best sprinter. We were sorry to lose Mr. Chesters but pleased to welcome Mr. Bertalot.

G.A.G.

Form 2C occupies Room 2 on the first floor of the Tower Block. Our form-master, Mr. Crick, keeps the unruly mob in very good order.

Eleven boys have played at least once for the Under 13 rugger team. Taylor, who is the best boxer of the class, won a medal in the School Boxing Contest. Roden is the comic of the class with his funny little jokes. The class includes a group of loco-spotters consisting of Johnson, Forskitt, Bedwell and Gauld.

R.A.S.

There are many things to be said both for and against us. Bromage, Shaw and Hall won prizes on Speech Day. Quite a few of us play for the Under 14 team, including Butlin, the captain, who led the team to victory in the Collier Cup. He, and a few others, have also played for the Under 15 team. There are quite a few in the form who talk of the other kind of football and Arthur Smith has played for Northampton Boys' Team.

M.J.F.

In a lonely outpost of the Tower, thirty-four boys stand guard over Room 6. Each pupil has his own story to tell. Half of them live in a make-believe world. Jim Sullivan acts like a hired gunslinger, always gunning for the person who invented French, and George Sullivan thinks that the only people on earth are Welsh. A certain Mr. Wood takes Horlicks for an undisturbed sleep during Maths.

P.S.B.

This form report could be a very lengthy one for, in our room, the Language Room, there are many things going on behind the closed door. There is a secret society, the “Boys," led by a character called Thorneycroft. We have brainy boys, such as Bonham, who came top in the last examination. Also we have our athletes: Mills and Kirby are the two runners of the class, and Clarke, Bell, Harris and Roberts are good performers in the Pole Vault, Discus and Javelin events.

R. S.

In 3D we have many different specimens of humanity. There is, for example, Pete Miller who is scientifically known as 'motorcyclus maniacus'. Other well-known varieties are Andy Kelly -'the garage bug'-and Mick Pepper, the pilot who never leaves the ground (he flies control-line model aircraft).

W e do not exactly shine at Rugger, but some of those who do sometimes exert themselves are 'Twink' Austin, Kev McCormac, Andy Kelly and 'Ossie'. But most of us favour the round ballgame. Johnson and McCormac have had a trial for the Town Boys' Soccer Team and were accepted.

Several boys of the form featured in the gymnastic display in the Christmas Concert. We congratulate Alcock on coming top of the form. On Speech Day, G. Churchill had much pleasure in receiving a progress prize.

R.C.T.

Our form room is the Art Room where we rest our weary bodies amid paints, crayons and drawing boards. The walls surrounding our abode are covered by masterpieces created by some of the would-be artists in the School.

Mr. Adams is our form-master and he is trying (unsuccessfully) to turn us into good-mannered young ladies. We are a very talkative form; but we all try to work hard (at times). When the exams come, we all lock ourselves up in our various abodes and swot. Seven of the Under 15 Hockey Team are in our form and they come to School in the worst kind of weather to play. We were sorry to lose some of our classmates at the end of the last Summer Term.

C. H., R. H.

In this form there are 34 mischievous girls and we reside in the Geography Room, where Mrs. Hogg does her best to keep us under control.

Two girls received prizes on Speech Day: Sandra Perrin and Janet Marriott, both of whom came to us from 3F.

Amongst us we have a few girls who are good at sports. On Sports Day, a few of our girls who competed were placed.

J.A.G., S.M.R.

We contaminate the Needlework Room which is situated in a perfect position for sunbathing-when the sun shines. Our kind psychiatrist is Mrs. Watson, who is also training us, slowly and painfully, to sew. None of us particularly like work, but the majority enjoy playing games-especially rounders, when we have our own rules. The less said about individual members of our form, the better; but one thing is common to us all-we love school.

Anita Cawley and Carol Giles won prizes at our last Sports Day. Anita is also the brains of the form and is the only one who does not have to visit our psychiatrist at regular intervals. Well, we must close now for fear of exerting ourselves; it is also time for ‘Workers' Playtime’.

J.C.B., M.Y.W.

Our eyrie is Room 9 where we have been under the surveillance of Mr. Hogg for the last six terms. Our form-master combines the eye of an eagle with the memory of an elephant; and our past demeanours are frequently “misused in evidence against us."

Rooke and Farey are the most academically able boys of the form: it is rumoured that they have at least one examination's swotting always in hand. We hear that Pomeroy has expressed a desire to become an ambulance driver; whilst we applaud his humanitarianism, we ought to point out that he will certainly have to be a little less forgetful and much more punctual. Denny, who will probably enter the Army at the end of the term, will lose both his long vacation and his lustrous locks.

B.L.B.

Whilst we were in the third year, our form made many enemies. Probably it is because of this that we have Mr. Hartwell for a form-master again this year. We thank him very much, and would like to take this chance to say how courageous he is.

The female members of the form include Lesley Smith and Pauline Malin, who are good at sports, and several other unlikely characters. Jennifer Thornton and P. King both received prizes on Speech Day.

The male population of the class is mainly part-time and includes the class vampire and chief comedian, T. Shaw, who will be following P. Holden into the army. B. Tuckley, S. Wright and R. Kent are best at games, and the girls excel the boys in all subjects, except woodwork and metalwork.

We have in our form an inhabitant of a remote tropical island. She arrived here one day by mistake and, although her style of dress was considered somewhat bizarre, we have come to realise that even tropical islanders can be very nice.

J.T., P. K.

Our form (Room 14) is the crowning glory of the Tower Block. Set in the picturesque scenery of ink stains and chalk dust, we thrive on sport of various varieties. The football team has, according to its captain, R. Webster, won seven games in a row. As far as rugby is concerned, we have eight players who have played, at onetime or another this year, in the Under 15 team; these are such unlikely characters as Gregory, George, Winkworth, Harris, Ganley, Mulcahy, Stewart and Tingley.

G. R. S., P. C. E. G.

1962 Edition

2
If you search among the pots and clay animals of the Craft Room, you will find twenty-five apprentice potters under the watchful eye of master craftswoman, Miss Stroud. Leader of our Apprentice Potters' Union is Carol Isaacs and at our union meetings, which, incidentally, occur eight times a day, Christine Boddington and Pat Major are the chief spokeswomen. Although we occasionally feel like striking, we are generally quite pleased with the management of the workshop.

J.D.

2A
2A abides in the General Science Laboratory among skeletons, fish, test-tubes, bunsen burners and a forest of other indescribable objects. Among these you may find twenty-seven intelligent boys under the stern eye of Mr. Timms. Slinn came top in the Christmas exams, with Harding and Harrington second and third. Ten of us were in the Under 13 rugby team: Horne, Judd, Green, Ireson, Williams, Roberts, Johnson, Barber, Spring (captain) and Kemp. The athletes in the class are, Williams, Johnson and Judd. Spring is a keen ornithologist; Bland and Harrington are in the School Choir, and Spring and Barringer are ardent phillumenists.

R.W.J.

2B
The scene ... Room 5; the crime ... murder; the criminal ... Mr. Burgess; the motive ... self preservation; the victims ... 2B. Gough died from an electric shock from his home-made radio; Ashby and Stewart, the astronomers, died when a star fell on their heads; Gordon died of laughter when Mr. Burgess cracked a ruler across a desk and it broke in half. Foster, the king of 2B, was assassinated. Parker died of fatigue after coming first in the exams. Page, the aero-modeller, had his arm pulled off by a high-powered, control-line model, and the lynching party of train spotters were never seen again after a day trip to London. As for the rest, there is a blood-red streak smothering the car-park.

C.R.A.

2M
Amidst tapestries and masterpieces sleep a very contented band. When they have a mad spell, Martin Botteril, Jack Lear and Belinda Woodcock excel in athletics, and Hitchcock in a show of intelligence. The clown of the class is Nigel Davis who reached the finals of the Boxing Tournament, only to be beaten by a first year boy. Mr. Adams is, as all form masters should be, our master-craftsman.

A.G.H.

3
We have twisted away the past year in Room 12 without wearing out either the linoleum or Mrs. Queenborough! Just lately we have become more civilised, though an outsider might not realise it from the various quaint hairstyles that appear. Jennifer Cansdale and Rosemary Coe gained form prizes. Susan Harris won second prize in an art competition and Carol Gibson has written an interesting novel.
The whole class has recently fallen madly in love with Dr. Kildare, except for a few who prefer Northampton Romeos.

J.K.H.

3A
At the beginning of the school year, worried officials decided, in sheer desperation, to cast us into the remote and dark dungeon of S1 with Mr. Wailer -who was the only warder with enough courage to take us on.
The intellectuals of the form are Littlewood and Taylor; Jones and Luck are good rugby players; Jackson and Daley are our athletes, and Snedker is our gymnast.

M.V., R.F.B., C.H.

3C
We inhabit Room 7 although, for many of us, Room 2 seems more like home. Our warder is Mr. Meadows. Stringer, with many others from the form, shines at sport; two of our inmates won prizes at the School Speech Day. Most of us still like to spend the day sleeping.

R.D.

3M
In Cell 6 of the dreaded Tower Block there are thirty-two of us doing twelve months hard (academic) labour. We hope Poynton escaped successfully to Hong Kong, and welcome our new member, Currie.

Our chief warder, Mr. Chater, controls us with a firm but fatherly hand, and we voted R. Barnes as form captain, but sometimes wish we hadn't. We are proud of our sporting element; Paige, Wimpress, Dorr, Duff, Hubbard and Giles, who play in the Under 15 Rugger Team.

Amongst our members is a minority of six specimens of the opposite sex, who brighten the monotony of our lives. We are glad they are becoming obedient and punctual as their attitude to this has puzzled us, and, anyway, it upsets our chief warder, which is bad for all of us.

M.W.

4A
There are thirty-one boys in our form, which is based in Room 10. Many of us do well at sport; nine of the Under-15 rugby team are members of the class and we also boast five of the six-a-side soccer team which won the Manfield Hotspur Cup, five of the basket ball team and seven members of the cricket teams. Others in the form have outside hobbies. Cave is an ornithologist and Chillingsworth, Warren and Wills obtain joy at hanging worms without a trial, just so that they can catch two or three little fish which they immediately throw back. In the academic field, Bromage still reigns supreme champion.

P. F.

4B
This outpost (Room 14) of the Tower is manned mainly by a company of morons who search Olde English Engine Sheds in search of elusive engine-numbers. They are kept under observation by the suspicious eye of Mr. Hill. Included in their midst are a fanatical Welshman, who thinks that anthracite and leeks are the only things worth living for, and Whiteman, England, Sullivan and Kirby-the only rugger types, as the rest of the form are always tired after walking up 498 steps every day. All their futures are settled; they have agreed to join the Communist Party.

P. R. M., P. S. B.

4C
Our form may look unruly, but most of us have some inclination to work, mainly in short spasms prior to exams. We dwell in the Language Room with our Form Master, Mr. Fellowes.

We have some good athletes, such as Thorneycroft, Bell and Harris. Clarke set up a new pole-vault record of 8'-7". There are some strange characters, one of whom is almost a walking juke-box. The Brain of the class is Hawney, who came top in the Christmas exams.

M. E., C. C.

4D
If you force your way into Room 11, you will find yourself with 4D. Most of the class are keen footballers and always watch the 'Cobblers'. Kelley and Farmer played for the Under 15 rugger team and Johnson and Osborne played for the school six-a-side tournament at Bective. 'Enoch' Buthee is the bright lad of the form., Deacons, Thake, Kelly and Miller are the motorbike enthusiasts. The class mascot is Marks who is a keen train-spotter.

D. J., A. K.

4F
Our form, a beautiful bunch of flowers, lives in the Needlework Room, amid smells from the Chemistry Lab. and the Kitchen. Despite our constant appearance of tiredness we take quite a large part in school life. We boast ten of the school's twenty-two hockey team and players and several of us belong to the Tennis Club. Our 'bright spark' is Suzanne Withington who, with Judith Merrirnan, won a prize on Speech Day.

K.A., J.G., M.E.E., J.H.

4G
We are still in the Geography Room under Mrs. Hoggs' charge and remain a thorn in the side of the Staff. In an endeavour to get rid of some of us, Mr. Bamber tried to leave us in Spain but, unfortunately, all who went returned safely. Six girls took part in the Sports, and Margaret Patching and Tina Lilley won prizes at Speech Day. Seven girls have left since September, and two more, Carol Wilson and Sheila Markie, plan to leave in July, to go into Hairdressing.

P. G.

5
We thirty-four darlings occupy Room 15 which, being the 'Room at the Top', keeps us in trim. We are divided into the Commerce Section (with fingers glued to the typewriter keys, which make a melodious (?) sound) and the Grammar Section (which is the most gifted academically (?). We spend almost all our time in front of mirrors, trying, in vain, to keep up with the latest hair-styles, which we maintain and protect with school hats. We have a Sports Day cup-winner, a Judo enthusiast, many budding typists and a few Florence Nightingales in our form.

S.W.

5A
For sale. One very high-class form with built-in mathematical genius and all-round athlete for form-master and such amenities as Dayies, our cockney friend. Part-time schoolboy, Else, in violation of all Union Rules, is now working a three-day-week. Straight from Savile Row, there is Shipman, elegantly dressed in his Co-op jeans and ex-Navy duffle coat. On the economic front we have Barry Druker who is a potential Friendly Loan Company Manager. Resident play-boy is Farey who has a carefree, happy-go-lucky attitude to his work and leads the 'bad element' of the class. Admirers of our form will be delighted to know that it will remain virtually intact next year, ready, once again, to mount the stairs of learning.

R.J., B.L.B.

5C
Our form room is the Drawing Office; our form-master, Mr.Clarke. Many of us play a great deal of soccer-some playing for local youth teams. George, Harris and Winkworth are all members of the First Rugger XV, and Tingley plays basketball for Mobbs House. A number are highly successful athletes.
Six boys are stopping on next year to further their education in the Sixth Form.

R. H., G. S.

5M
Up in room 8, we had, until Christmas, when our electrically-minded menace Macready left us, twenty-seven bodies. Nine of these are of the fairer sex, one of them training for Epsom. Our form beauty, Diane Fellowes, was given that title by our form master, Mr. Hartwell. Among the boys we have two part-timers, and one who does not come. There is also a collection of weird nicknames: 'Piff', ' Gaz', 'Angus', 'Camel', 'Bouncer' and 'The Scarf '!
Top of the form was Jennifer Thornton; Foley is taking the most G.C.E's. At Speech Day, Astley, Gillian Bull and J. Thornton received prizes. In the school Rugby team we had Wright, Tuckley and Mawby. We also have a few footballers in the class, who play for Northampton Trinity: Timms, Heath, Astley, Kent, King and Goodman.

J. M.

6R
We must be the most enterprising form in the whole of the School's history. So far we have had: two money lending companies; one lonely hearts bureau; a shove-halfpenny league, won by Brabbins, who kindly donated the cup; one pet spider (Treganaria Atrica) commonly known as "Fred"; and last and by all means least, five prefects.

The genii of 6R, who are too modest to mention that their names are Clements, Mason and Gibbons, are the organisers of the form's notorious exploits. The most brilliant, handsome, popular member of the class is Yerkess, who has just pinned us to the wall with an intricate piece of pickaxe throwing. McDonald (who wishes to remain anonymous) is perhaps our most cultured member, being called upon several times to give his rendering of hymns in Assembly.

In conclusion, a few words about Mr. Linnel, who is the best (and only) form teacher that the present 6R has had.

R.L.C., B.G.

LOWER SIXTH MODERN, TECHNICAL, ETC.
The class consists of ten pupils - three boys and seven girls - and generally resides in Room 13, which has not, as yet, proved unlucky. V. Rhoades and V. Humber are the most athletic girls but P. Dickens also has held records for certain events on Sports Day. V. Humber is captain of the Hockey Team, in which V. Rhoades, who gained a cup on Sports Day, also plays. P. Thomas is captain of the School Rugby Team. F. Palmer is the musician of the form and plays the clarinet with a number of orchestras. E. Merry and L. Rixon are the domestic 'bods' of the form and specialize in boiled water. We are all presided over and kept in trim by Mr.Meldrum, who finds the task never-ending.

L. C. R.

LOWER SIXTH SCIENCE
Having suffered the unfortunate loss of Messrs. Bamford and Tilson, who left us to pursue some sordid pastime called work, we are seventeen. Among us, we have such oddities as: Algy Roberts, who spends most of his time modelling for scissor-shy barbers; Roger Barnes, who could be found standing on Hyde Park Corner, in the middle of December, campaigning for brighter cricket; George Brutnall, the radio fanatic who lives in a world of double diodes, rectifiers and tuning condensers; and Johnny Tero, the brains of the form, who does extremely well in exams, and even managed to fiddle four medals on Sports Day.

We are kept in order by Mr. Guffog, whose Bilko-style wise-cracks are sometimes appreciated.

A.W.M.

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