coquet high school hadstone

[amble]

any members go to coquet high school when was at hadstone 1980

[John@theDrift]

Yes, yes, I did. I think we were the last ones before Amble school was built

[Parsonx]

Originally Posted by amble

any members go to coquet high school when was at hadstone 1980

Was its former name South Broomhill secondary modern
? if so i attended there left in 1968.

[Rachel]

This was the school I went to, leaving in 1980, we were bussed in from Amble. Anyone remember when we raised loads of money to buy coffee machines etc but we never got to use them because they were installed in the new building at Amble?

Teachers I remember.

Mr Fisk - Head Teacher
Mrs Foggin -science
Mr Hazon -Physics
Mr Heaton -Chemistry
Mr Penter- Biology
Mr Bewick- Drama
Dapper Dan - History
Mr Caine - Geography
Mr Singh- Maths
Mrs Rochester -English
Mr Macquillin - Maths
Mr Wheeler- not sure what he did.
Mr Manion- Guidance
Miss Whitlock - French
Phylis the dinner ticket lady
Some others I can picture but names long forgotten.

[Coquet]

A few familar names in there from my days at Amble Modern

Mrs Foggin Physics
Mr and Mrs Turnbull History and...English?
Mr Cowan, English
Mr Richardson, English
Mrs Watson, (my favourite teacher) Biology
Mr Almond, Science
Arty Dawson (have a guess)
Mr Riddell PE
Ms Peacock
Mr and Mrs Macquillin (saved me from being a walking maths disaster)
Mr Locky, maths + Deputy Head
Tommy Harper, Metalwork
George Younger?, Geography
Mr Shawcross, Seamanship
Mrs Widdrington, French
Mrs Bell, not sure, might have been Domestic Science?


my mind's gone blank now

[Rachel]

I can remember most of those , especially Mr Richardson's slipper. Some of those teachers transferred to Hadston with us when we were shipped over there.
Can you remember Miss Stanton the music teacher? Mr Ord the woodwork guy?
Mr Almond, I recall, had a yellow mini, he did the Duke of Edinburgh Award camping trips up near Wooler, and bird watcing at Howick, both of which I did too.

[Coquet]

Yes that's two more, Mr Ord and Miss Stanton, woodwork and music.

I did a few backpacking trips with Mr Almond in the Cheviots.
Wooler to Broadstruther; an abandoned cottage in the hills. Then cross to the Cheviot and walk out via Langleeford and the Harthope valley. Ms Peacock came along once too.
There's a few crashed WW2 Planes around that area.

Mr Almond does local history talks now.

[Parsonx]

Originally Posted by Rachel

This was the school I went to, leaving in 1980, we were bussed in from Amble. Anyone remember when we raised loads of money to buy coffee machines etc but we never got to use them because they were installed in the new building at Amble?

Teachers I remember.

Mr Fisk - Head Teacher
Mrs Foggin -science
Mr Hazon -Physics
Mr Heaton -Chemistry
Mr Penter- Biology
Mr Bewick- Drama
Dapper Dan - History
Mr Caine - Geography
Mr Singh- Maths
Mrs Rochester -English
Mr Macquillin - Maths
Mr Wheeler- not sure what he did.
Mr Manion- Guidance
Miss Whitlock - French
Phylis the dinner ticket lady
Some others I can picture but names long forgotten.

Dapper Dan must be getting on a bit ,he was at South Broomhill when i left in 68

[Rachel]

Last night in a fit of nostalgia, I was going through all the names of people in the E2 year of 1980, the last to be at Hadston when it was Coquet High School. It's quite a list - 50 to 60 names, if anyone is interesred I 'll write them all down and post it.

[Tammy]

Originally Posted by amble

any members go to coquet high school when was at hadstone 1980

Hi I left Coquet High in 1980. 👧