What is your favorite memory of
Walkden High School?
Old friends and past students of Walkden High School welcomed by Mr Taylor (Acting Headteacher)
Thank you to all those ex-Walkden High Students who came to look around and reminisce over our ‘open days’. We asked you to tell us your favorite memories of Walkden high School?....
- “Having to wear big blue knickers for P.E” (unknown)
- “I enjoyed being a prefect and I’ve still got my prefect badge!” (Grace Kay)
- “Working in the Library was good fun” (Grace Mulhall and Susan Rutter)
- “Crawling through the cellar to the boys side of the school to listen to their conversations” (unknown)
- “There were good sports teams. I was head boy from 1972-1973” (Rev. Fr. Geoff Hilton)
- “Playing for the Football Team, I really enjoyed Music class. I remember looking down the long empty corridors” (Richard Dolby)
- “Sports Day” (Bernard Burry)
- “Making friends and singing in assemblies” (Linda Titlow and Marine Craudace)
- “English call with Mr. Unsworth.” (Angela Dolby)
- “Being on all the sports teams” (Ann Mcglynn)
- “Reading my poem in front of all the school” (Sheila Eckersley)
- “I wish I had listened” (Vivienne Whatmough)
- “Being with my friends, just having a laugh” (Gemma Bertemshaw)
- “The first day of school, when we met each other. We are still friends now.” (Lauren O’Connor and Collette Thorpe)
- “Meeting friends that have lasted for years” (Claire Pollard)
- “Cookery. The ice cream van. Meeting the boys at lunch”
- “My teachers, they were wonderful and inspiring” (Natalie Hogg)
- “Needlework. History with Mr. Pratt” (Pamela Booth)
- “Exocentric teachers. I spent the best days of my life in this school” (Gail Tyldesley)
- “Sports Day” (Graham Tyldesley)
- “Cookery” (Janet Pearson)
- “Being made to wear a board saying “I am disruptive“ whenever I was naughty” (unknown)
- “Being walked to the East Lanks to witness the opening” (unknown)
- “Doing my painting that I just saw on the wall that I did in year 8” (unknown)
- “Scary hockey teacher (Miss Fairhurst)” (unknown)
- “Elections for prefects” (unknown)
- “All of it” (Sheila Slater)
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