{"id":67058,"date":"2015-01-01T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=67058"},"modified":"2024-03-21T14:49:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T14:49:02","slug":"loftus-schools-prize-pupils-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=67058","title":{"rendered":"Loftus School&#8217;s Prize Pupils 1965"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"8885\" height=\"6402\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img665-a-a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60529\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3868778280542986;width:804px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Loftus County Modern School Speech Day presentations by Alderman J. T. Fletcher; chairman of North Riding Education Committee. Mr Norminton commented that: \u201das it was easier for children to find jobs, parents were willing to leave them at school for an extra year.\u201d This in a period when jobs outnumbered school leavers. How times have changed!<\/strong><br><strong>Back row: Hazel Johnson, Mary Hall, David Hampton, Steven Partlett.<\/strong><br><strong>Front: Mr Harold Norminton (Headmaster), Annette Steyert, Alderman Fletcher, Colin Grout, Keith Fowle, Talbert Jackson.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Chris Colbeck commented: &#8220;Regarding the comment of the Headmaster. 1964  to 1965 was the first year when pupils could remain at school a further year and had an opportunity to sit exams for the Certificate of Secondary Education [CSE] which was a set little below the academic level of the GCE. Steve Partlett added: &#8220;Despite being in the photograph, I cannot remember why we were chosen! However, I suspect that the photograph was taken in the foyer at the bottom of the stairs to the 1st and 2nd floors. Almost opposite were some stairs to the basement; in the basement was the Prefect&#8217;s room, I suspect that this was emptied for the photograph! All those in the photograph were Prefects, with the exception of Hazel, who was Head Girl. At a guess the date is after Summer 1964 because in Summer 1965 some of those in the photograph left to attend Redcar Technical College for their fifth year.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Image courtesy of Jean Carass; also many thanks to Chris Colbeck, Steven Partlett, Eileen Found and Ann Jackson for the updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Loftus County Modern School Speech Day presentations by Alderman J. T. Fletcher; chairman of North Riding Education Committee. Mr Norminton commented that: \u201das it was easier for children to find jobs, parents were willing to leave them at school for an extra year.\u201d This in a period when jobs outnumbered school leavers. How [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loftus-seniorcounty-modern-school","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67058"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78438,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67058\/revisions\/78438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}