Re: O/T Wigan area : Sat Jan 07, 2012 11:46 am  

ROBINSON wrote:

A certain Stuart Cummings was our games teacher, and really not the t055er people seem to make him out to be.

Wow I never actually knew that!

Re: O/T Wigan area : Sat Jan 07, 2012 12:36 pm  

Horatio Yed wrote:

I thought Deanery was Wigans premier school?

It was in my day.

Re: O/T Wigan area : Sat Jan 07, 2012 12:42 pm  

ROBINSON wrote:

A certain Stuart Cummings was our games teacher, and really not the t055er people seem to make him out to be.

One of our PE teachers at Hawkley Hall was Jeff Clare. His favourite story was how he scored the first ever 4-point try. He was a nice bloke who once got David Lyon to come down and take us for a rugby lesson.

Re: O/T Wigan area : Sat Jan 07, 2012 12:45 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

One of our PE teachers at Hawkley Hall was Jeff Clare. His favourite story was how he scored the first ever 4-point try. He was a nice bloke who once got David Lyon to come down and take us for a rugby lesson.

My mate never shuts up about Jeff Clare.

He was a Hawkley pupil to and every time you mention PE he will discuss (at length) what a superb teacher Jeff Clare was.

Re: O/T Wigan area : Sat Jan 07, 2012 12:48 pm  

tugglesf78 wrote:

My mate never shuts up about Jeff Clare.
He was a Hawkley pupil to and every time you mention PE he will discuss (at length) what a superb teacher Jeff Clare was.

We were lucky in that we had two great teachers who knew what they were doing but were a great laugh at the same time. In my last year we had a reet bell who spent the entire hour perving on lasses while we were sent off towards Three Sisters on cross-country jaunts.

Re: O/T Wigan area : Sat Jan 07, 2012 12:49 pm  

Our rugby teacher was Mike Hancock, apparently an ex semi pro with Swinton, very good teacher but very regimental, he was always making you do press ups or star jumps or sit ups if you spoke when he did or didn't do something right. The worst was in winter doing rugby on a muddy pitch "20 forward rolls" he'd shout and your head would be filthy and cold with all the mud and water on it.

Re: O/T Wigan area : Sat Jan 07, 2012 3:01 pm  

My most memorable PE teacher at Rose Bridge was and old Aussie fella called Mr Sonerson. Apparently he was one a full time NRL player back in the day.

My year was full of wendy ball wannabes and each lesson he would ask for the vote on what game we would play. Football would pull in about 20 votes and RL would pull in 2 (from me and my mate). After Mr Sonerson had counted the votes and witnessed the overwhelming footballing majority, he would always say "right you little poofta's, Rugger it is!"

Re: O/T Wigan area : Sat Jan 07, 2012 3:02 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

We were lucky in that we had two great teachers who knew what they were doing but were a great laugh at the same time. In my last year we had a reet bell who spent the entire hour perving on lasses while we were sent off towards Three Sisters on cross-country jaunts.

What age are you?.

You tell a similar story to my Mate. Might be the same year.

Re: O/T Wigan area : Sat Jan 07, 2012 4:08 pm  

Winstanley got best A level results last year in the whole country therefore regardless of people wanting their kids (most are 18 btw so not kids) mollycoddled. Your there to learn not be looked after. Personally, the tutors at Winstanley were great for me

Re: O/T Wigan area : Sat Jan 07, 2012 4:14 pm  

cherryandwhitedavid06 wrote:

Winstanley got best A level results last year in the whole country therefore regardless of people wanting their kids (most are 18 btw so not kids) mollycoddled. Your there to learn not be looked after. Personally, the tutors at Winstanley were great for me

I hope you didn't study English.