![]() ![]() Whilst the rest of the staff give the new head a standing ovation, Straitley feels as though he’s listened to the sort of speech that’s …shot through with that self-deprecating charm that only the most dangerous of politicians can manage.īetween the present day chapters are diary entries from 1981 written by someone in Straitley’s form and addressed to Mousey. Like all new heads, Harrington’s set on further changes: a paper-free office environment, staff workstations in the staff Quiet Room, and – much to Straitley’s horror – consolidated Sixth Form classes with Mulberry House, a girls’ school. My nemesis my bête noire the boy who almost cost me my job and cost the School a whole lot more. This disruption is bad enough but then Straitley realises that he knows the new head because twenty years ago he was in his tutor group. …all three smart and so well pressed you could have cut yourself on the creases. The term begins with significant change: a crisis head has been brought in with his own team. He intended to retire at the end of the previous academic year but fears his subject will disappear from the curriculum as soon as he’s gone.īesides, what would I do without the perpetual soap opera of St Oswald’s to sustain me? And my boys – my Brodie Boys – who else but I could look after them? Almost 66 and with 102 terms at the school completed, Straitley’s practically part of the furniture. Our guide is Roy Straitley, Head of Classics. ![]() We’re invited inside the walls of St Oswald’s Grammar School for Boys, West Yorkshire, at the beginning of the autumn term, 2005. ![]()
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