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[Chris]

R4’s Drama on 4, today. The History of Mr Polly (HG Wells), has Kenton’s
best friend playing Rumbold. I didn’t know that till the end.

I haven’t read it, it was a CSE title one of my friends studied and
enjoyed. I thought I’d give it a go. It hasn’t stood the test of time
any more than Wells’ “First Men in the Moon” which was a set book of mine
one year.

Mrs McT

[Nick Odell]

On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 16:26:09 -0000 (UTC), Chris

R4’s Drama on 4, today. The History of Mr Polly (HG Wells), has Kenton’s
best friend playing Rumbold. I didn’t know that till the end.
I haven’t read it, it was a CSE title one of my friends studied and
enjoyed. I thought I’d give it a go. It hasn’t stood the test of time
any more than Wells’ “First Men in the Moon” which was a set book of mine
one year.

Our maths teacher, Mr Scott, was my class teacher for a year or so and
would use the registration period in the morning to read to the class.
We listened to no end of interesting and entertaining stories, one of
which I remember was The History of Mr Polly. Now, I don't know if he
read us the whole book or if, perhaps like William Goldman's fictional
rewriting of fictional S Morgenstern's classic tale The Princess Bride
he just read "The History of Mr Polly - the best bits" but I enjoyed
it.

You always remember a good teacher and Mr Scott was most definitely a
good teacher. Apart from reading to us at registration, he had the
gift of making maths lessons both understandable and entertaining. He
also took some time out of the syllabus during the first year of our
A-level maths course to teach us about computer programming. This was
1966/7 so it was all very new stuff. By the end of a few weeks he'd
had us writing programs in assembly language, outsourced the punching
of paper tape and then taken us on an excursion to use the county's
"Educational Computer" to run our programs live. We really couldn't
have had a better start for the world that was about to come.

Nick

[BrritSki]

Post by Nick Odell
On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 16:26:09 -0000 (UTC), Chris

Post by Chris
R4’s Drama on 4, today. The History of Mr Polly (HG Wells), has Kenton’s
best friend playing Rumbold. I didn’t know that till the end.
I haven’t read it, it was a CSE title one of my friends studied and
enjoyed. I thought I’d give it a go. It hasn’t stood the test of time
any more than Wells’ “First Men in the Moon” which was a set book of mine
one year.

Our maths teacher, Mr Scott, was my class teacher for a year or so and
would use the registration period in the morning to read to the class.
We listened to no end of interesting and entertaining stories, one of
which I remember was The History of Mr Polly. Now, I don't know if he
read us the whole book or if, perhaps like William Goldman's fictional
rewriting of fictional S Morgenstern's classic tale The Princess Bride
he just read "The History of Mr Polly - the best bits" but I enjoyed
it.
You always remember a good teacher and Mr Scott was most definitely a
good teacher. Apart from reading to us at registration, he had the
gift of making maths lessons both understandable and entertaining. He
also took some time out of the syllabus during the first year of our
A-level maths course to teach us about computer programming. This was
1966/7 so it was all very new stuff. By the end of a few weeks he'd
had us writing programs in assembly language, outsourced the punching
of paper tape and then taken us on an excursion to use the county's
"Educational Computer" to run our programs live. We really couldn't
have had a better start for the world that was about to come.

We had a really good teacher (among many) called Scott at Grammar
School, but he was a history teacher. Every year in the summer term he
would take a party of fuzzers (our term for first years) on the train
from Coventry (the station was a short walk down the hill from school)
to Birmingham and then Dudley where we would walk to the Wren's Nest {1}
to look for fossils (hence Mr Scott's affectionate nickname.

I was very proud to have found a trilobite there which I still have
wrapped in cotton wool inside an old Swan Vesta matchbox. I was also
proud to be praised by Fossil for being the only boy able to identify a
coltsfoot flower. Happy days.

{1}
https://www.dudley.gov.uk/things-to-do/nature-reserves/wrens-nest-national-nature-reserve/

[Chris]

Post by BrritSki

Post by Nick Odell
On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 16:26:09 -0000 (UTC), Chris

Post by Chris
R4’s Drama on 4, today. The History of Mr Polly (HG Wells), has Kenton’s
best friend playing Rumbold. I didn’t know that till the end.
I haven’t read it, it was a CSE title one of my friends studied and
enjoyed. I thought I’d give it a go. It hasn’t stood the test of time
any more than Wells’ “First Men in the Moon” which was a set book of mine
one year.

Our maths teacher, Mr Scott, was my class teacher for a year or so and
would use the registration period in the morning to read to the class.
We listened to no end of interesting and entertaining stories, one of
which I remember was The History of Mr Polly. Now, I don't know if he
read us the whole book or if, perhaps like William Goldman's fictional
rewriting of fictional S Morgenstern's classic tale The Princess Bride
he just read "The History of Mr Polly - the best bits" but I enjoyed
it.
You always remember a good teacher and Mr Scott was most definitely a
good teacher. Apart from reading to us at registration, he had the
gift of making maths lessons both understandable and entertaining. He
also took some time out of the syllabus during the first year of our
A-level maths course to teach us about computer programming. This was
1966/7 so it was all very new stuff. By the end of a few weeks he'd
had us writing programs in assembly language, outsourced the punching
of paper tape and then taken us on an excursion to use the county's
"Educational Computer" to run our programs live. We really couldn't
have had a better start for the world that was about to come.

We had a really good teacher (among many) called Scott at Grammar
School, but he was a history teacher. Every year in the summer term he
would take a party of fuzzers (our term for first years) on the train
from Coventry (the station was a short walk down the hill from school)
to Birmingham and then Dudley where we would walk to the Wren's Nest {1}
to look for fossils (hence Mr Scott's affectionate nickname.
I was very proud to have found a trilobite there which I still have
wrapped in cotton wool inside an old Swan Vesta matchbox. I was also
proud to be praised by Fossil for being the only boy able to identify a
coltsfoot flower. Happy days.
{1}
https://www.dudley.gov.uk/things-to-do/nature-reserves/wrens-nest-national-nature-reserve/

Had BR not shut the line via Kenilworth I’d have walked from the city
centre to the station every half term from 1963 - 69, but the line was
closed in Jan 1965 and I was condemned to going by bus then until I left
the school for the disabled there. in 1969.

It was after I left that a maths teacher with a love of English began
taking people to the theatre. I disliked her so much being useless at maths
nothing would have persuaded to go with her even if my closest friends
went.

Mrs McT