Tag: Holy Child School
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End of term feeling
Forty years ago about this time I had my nice-est ever educational experience when, to my complete surprise, I won the P3 Christmas story prize in Mrs MacManus’s class in Holy Child Primary School. I still remember the way disappointment at not coming third or second was turned into pure joy by actually winning, and […]
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Shoe laces and psychopathy
When I think back to my time in the mid-1970s at Holy Child Primary School in Andersonstown in West Belfast I often conclude that the principal qualification for teaching most staff there had was either a hatred of children or a psychopathic desire to do them physical and mental harm. (I am not joking by […]
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Transported directly back to this week in 1974
This article on LED digital watches has taken me immediately back to this week in 1974 – as they were what all the cool kids (read: boys with indulgent parents) were showing off in the hut that was my Primary Four classroom in Holy Child School, Andersonstown, Belfast. (My family were not poor at all, […]
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