"The reason the class was co-ed was
because towards the end of the third year, choices had to be made as to
our individual career paths, resulting in being split up from most of
our fellow-pupils of the previous three years as we entered a different
phase of our education. Form 4C concentrated on 'Commercial' subjects
like shorthand and typing and book-keeping and presumably the boys
would be hoping to go into journalism or accountancy. I think other
classes were domestic science and woodwork/metalwork etc (which in
those days would most certainly have been single sex). I think a class
with the letter A after the number was for those who were probably
hoping for higher education and covered the more advanced
mathematic/scientific subjects and was also co-ed. I don't know what
the 'A' stood for but could have been for Advanced or Academic I
suppose." Gina Hutchinson (Tonroe) |