Ah, the memories...
As is the norm in small towns, the 2 secondary schools (Longsands and Ernulf) hated each other with a passion - end of term fights were planned weeks in advance (and usually broken up within minutes - can anyone remember a fight in school that lasted longer than 3 minutes?)

And so there we were, fresh faced 1st years in a Humanities lesson. Steven MacArthur was being his usual class clown and messing about doing something when the teacher had enough and shouted:
"Steven! if you don't stop messing about, you'll be sent to a special school...and where's the nearest one?"
Without missing a beat, Steven piped up with "Ernulf sir."

And so it was that the entire class, teacher included, were helpless with laughter for a good few minutes.

Notable teachers:

Mr. Godbolt - Chemistry teacher. Him burning an entire roll of magnesium ribbon...lobbing huge lumps of sodium/potassium into water and having it explode and run around on the ceiling tiles.

I think anyone who went to Longsands in St Neots remembers him...

Mr. Donnelly - never had him for a class, but met him countless times in pubs and got rat-arsed.

Mr. Bond - old Maths teacher, if you did something wrong in his class you had to stand at the back of the room (one of those old mobile huts).
"You boy! go stand at the back on one leg...and count the snowflakes." was a memorable cry from him.

Forget the name of the English teacher I had before leaving, but some 4 months after I'd left, she rang my mum to say she was worried I'd not been in school. Mum just said "Of course not! he's working around his exams."

Mr. (Frank) Spooner - General teacher at age 9 or 10. At the time, he was an ogre, but now I realise he was a great teacher - I even went back to see him a couple of times.

They say school days are the best days of your life, but even better is having the majority of your teachers tell you that you'd never make anything out of your life, then end up WORKING at the school, teaching the teachers to use the computers. Meh.
( snee held his breath since, Tue 3 Feb 2009, 14:08, Reply)