I attended KEVICS the year all the schools joined to become one - in September 1966. Peter Snape was the Headmaster of the school. Stan Cauldwell was my French teacher in the first year, Voss for English, Bigwood and Pete Riches for Art, Toop for Chemistry, Ray Parker for Geography, Jock Greishan for Biology and Physics - Mrs’ Strutt and Pickup for sports.
We started off at the old girls High School for the first two years then moved up to the old Redworth for the third year. If you were expected to do O and A levels you were then sent down to the Masion, the old Grammar School in the Fore Street. I hated it there, we had some lessons back at the main school and you had to leg it during break time, not an easy track on a good day but when it was cold and wet, it made life a misery. I couldn’t wait to leave!
I remember the first time that they tried to revive the school song in my fourth year. It was a bit of a lost cause except for the chorus, which was a bit of a joke as so few of the pupils chose Latin over German!