...Dressing up for Halloween and walking from school up past Pop Walkers store, down the hill to (Grist Mill Road now) up that long hill, across by the cemetery around back to the school. Hard hills when in a costume. Then get judged for the best costume. Mrs Jacques was the principal then.

...Could not wait for lunch time when Bob Arnold would bring the glass milk bottles to the front door of the school. We could order white or chocolate milk. When he arrived, you knew it was lunch time.

...my faveourite memory was being with my mom at the school and being with my favourite teacher Ms. Sanderse and being with my favorite caretaker Kathy.

...Having two separate lines to enter the school. One line was for the boys and the other for girls.

...Mrs. Bone, Mrs. Coyle, Mrs Richardson, Mrs Hambly, Mr Zander, Mrs Eade, Mrs Jaques, Ms Hare, Mr Jackson, Mrs Essery (music), Mrs St. John (music)-They were all great.

...I remember Mr Zander clearing aside the desks so we could play crab walk soccer

...Our music teacher Mrs. St. John with her pitch pipe

...All I gotta say is Rock On! the musical thing we did

...Going to Arts Camp

...Hanging out at the school after hours

...climbing on the roof (I mean...what? that wasn't us!)

...remember when we use to roll up that white glue in our hands and then flick it at Mrs. Essery when she had her back to us on the piano

....Mr. Zander spending countless hours every evening in the cold winter nights outside flooding the rink that he made in the school yard for all of the kids.

....Having separate hallways and doors for girls and boys in the old school

....Ms. McCosh always asking me to come back and read with her students when I had finally just gotten out of her class.

....Mr. Bonesteel and Mrs. Green in the new school for grade 6/7/8.

....Mrs. Essery making us sing with the classroom door closed on very hot days, even when students started passing out.  "I don't want you to turn your heads even if a pink elephant with purple pocodots walks through that door!"  I still love to sing though.

....Stephen Cooke and Ms. McCosh, enough said.

....attending the old school which my Dad and his brothers and sisters had attended

...Dad taking my brother, sister and I one-by-one on our three-wheeler ATV to the new school because the buses weren't running one winter day.

...Tom Breen conducting Grade 8 band to 'King of the Road' (1984)

...Mrs. Kane's 'Group of Seven+1' in Grade 8 English (1984)

...Grade 8 graduation and not knowing all that lay before us

...Mr. Woods nose picking and snot saving ritual? 

...Halloween parade and POP WALKERS Store where POP threw out pennies instead of candy to the children.

...Remember sitting in Mr. Zanders class,  not paying attention or talking to someone while he was trying to teach and having a piece of chalk or the black board brush  coming flying across the room and hit your desk. It always scared the crap out of you and you always smartened up pretty quick....

...remember Mr. Jacksons spelling hockey games in grades 2-3-4 1964-1967  ??

...remember Mrs. Halfyard (grade 8) opening a bag with a (unbeknownst to her) dead snake in it and when she asked to see what was in a bag that pupils in her class were so interested in?? 

...do you remember Mr. Graham or Miss Batterham or Mrs. Hambly and Mrs. Sawdon and Mrs. Richardson and Mrs. Bone and a wonderful principal called Mrs. Jacques??

...Remember the annual Winter Carnival with Bonhomme?

...Remember in the early 50's when the primary grades were held in the little motel beside the river?

...sitting in Mrs. Jaques class and part of the ceiling fell down on Jean Lepard's desk along with a mouse

...Billy Robinson put his ink bottle in his mouth and the lid came off and had ink all over his white shirt

...Mr Morganroth (Principal & Gr 8 Teacher) sent me into the hall for a punishment - which meant you could be there awhile- so I went over to the store for a pop and chips, came back after finishing my snack to continue to wait in the hall for my detention to end and he wanted to know  "After I had stood there so long had I learned my Lesson?"

...Mr Morganroth used to hang out the window of the school to ring the bell

...in 1969 the school went from housing grade K- 8 to only K - 6.  The 7 & 8 classes were sent to Park Avenue. The grade 6 class of 1968 was the first class to attend Park Avenue for grade 7 & 8. 

...in 1966 the portable added to the school and by 1968 used for the kindergarten class which was moved there from the second street location

...Our gym classes were held outside or in our classrooms with all the desks moved back. We had no gym. 

...beating Park Ave in basketball and wining the tournament and getting the pinnie to put up on the wall in the gym.

...Participaction days?

...Fun Fair! Trying to win those amazing quilts by Mrs. McPhail!

...singing with Mrs Essery?

...having gym class across the street at the United Church?

...in the old school to get to the grade 1 room, you had to go through the grade 2 (or 3) classroom?

...playing British Bulldog when we weren't allowed to and "cleverly" calling it BBD!

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