At the age of eleven I went to Rye Secondary Modern School with several of my friends of that age and had to travel there and back daily by school bus this added two hours to our day because with picking up people on the way took an hour each way. The bus left a set starting place quite a walk from my house at 8.00.a.m. arriving back at 5.00.p.m. Because I lived some miles from my school I was given a free bus season ticket by the local authorities.
I did enjoy my school life at Rye much better than my junior school at Pett as there were only two classes there and the ages were very mixed. The bullying stopped thank goodness when I left Pett and my new fellow students accepted me much more amicably. I think one thing that helped was being required to wear a school uniform which made us all look similarly dressed although of course this caused my Mother much financial worry purchasing it. My new school at Rye was quite big as it had to accommodate children from a large rural area. My form master was called Mr Huxstep and he was maths master for the whole school therefore if we had any spare lessons it was extra maths for his class! I can’t say I was an exceptional pupil good at any one subject but I got average marks and just once the remark on a school report “she will go far”! But how far I ask myself?
We were given the opportunity to learn all the necessary subjects of that era which included Maths, English, Science, Domestic Sciences, History, Geography, Carpentry and sports. My main choice of sport to participate in was Netball and Hockey and having very long legs was quite good at the long jump events,
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