Thoughts about HGS Index

43 articles
Updated 12.11.2024

Outside the New Block

Thoughts about HGS 1

Table of contents
1. Respect for that "which was".
2. The HGS System
3. The Cricket Pavilion
​4. Distant Days
5. The Children’s Ten-Hour Day in 1922
6. The First Parents' Day - July 22nd 1922
​7. Mr Jenkinson develops the HGS System 1921-22
8. Garden to Playground? 1926
9. On Leaving School, 1938
10. About the Head Boy's position

Thoughts about HGS 2

Table of contents
1. Storm clouds were gathering
​2. An International Language
3. The Running Track and Yerba Mate
4. A thought and a lovely email
5. Standards and the School Athletics teams
6. About Mr. Leonard from the Headmaster
7. Commitment in an idyllic setting
8. Unbeaten for a term
9. The Chemistry Laboratory
10. In the background or forthright?

Thoughts about HGS 3

Thoughts about HGS 4

Table of Contents
1. Immersion in The System
2. Staff Matches and beyond
3. Difficult, early HSS times
4. Staff and Sports Days
​5. Samples of the School Sports Day Records showing progression from 1941 to 1961.

Table of contents
1. Marion remembers
2. What was important in 1930?
3. The HGS Choirs
​4. Musical Activities 1964-65
5. The beginning of an HGS Tradition
​6. An email from Linda Collingwood, HGS 1962-69

Thoughts about HGS 5

Thoughts about HGS 6

Table of Contents
​1. HGS Staff male/female numbers 1944-67
2. Memories of Staff
3. Mr. R.J. Whittaker, HGS 1943-51 and HGS Teacher 1961-62
4. A letter from Sue
​5. Leighton and a brave journey to a new life.
6. Philip Tibble remembers.
7. New Arrangements: The First Transfers 1929

Table of Contents
1. The Headmaster's Report from Speech Day 1928
2. Pupil qualifications in 1931
3. When the going got tough for HGS.
4. School Activities 1: Judo 1955-56
5. HGS Musical Activities 1951-54 with Peter Wall

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