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Cobden School Staff ,1967.
Middle Row:P Bradley, P H Oakley,E R Markland,A P Lowe,C Henderson.
Front Row:P Connors,P J Holmes,M A Anderson,G Skinner.Date of Photo1967Map[1] ContributorJan Ward
Roger Howell
I remember Roy Markland at GHS a good guy and a good sportsman
Tania Eggeling
Mr skinner was the principal and my teacher at karoro primary school. He was very strict.
Mandy O'Sullivan
Annabell Dey look at Marie Anderson
Rochelle Keats
Heather Brailsford check out Marie Anderson in the front row.:)
Lynn Turnbull
Miss Connors was my Primer one teacher !!
Keith White
Paul Bradley - very good muso :)
Karla Haussmann
i remember miss connors well she gave me the strap the one and only time i got the strap
Rapahoe Countrie Beachside
So sixties in the hair cuts and clothing / nice pic
Robyn Gielis
I know most of them when I was there George Skinner Paul or Peter Holmes headmaster Miss Conners my primmer 1 teacher Neil Markland Peter Oakley Tony Lowe of course we all called then Mr or Miss or Mrs then
Gary Rauhihi
Skinner gave me the strap. Hurt like hell.
Brian McIntyre
I recognise George Skinner from around town back then
Gary Rauhihi
Mr lowe gave me the strap at intermediate. Didn't hurt.
Brian McIntyre
It never does Gary Rauhihi its was all in our mind.
Glenis Muir Steven Fowler
Miss Conners was my teacher in Primmer One and Paul Bradley in Std 6.
Glenis Muir Steven Fowler
Lynne Maree Davey-Douglas remember when Tony Lowe and Barry Maughan lived a couple of houses away from us in the two storey house with the walk bridge from the road to the front door. We would wait and see them come in from school and when we thought they were downstairs we would go and knock on their front door and run like the wind either to your place and watch thru the hedge or in the long grass and trees by their place.
Sue Vaughan
I remember playing that game
Lynne Maree Davey-Douglas
I wouldn't do a thing like that lol, they new it was us ,fun times ah x
Jan Ward
Only miss Connors was on the staff when I was at Cobden School I was of the era of mr Young, miss Ryan, mr Murley, mr Seator, mr Postlewaite & miss Nuttall was our p 1 teacher. She used to hit us around the legs with a ruler if we didn't march into class in a straight line. I must have got the marching in right as I always loved school.
Howard Topph
The Head masters son Bob Holmes wrote to me after the Pike mine disaster, Unfortunatly I lost his address
Evelyn Hampton
Was that Marie Anderson, taught at Ikamatua in the 1950's and in the late 1980's - early 1990's at Grey Main, she was a wonderful teacher...
Robin Whyte
miss anderson taught at greymain in the early 70's she was my teacher back then
Sonia Back
Miss Anderson was mine and my brothers teacher as well in the 80's lol
Kerry Beech
Miss Anderson taught at Runanga in the early to late 60's she was the first to give me the strap, that was after Marion Bansgrove and I played leap frog on the other kids that were sitting on the floor. Happy days!
Judy Smolen
that's right Kerry Miss Anderson taught me too
Lynn Turnbull
Miss Connors tripped and broke her ankle on a milk crate ...chasing a naughtly boy around our classroom !! But i wont say who lol lol
en Tomlinson
George Skinner was our teacher at Waitaha before he went to Cobden.
Bill Liddell
Taught with Tony Lowe at Intermediate and with George at Cobden Good guys
John Fowler
Good memories of Cobden school. Miss Connors started me off in primer one and last year with Tony Lowe form two 1966
Chris Munn
I know that Tony and Susan caught up with George some time ago and I contacted Peter Oakley through the old friends site. Are any of these people still alive?
Darcy Downey
Chris Munn Miss Connors was my Aunty. She died in 1970 aged only 42
Chris Munn
I recall her dying. Way to young...
Mary Hopkins
I have some bad memories and some good of cobden school
Christine Banks
Mary Hopkins Me too Mary, mostly good but it was certainly a different time and picking on some children happened by those who should have known better, still, they must live with themselves and we get to move on. Time and good people around us are healing but memories can easily come to the surface.
Mr Skinner was the principal when I went to cobo.
Tony Froome
Maurice Moka stayed at school long enough to learn his name aye mate
Sheryl O'Leary
Mr Holmes was Principal and George Skinner was my teacher for the two years I attended Cobden School. We moved in to the new school in my second year. 1969 I think it was.
Rob Absalom
Remember them all. My final year at Cobden Primary.
Rose Green
Omg what a great staff remember most of them Miss Connors was my first teacher .. great times
Carol Cook
George and I used to collate doubles at TAB, I remember his banana sandwiches he had every Saturday! Not sure if week day lunches were the same!!!
Zane Inglis
Flash backs of the strap! Mr Skinner ! Thought that face was erased from my memory!
Lee Williams
Thelma Gunn died youngish too, she was Miss Nimmo to us in ‘64,’65.
Velma Donaldson
Pat Connors also taught at Blackball School. Have lovely memories of her and her family who lived in Blackball.
Carolyn Graham
George Skinner also taught at Grey Main School approx 1960. His wife was there at the same time.
Rebekah Fairhurst Geer
Oh gosh there’s a lot of memories this picture evokes! I was a grey main (old site & new)& grey intermediate kid, and a few of those people had the pleasure of teaching me.. mr skinner & mr Bradley stand outs
Brenda Brown
Oh my god very young George Skinner
Jacqueline Dishington
Miss conner my favourite teacher still remember the pictures across the black board where we learned our abcs worse thing was the bottle of milk we had to drink ugh
Chris Munn
I recall baking bread st Shannon & Glenn on Thursday night with George and Eric Maynel. Trev Franklin might recall this too.
Karla Skates
Is that Miss Anderson (Miss A) who also taught at Grey main?
Kiri Stevens
Karla Skates I see miss Anderson Wednesday at sit and fit which is a exercise group, She remembers my brother Danny, She’s a good sort
Sandra Hughes
Miss Conners would of been most peoples 1st teacher as she was the primmer 1 teacher, but also remember she was the class closest to the dental nurses room
Rob Absalom
Sandra Hughes miss Burt was my fav. as a youngster.
Susan Barlow
Is that Roy Markland? Looks like it.
Lynda McAuliffe
Jill Craw yes, uncle Roy
Bev Johnston
I was taught by some of these teachers as i moved through the classes at Cobden School.
Linda Gray
Miss Anderson was my favorite xx
Janet McQueen
Me Oakley kept us enthralled reading us Famous Five and Secret Seven Books.we were always asking for another chapter to be read. In Standard 1 I remember he needed to teach me to read the time so I could take my turn at being the bell monitor.
In Standard 3 we had Mr Markland who did exciting Social Studies and art projects. He had an artist of the week award that I use to try desperately to win but only managed it once. Remember making long strip reports with pictures and information underneath on Japan and the Life cycle of Spiders. He also loved sport and taught us all to play longball and softball. Many non stop cricket games as well. He must have been head of Maths as he built about 100 abacus with cut up pieces of red and green hose as counters. After varnishing them all and leaving them to dry over night in the cloakroom of our classroom (the old art room at the back of the school hall near the swimming pool) it flooded the next morning. He didn’t open up and taught us in the library in the main block instead. At morning tea time he sent the painters ( who had been painting the hall) over to rescue the Abacus. We watched through the windows to see the water nearly up to their waists. Later the school closed and we were sent home. Later my brothers paddled canoes through the school hall
I was very fortunate to have Mr Bradley in both Std 4 and Form 1. He was so inspiring and talented. I still remember many of his lessons. We did real science experiments, learnt to play both the recorder and guitar. Did exciting art like printmaking and clay, and had folk dancing lessons. Plus SRA trading. He compiled a school song book which we spent a lot of time singing from. I found a copy at home minus a cover. He also took a school choir. A year or two after this photo he joined with Mr Sandford in starting a drama group where we put on many School Journal plays.
I seem to remember gymnastic classes as well learning to do a forward roll and backward roll but never mastering a handstand or cartwheel.
In std 2 and Form 2 I had Mr Skinner whose classes always seemed dull, none of the fun stuff. It seemed like endless English at Work book grammar lessons and essay writing , or giving prepared speeches. He was a very dry, strick teacher.
Miss Conners in Std 1 and her Dr Suess books which she kept in the back storeroom. Plus her little black Sambo lesson with the parasol. She hit me with her ruler once and that was all I needed to learn that at school you did not talk in class. Until I meet Mr Skinner who strapped me twice for talking when it wasn’t me !!!!
We had some great teachers at Cobden and quite Uniquely I think we had Males as teachers in every class from Std 1 - Form 2.
David Nimmo
Janet McQueen Sister, your memory is a little astray. Your brothers would have loved to paddle through the hall that day; but all we could do was look through the windows of the old school, where we had to wait long enough for the flood to subside before we were allowed to go home. It was High School students doing the paddling but I don’t remember who. After a normal 100 metre walk to school on a typical wet morning just before the school bell, there was a cloud burst. Range Creek which is piped underground along the Ward St and Newcastle St sides of the school couldn’t cope and everything flooded in a few minutes. From the classroom window we watched a slip come down onto a house on the hill side of Sturge Street.
I remember helping to clean out the mess left by the silt under the hall stage where the trestle tables were kept and all the paraphernalia that was used for the School Show and the Anglican Church flower show. Bolts of sodden green material and hundreds of bottles filled with flood water stick in my mind.Stephen Lucas
Pat Connors was my P1 teacher in 1956 if I remember rightly she got married that year as I recall calling her miss and then Mrs Connors .
CES Murphy is missing from this photo I remember he had a piano in his S1 classroom
Peter Robertson
Stephen Lucas Her maiden name was Connors! Didn't know she'd ever married. Can you remember her name then?
Stephen Lucas
Peter Robertson I am going purely on memory and in my memory she was Mrs
Trish Briggs
Paul Bradley boarded with our Nanna in Fox Street.
Robert Mathewson
About the year i entered primary school ,kicked out on my first day in primmer 1 by Miss Conners and the strap ,so it started ,She was a very good teacher as were Mr Skinner and Low ,Mr Hanson was tops , a good school with great memories ,thankyou.
Stephen Lucas
Pat CollPat Connors my P1 teacher
Keith White
Played with Paul Bradley for a short time, probably in Familiar Faces - very fine musician ?
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