1972 School Magazine

At 3.40 pJn. everyone hungrily lines up for "scrape". Then the musicians among us reluctantly head -for the music block to make up for that 6.00 a.m. music practice they overslept that morning. If we are mbre fortunate, we can collect our brightly-coloured plastic basins and proceed to the drying-room to indulge in the pleasant pastime of washing. As well as this, we are free to play tennis, read tlie daily papers, or study-as we rarish. At five o'clock, it is rolliall time again, and now it is the 5th's and 6th's who prepare to fight for the showers' We don our check tea frocks and then the night proceeds, usually uneventfully, with tea, prayers, prep and bed.

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"Time to get up please, girls!" the raucous voice echoes through the dorms. It is fourteen minutes past six and the Boarding House irritably opens its eyes. Whereas 2nd, 3rd and 4th forms make a mad dash for the few showers, the rest of the school struggle out from beneath the sheets in dribs and drabs for the next half hour. By the time the roll-call bell has clanged through the passages for about five minutes, everyone (excluding sixth form) is out of bed! We file sleepily and soberly into the Prep room for roll*all. And amid the chaos of zipping up gym tunics, putting on shoes and socks, and tying ones hair, we alphabetically answer 'oPresent, Miss . . . ". Prep. After half an hour's hard, solid study, we tear ourselves away from our books and prepare for breakfast. At breakfast the tables are crowded with packets of muesli and bottles of every size, containing everything from coffee, honey and promite to powdered milk, all the individual variations and additions to the Boarding House menu. When Grace has been recited by the mistress on duty, the girls sit down eagerly and attack their meal with great vigour. Except those on "main" table who are politely displaying their best table manners. Grace is said to conclude the meal, and we race upstairs to clean our teeth. We then make our beds and hurry downstairs to greet the daygirls.

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