Giddy and guileless Grammar Girls Cartoons

It is fitting to begin with art in the classroom. There are obviously a range of emotions depicted in students in this classroom with art teacher Mr Timmermans (‘Timmy’)—concentration, boredom, puzzlement, all perhaps to counter the teacher’s apparent enthusiasm. In his time of teaching at BGGS from 1956 until his death in 1974, students were usually taught sitting at specially-designed art desks to accomplish their art practice, not always the best physical approach to draw or paint.

1964 June BGGS Magazine, artist Isabella Richard p23