I want your memories of Craig-y-Don school

Nov 5 2009

MAY I make the following appeal about commemorating the old Craig-y-Don School through your letters page?

The imminent demolition of the building in Morley Road will remove a landmark school from the area that three generations of my family have attended.

I’d like to collect any written memories and photographs associated with the school to form a public display and produce a booklet as a record of the school’s impact on local people. Signed and addressed written material and photographs may be placed in a box provided at the Craig- y-Don Community Centre off Queen’s Road until January 31, 2010. A stamped and addressed envelope should be included for material which needs to be returned to the owner.

I remember that two classes with separate teachers were taught at the same time in a single room with no partition between them, for years two and three and years four and five.

Local children taught in this way did so well that in the year I passed the then "scholarship examination" the A form in the first year intake to John Bright Grammar School contained most of class five from Craig-y-Don School. We certainly learned to concentrate on what our teachers were saying.

The occasional use of the cane could also have been quite influential on behaviour, but that is another story which I hope to discover.

P Doherty,

Llandudno