Paul Gregson says:
Worden Secondary Modern, (as it was called) was built in 1953 ( I think,) and by my time there, had changed very little over the previous years. Compared with Wellfield school, which was slight;y more progressive in some ways, Worden was of the "old school". This was NOT to its depriment, we got a good education, by a fantastic team of teachers, and a respect for standards which other schools did not.
This emblem is one example. Worden had a VERY strict dress code, and the school uniform had to be worn to the letter. No personal amendments. Every morning the entire school attended assembly. Before you walked into the school hall every child was inspected...girls by Mrs Rigby, and boys by Mr Harwood. Every item of uniform from tie, to shoes had to exactly as it should be. I was once sent home to pick up my tie.
Paul Gregson says:
The ROSLA block. Since my day it has been given a skin of brick. The, it was a grey "plastic" building. I had two classes in this building, both "history". In the 1st and 2nd years with a Miss Robinson, in a classroom on the rear left,and in thr 3rd 4th and 5th years, with a Mr Cook in the class room above. His classroom was "cool" because there was the American type of school desk, which had a tip up writing desk attached to the seat, around the edges. The rest of the room was filled with tables (not desks)
The building on the left has been extended, and did not come this far into the playground. Infront of the ROSLA block there used to be two benches /seats. These were prized pieces of furniture. At least in"my day" we had seat-backs to lean against.
Paul Gregson says:
The east side of the school. Working left to right....The building with the red panels was originally built to house the "Sixth Form" a new idea at the time, to allow further education, after normal school leaving age. This was eventually replaced with college education on a much bigger scale. (Runshaw for example.) All four bottom windows housed a large room , like s small school hall. This had a screen to enable it to be split into two.
The one storey extension with a red tile roof is built where the main entrance stood for this end of the building. Above that is the t 1970 addition art room.
Infront of the remainder is the 1970's science block extension (Seen here extended yet again.) Mr Johnson, was the archetypal "mad" chemistry teacher. I would have enjoyed his class more, if there had been fewer of us, but a class of 30 children means not too much one to one teaching.
In the very distance pokling above the covered way is the windows for the woodwork class.
Paul Gregson says:
The new extension over the entrance.
On my first day at school here, it was a wet,cold September morning. There was only myself, and one other girl to attend Worden,from Leyland Methodists, so I was all alone....AHHHH. However, there must have been at least 100 children such as myself. I noticed every one was aiming for this particular door. I joined the massing crowd, climbed the steps, and found myself being pushed along, towards the door, by the sixth formers "helping" us a little too keenly. As I got close to the door, s sudden surge from those behind, hurled me into a lady teacher.(Mrs Brown) "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING !" she screamed at me. "Through to the left." And so we all gathered in the Sixth form hall, to be told where we were to go next.
Paul Gregson says:
On the left, forgetting the door and two windows, as they were not there then, the three windows of three windows, was the chemistry lab, th covered way door came from the chemistry prep room, the next window was for a very small classroom, where I had music lessons with Mrs Derrick,and finally a class room where for a while I had maths with Mr Ashton, a fantastic teacher, who helped me enormously
The building behind housed the wood work class in the three upper windows (left out of view is the metal work classroom.) The little squint windows on the ground floor were originally the girls PE changing rooms, but were used for storage then. Behind can just be seen the windows of the school gym.
Next the Biology building, the gable roof behind is modern. And finally on the right te RSLA block.
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