Untitled: Mrs. Violet Austin memoir

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26-27; 30

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[Violet Austin recalls in detail the teachers, subjects and other features of her school years. By Standard 3, the class was all female. She left school aged fourteen, in 1924]

In Standard 3, we were taught by one of my favourite teachers. Kind, calm, and very efficient, I learned a great deal from Miss Chambers […] This teacher was a good pianist and played the piano for our morning and evening hymns.She also arranged and produced any school concerts and plays […]

We had a hilarious time in Standard 4, but learnt very little, being taught by a sweet-tempered, but very absent minded lady, who had hair which was an impossible shade of red. It was plaited and coiled around her head. She loved music and singing and was always humming.

I remember her teaching us “The Bells of Aberdovey”, “The Ash Grove”, etc., and playing the harmonium which the school had as well as the piano. We children pulled that harmonium out from the wall, once or twice a week, because Miss Satry-Green (that was her name) had dropped something behind it. 

When she beat time for our singing, she would get carried away with enthusiasm, and would nod and shake her head so vigorously that her hair pins would fall out, and her hair was always tumbling down. Just imagine the effect that had on the class! 

[…]

We had our Prize Day on Empire Day [in March], and sang patriotic songs.

excerpt from 'Untitled: Mrs. Violet Austin memoir' pp. 26-27; 30 (238 words)

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