Life Trove

In 1984, my school world shifted. We moved away from the dour, strict atmosphere of the previous headmaster and into the era of Mr. Cannon. ...

When I was in high school, our mathematical world was presided over by Mr. Norton. To our teenage eyes, he seemed ancient—at least eighty ye...

It feels sad knowing some of your teachers have passed away, especially ones you were close to.  It reminds you of your own mortality and th...

I wrote this true short piece for students to introduce "used to" and "would" to talk about repeated actions and states ...

I wrote these two childhood memories for an English class: I have a couple of very vivid childhood memories. Both are about embarrassing ...

Mr Suttle taught me Latin through my senior school years.  He taught us Latin translation (using brilliant texts he'd developed himself)...

Gordon Howard, our senior school Biology teacher, had one and gave us some fascinating demos of the power of the device. He really understoo...

  Mr Cannon and his lovely wife, Wendy Mr Cannon was my school headmaster from St 7 year (1984) to the end of school.  He was a wonderful, c...

One of my favourite and most influential teachers at St Georges was beautiful Jenny Mallett. Jenny was a veritable force of nature.  A large...