In message <41396F2E.7040604@virgin.net>, Joe Connell <jfc.public@virgin.net> writes >The school day would commence with a general melee in what was called >the playground. Hi Joe, I am really enjoying your messages about schooldays in Coventry... where I also went to school. Stoke Secondary Modern then Stoke Park Grammar this was between 1938 and 1949. You seem to have had pretty much the same experiences as me. They instituted a system of order/conduct marks at Stoke Park. A conduct mark was equivalent to five order marks. Didn't really work... we collected them like trophies! Really enjoyed having our names read out in assembly for such naughtiness too. I think the best detention trick we played was to put one girl up to running out of the class door... teacher went after her and while she was gone we all left out of the French doors! We never heard any more of this. I think it was too much for the teacher to own up to losing the entire class! grin Dorothy -- Dorothy Gibbs (in Hertfordshire, UK)