2S’ Detention Register 1962-63

Bill Rich was the detention monitor for Class 2S in 1962/63 and remembers the task well.

2S’ Detention Register 1962-63

The detention monitor had to carry the red book to each class and at the end of the day take it to Room 2, the detention room, at ‘3.55’. The book was collected from outside the office at ‘8.45 the next morning’.

Looking through the pages not much is revealed about the tasks to be undertaken.Generally the comment written is ‘work set’.However, Stan Guffogg was slightly more imaginative and requested Archimedes’ Principle to be written out 20 times.On another occasion he wrote ‘100 words’.I seem to remember the punishment followed the pattern of, for example, 100 words 3 letters in each all different.Litter Picking seemed to be reserved for the more senior staff. 

The record number of detentions given by one teacher, at one time, was 10.This was by Gary Grimshaw, on Monday 10^th December 1962.The punishment on this occasion was to write out the school rules.

One or two teachers used to borrow pens from the class when they wanted to enter a name.Ned Bennett never seemed to have a pen.Once he was offered a pen in the shape of a woman’s leg and refused to write with it, much to the amusement of the class. 

Out of boredom I once made a table of the teachers who gave out detentions.It is at the back of the detention book.Had I not done so, I do not think that I could now identify the initials that are alongside the names of the pupils. 

The list is below: 

 Looking now after all these years at the list of people who received detentions, I found that I was not on it, says Bill.Perhaps, that was one of the perks of the job. 

As far as I can recall the only reason that I still have the detention book is that I collected it at 8.45 on the final day of term and, as there was no detention class that evening, kept it.

To save people's blushes the table of who received detentions is not shown here.