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Stan Pycroft at Killinchy School
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TitleStan Pycroft at Killinchy School
DescriptionMy education was a bit hairy because I couldn’t get into school properly.
My father was a blacksmith who lived at Burwood and I used to go to my grandparents quite regularly.
My grandfather had a brother, Frank and his daughter was a schoolteacher at Phillipstown School.
This particular day she came to me and said "Young man you’re not at school yet".
And my grandmother said "No" and she said, "You are going to school tomorrow".
She took me to Phillipstown School and I was there for six days because it was the start of the Christmas holidays at the school. So that was alright but while I was in there; my father had shifted from Burwood to Killinchy and my auntie Ella she came round and she said you keep an eye on all this paperwork for Stan here for the next year’s school.
I should have been at school when I turned five but I didn't get there until the next year when I actually started Killinchy Primers.
We had a Miss Innes here and I did not like her very much.
I was only there a fortnight and she caught some boys swearing and apparently, she washed their mouths out with soap and water and this did not go down too well with one of the mothers who was at the school sorting things out a bit.
I don’t think that ever happened again.
I graduated into Standard One and Standard Two while I was here and the Standard Two children used to come into this room here and Mr. Bruce he was the headmaster here and he was apparently a bit strap happy and the children, as far as I know, were not looking forward to it.
My father then shifted from Killinchy to Leeston so I finished up at Leeston for two years in Standards Three and Four and then went to Little Rakaia School.
Then my father shifted back to Killinchy and then this particular day he went up to Mr. Alec Allen's place and he found out that I could milk cows and wanted to know if I could milk cows for the school holidays.
"Oh yes", Dad said "that would be alright", so anyway I stopped there for the month and then he wanted to know; so he said to my father, "Why can’t Stan stop here, milk the cows here and go to Killinchy School from here".
My father agreed and I did that for 12 months and by the time I got back the second time; a Mr. Chas Miller was a teacher here at the school; he was the sole teacher and anyway, I got on quite well with him and I passed my education here and my father said "Right you boys when you leave school you can get out and do some work", so that was the end of me so I ended up stopping and staying at Alec Allen’s milking cows.
But the year that I came here I milked the cows in the morning and then milked them at night and then continued my education until Standard Six.
Adapted from a talk given by Stan Pycroft.
Date22 July 2021SourceThe Ellesmere EchoLocationKillinchy
DescriptionMy education was a bit hairy because I couldn’t get into school properly. My father was a blacksmith who lived at Burwood and I used to go to my grandparents quite regularly.
My grandfather had a brother, Frank and his daughter was a schoolteacher at Phillipstown School.
This particular day she came to me and said "Young man you’re not at school yet".
And my grandmother said "No" and she said, "You are going to school tomorrow".
She took me to Phillipstown School and I was there for six days because it was the start of the Christmas holidays at the school. So that was alright but while I was in there; my father had shifted from Burwood to Killinchy and my auntie Ella she came round and she said you keep an eye on all this paperwork for Stan here for the next year’s school.
I should have been at school when I turned five but I didn't get there until the next year when I actually started Killinchy Primers.
We had a Miss Innes here and I did not like her very much.
I was only there a fortnight and she caught some boys swearing and apparently, she washed their mouths out with soap and water and this did not go down too well with one of the mothers who was at the school sorting things out a bit.
I don’t think that ever happened again.
I graduated into Standard One and Standard Two while I was here and the Standard Two children used to come into this room here and Mr. Bruce he was the headmaster here and he was apparently a bit strap happy and the children, as far as I know, were not looking forward to it.
My father then shifted from Killinchy to Leeston so I finished up at Leeston for two years in Standards Three and Four and then went to Little Rakaia School.
Then my father shifted back to Killinchy and then this particular day he went up to Mr. Alec Allen's place and he found out that I could milk cows and wanted to know if I could milk cows for the school holidays.
"Oh yes", Dad said "that would be alright", so anyway I stopped there for the month and then he wanted to know; so he said to my father, "Why can’t Stan stop here, milk the cows here and go to Killinchy School from here".
My father agreed and I did that for 12 months and by the time I got back the second time; a Mr. Chas Miller was a teacher here at the school; he was the sole teacher and anyway, I got on quite well with him and I passed my education here and my father said "Right you boys when you leave school you can get out and do some work", so that was the end of me so I ended up stopping and staying at Alec Allen’s milking cows.
But the year that I came here I milked the cows in the morning and then milked them at night and then continued my education until Standard Six.
Adapted from a talk given by Stan Pycroft.
Date22 July 2021SourceThe Ellesmere EchoLocationKillinchyClick on the image to add
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