Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
Did some of you actually have arithmetic qualifications? I can remember mental arithmetic and arithmetic at infant and junior school, but from 11 onwards it was all maths. I don't think anyone will ever be able to teach me English Language mind.
I just recall it being Maths once we left junior school, Joe. Somewhere in my head I remember having lessons in trig...and then a bit of a glut of algebra and then on to logarithms for a what seemed an eternity. There was no forewarning as to what the Maths lesson would entail though, so it was just called 'Maths' and we were divided into those of us taking it at O level and the others sitting it at GCE level.
I remember doing the poem Jodrell Bank for O level lit, along with The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Northanger Abbey and the Taming of the Shrew.
It was an epic year for being bored!