Re: Bus service on Parrsboro Shore

Hi David,

My dad just told me that about the fuel for heating at the school that it
was heated with coal. Aso the classroom on the left for the smaller kids took
in the whole side of the building but had its own hallway where their coats
etc where kept. It also had two doors entering the classroom and dad said
god help us if we entered or left by the wrong one Mrs Parsons was strict on
that rule and must of been a good teacher

Bev


In a message dated 12/1/2006 7:19:56 PM Atlantic Standard Time, Bumbly73
writes:

Like your Dad, whom I went to school with for a few years as you know, I
went to Port Greville School for 3 years (Grades 6, 7 and 8) before moving
away. My memories were that the school was divided into 4 rooms; 3
classrooms and a type of "meeting room". There was no inside plumbing at the
time but it had a boys and girls outhouse on the bank as one enters the
driveway from the left. Grades 1 to 4 with 1 teacher was on the left but I'm
not sure in it was left front or left rear. Grades 5 to 8 with 1 teacher
were in the front right while grades 9 to 12 with one teacher were in the
right rear. In the winter, it was heated by a wood furnace in the basement.

Some of the students were even BAD! I remember one cold windy winter morning
the janitor was later arriving than usual to get the fire on so when us
students arrived the building was still COLD. When the teachers went to the
basement to check on the janitor's progress, some of the older students
opened all the windows in every classroom while another kept watch on the
basement steps. When they were alerted the teachers were coming back
upstairs, they'd quietly put down the windows quickly and go sit at their
desks very innocently looking as if nothing was going on. We managed to get
the morning off that day and returned at noon after the school was finally
heated up. The janitor really got heck that morning and couldn't figure out
why the furnace wasn't putting out heat like it should.

Another incident I remember was one day the Public Health Nurse arrived to
give all of us a needle for something or other. One of the male students was
terrified of needles so asked to be excused to go to the outhouse. When he
didn't return in a reasonable timeframe, he was finally located way up in
one of the huge spruce trees behind the school and wouldn't come down until
he saw the Nurse driving away from the school.






Beverly Vaughan
Bumbly73@...


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