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The Oldershaw School
Valkyrie Road
Wallasey
Merseyside
CH45 4RJ

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Was this your School ?

yep this was the school i went 2 an it was ok had a laff there

lol was miss jones still there?(head of year) or cabbage head (mr francis pe teacher)?
Mr ward? (pe teacher)
mrs blackstock? (pe teacher)

Who else went here?

Mr Ward is still there, He is a prick , i went to school there, my uncle knocked mr ward out when he went to school there.

When my son was in year 7 or 8 i had to go and get him coz he was ill.
As i walked thru 'peachy'-mr peach the head, ragged my cap off my head, screaming 'how many times have i said that 6th formers should not wear caps in the main buiding?'
I reacted defensivly at the time but secretly i still chuckle to meself!

Peachy is not a patch on the Loach master

Well i got permanently kicked out by Mr Peach in yr 8 for sumthin i didnt even do

The head before Mr Loach was Mr Williams...he was scary!! lol. Mr Ward retired last Xmas, still as fat and unfit as ever!! Mr Ollerhead was still there until the summer hols then he retired. I loved my time at Oldershaw.

i went there, why are you asking mark?

I went to Oldershaw from 1990 to 1997. Good times. Thing it went downhill though in the late 1990s. One of the most infamous incident that happened while I was the there was the arrest and conviction of one of the Art teachers. Anyone else remember this.

The day before the end of the 1992 summer holidays I heard the news headlines on Radio Merseyside. A teacher, Mr D-------, had been charged with child abuse. Bit of a shock but the guy was weird and very much a bible-basher. He used to cut all the naked paintings out of the art textbooks. Said they were "the work of the devil".
Turned out he'd been taking choir boys back to his house and "wrestling" with them. Naughty boy! It was the talk of all the kids for a few days. Personally, I thought some of the P.E. teachers were a bit dodgy too. I'm sure any of the lads who went there around this time will know who I mean.

Another incident I remember involved Mr. Loach. During an Upper School assembly, he informed us all that someone had taken a turd and used it to write on and vandalise the walls of the boy's toilets. Of course he didn't use the word turd but instead called it "excretion". Loachy was so serious and condemned the criminal as a "disgusting little individual". I was desperately trying not to laugh but it was very difficult. What could be funnier? Almost everyone was desperate to burst out laughing, even the teachers.

Unfortunately, the perpetrator was never caught and this crime remains unsolved.

Does anyone remember a pupil called asimon Martin from moreton ?

does anyone remember a teacher whos nickname was hotdog (coz he looked like one) i seem to remember he married an ex pupil. i saw that he died last year. mr williams was head when i was there and a scarey man. mr cefai was the english teacher, wonder what happened to him. he looked the image of the yorkshire ripper poor man

Yes I remember this. Surely it's ok to name him as he was convicted for the naked wrestling? He's got a website now selling his paintings.

Touchstone I remember him, if you mentioned god outloud in his class he used to go off his head, really strange character.