More Pictures from Rosemary Tan
by Rosemary. You know why? All of them too cute!
Brownies of Year 1964
This is class 5A, the year we moved back to Ledang Primary.
Well, take another look at Std 6A
Brownies in the year 1965
The Prefects of Year 1965
by Rosemary. You know why? All of them too cute!
(This photo from my collection)
Apparently the grass has grown taller after Class 1B photo was taken.
This was my class, Standard 1C.
You should be able to recognise Ong Heng Leng, the one with
the most exposed forehead.
I think this Standard 2A.
Anybody has a story to tell?
One day he smelt something smelly in class and he asked who has farted.
Of couse nobody admitted. So he gave everyone a blackboard white
chalk, and he said "bring back the chalk tomorrow, the one whose
chalk has grown shorter will be caned"
Of course we now know this is all nonsense but it was so real.
So, 2nd day came, and we brought back our chalks. Mine was broken
into 2 pcs and so were many others (you put the chalk into one of
rattan schoolbag, and what do you expect? stay in one pc?) But lucky
for me I got a replacement, somebody bought a dozen to share.
Unfortunately, a few others were caned.
(This photo taken from Lim Bee Huan's collection)
The photo says it: Standard 3A 1962.
Because the school ran out of space, they kicked us out and we
landed in St. Matthew's school. You know, behind the school was
Agatha's house. Agatha's mother reared chickens and ducks and they
ran freely in the space in front of her house which was also the school
field. During PE, we also ran freely in the field. It was kind of fun esp.
when you also step on poultry shits.
Do you people remember that when we had Art lessons in the evening and there was
no water on the tap? The teacher collected the water from the pond among the rubber
trees behind the school. You collect the water in the pail and put all kinds of colour
paints into the water and stir it, then you place a white art paper above the water
and bravo, you get rainbow colours printed on the art paper. and we did them
on the lonkang outside the classroom.
This is class 4B, the photo says so!
Hey, what about Class 1 A, Class 2C, Class 3B and C and Class 4C photos?
This picture was taken in 1964 and back to our original school.
The faces are easier to recognise as we had grow bigger. Charlie Wong
was the class teacher. Of course Seng Jee Oun was the class monitor.
You can see the monitor badge displayed proudly on his shirt.
The girls were definitely bigger and taller than the boys who were
still playing with marbles.
This is Class 6A. I was'nt in this class; I failed to make the grade, so
I was in Standard 6B with Vijayakumar. Unfortunately, I do not
have the photo for Standard 6B. What about 6C.