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2006-02-048
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Being Thrown off The Steps
How things have changed! The steps into the school through what was for many years the boys' entrance latterly had white safety lines on them. But many ex-pupils will remember these steps for an initiation tradition inflicted on 11-year-old first formers by those in the 5th year. They were thrown off the top step in what was called flying lessons. The alternative was to be chucked into the nearby holly bush. After a few days of scraped and scratched legs most first-formers swapped short trousers for long ones as protection. Here on the last day Kevin Palmer(left) and John Simpson(right) re-enact the flying lessons with Richard Guise - who was not hurt!!

17 February 2006. Photo from John D Simpson caption by Kevin Palmer.
Photo reference: 2006-02-048