Trivia
Trivia
- 6 School stamps equal one chocolate (It was a Fry chocolate cream bar; orange, peppermint, raspberry or plain chocolate cream)
- Did you know that in the grades the initial of the teacher was used to identify the class
e.g. 5e was Mr Edmond's class, 4r was Mrs Rubin's
- Aspirin was matrons favourite remedy...maybe only remedy!
- Mr Kerr was in charge of the theatrette, and it was there where the overflow from the primary hall were able to watch man's first step upon the moon
- It was a 1/3 of a pint of milk we drank everyday in junior school
- 4 Aniseed squares for a cent, 2 mates, bananas or clinkers for a cent. ChooChoo bars made a couple of entrepreneurs wealthy. The fun of a sunny boy was to open it and find "you have won a free sunny boy". Scanlen's included bubble gum with their football cards or tattoos.
- Witches britches were out, regulation grey was in....dutifully checked by Mrs Trende from the bottom of the staircase
- In 1975 there were 32 buses servicing the school. Mr Quince was one of our drivers, and it was Norm, the bus driver, who liked to sing using the buses PA system in between cigarettes
- A piece of toast cost 3c and the favourite Taranto flavour was not lemon or pistachio, but chocolate
- A wooden ruler was never known to beat a metal ruler in a ruler fight; for that matter, a large ball bearing was always able to beat a glass marble in marbles
- No-one in our year has come forward admitting they knew the whole school song. That led to a lot of foot stomping (Perry Zamek has admitted to knowing it, there may be others!!)
- The running track in the Skolnik Oval is approximately 300 metres in circumference
- Even with the support of our principal, no one in our year became an Astronaut
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