In the next few moments a new edition shall be added to HaveleyHey.net.

A Music blog highlighting all the events and video from Haveley Hey Music!

You can find the site on http://music.haveleyhey.net and Miss Osborne will be helping me make it spectacular.

This week has also been multicultural week. Check a few of the class pages, they might be able to tell you what they have been doing. (Especially Great Grey Owl as they have been looking at Japan!)

Lets see whats happening. Take a look at the Music page! It’s fabulous!

Mr. C

Thursday sees the end of term. It also sees a Music extravaganza at Haveley Hey as the children (with the wonderful guidence of Miss Osborne) show off their talents. Parents and familes are invited to the event that beings at 1330 on Thursday, and entrance can be gained from the north side of the building into the dining hall.

Photos and hopefully video will be posted of the event that is going to be spectacular! (Trust me, I’ve seen the rehearsals and my jaw was sat on the floor!)

Secondly another memory, which shows how well family word gets around about haveleyhey.net!

Great blog page, and good to read so many memories of the old school,  including post from both of my sisters and my cousin too. I was Sheila Murray and was at HH until 1959 when I went to Poundswick Grammar School.  I can remember some things about the ‘little’ side,  like Miss Hadfield and the head mistress Miss Spinks.  I can also remember a small gym in one of the classrooms.On the ‘big’ side my teachers were Mrs Hannaby,  Miss Unter,  Miss Jackson and finally Mr Chantler.  Another teacher I remember is Miss Williams who also took us for sports but particularly rounders and her favourite phrase was, “If you don’t hit it you are OUT!”.  There was also the delightful Miss Spreckley,  the very tall Mr Dessant,  the terrifying Mr Evans,  scary Mrs Alston,  Irish Mrs Riley who played the piano I think,  and the school secretary Mrs Cunningham.  The headmaster at the time was Mr Thomas.

Sheial (Murray) Sims

It is really encouraging to know that through our school website old friends and pupils are recalling memories and linking up with each other. Our latest installment of memories comes from Shiela Ingham.. Keep them coming! I am really enjoying finding out about all that you know.

 This week sees the living eggs enter school. For this I have set up a separate page that (with time and commitments permitting) I am going to upload with pictures and videos daily. You can therefore keep watch of our little chicks as they hatch. We have tried doing a live video feed however this is impossible due to security reasons.

Please follow the link http://livingeggs.haveleyhey.net/ for info and what’s going on. And now over to someone else…

“What a great web page.  My cousin Jeanne Murray now Keech who lives in Canada emailed me about the page as she has discovered it and had written her memories.  I was interested to read the memories from Allan of Perth Australia.  From his comments about the dressmaking, I think he must be Allan Rostron who lived in Roughey Gardens off Newhey Road where I lived until I married some 35 years ago.  He must be thinking of when his mother made bridesmaids dresses for me and my cousin Sheila Murray also mentioned in memories for my sister Barbara’s wedding.  

I have many happy memories of Haveley Hey and its caring and dedicated staff.  From the “little side” I remember Mrs Yarwood, Mrs Alston and Miss Hadfield.  From the “big side” I remember Mr Lancaster, Mr Evans and “Pop” Chantler - I was in their classes.   Other memories are of Mr Geocock and the rounders team.  I too like Julie remember being told about the King and being given a Coronation Mug when our present Queen was crowned.  The May Queen event Julie talks about is another happy memory as I crowned Heather Wardle and had to wear my Whit Walks long white dress and veil.  I have a lovely photograph of us all after the ceremony.  I also have memories of  standing on the stage in the hall with other hopefuls singing while I think it was Miss Jackson came along listening to us, and waiting anxiously to see if I had picked to be in the choir.  

I sat the 11 plus and went on to Fallowfield C of E High School for Girls - I think I was possibly the first from Haveley Hey to go there.  Perhaps if anyone reads my memories and also went to Fallowfield they could write in and leave their name as I would love to contact them.  I eventually ended up teaching Business Studies but have since retired.  

Maybe the Norma Hardman who has written will remember my sister Barbara Ingham (now Sellers) and her friend Brenda Carter as they were both at Haveley Hey from 1937 to 1948.  If my memory is correct I think they were among the first pupils at the school. I will try to persuade my sister to send in her memories as she does have a lot of memories of the school and was there during the war years.  

 Shirley Ingham now Shirley Eaton “

Last week anohter former pupil contacted me from austrailia. This shows the influence that Haveley Hey has had on the wider world. It truly shows all the pupils that if they work hard and do their best they can accomplish anything and go anywhere!

 Let’s keep the dreams of the children alive and encourage them in all the postive interests they have.

I must have been one of Julie’s contemporaries, having also been three in 1947.
I don’t remember the occasion of the coronation, but I do remember our teacher (possibly Mr. Jackson) telling us the king had died.
The name Shirley Ingham rings a big bell in my memory. My mother did some dressmaking, and I remember having to stand on a chair wearing a dress she was making for Shirley while she fiddled with pins. I can still feel the indignity of having to wear a girl’s dress.
One of the most potent memories of my time at Haveley Hey has nothing to do with the school itself. It was the walk to school and back past that dense patch of woodland alongside Halfacre Road. In the early years it was not fenced off, and though I was always tempted to go into the wood to see what mysteries it might harbour, I think I only ever dared to enter it once. It had a powerful hold on my imagination, and I still dream about it.
Allan (in Perth, Australia)

Another quick update! Haveley Hey memories are coming in slowly but surely and I am really pleased to be reading some of the articles. Any suggestions from the wider world on how we can improve our site would be greatly recieved. You can email me at a.clarke@haveleyhey.manchester.sch.uk 

Another memory of times gone by in the building that is sadly no longer with us.

“I am not sure if this is the correct place for me to mention my memories of Haveley Hay School. I was 3 years old in 1947 when I started on the ‘little side’… I remember the tiny toilets, and I have other memories such as the maypole. I wanted so badly to be the May Queen but that year a girl called Heather Wardle was picked and I was very disappointed. We danced around the maypole then we marched around the hall and I was given a triangle to play………Wonders of wonders.

I remember the school nurse coming around and examining our heads to see if we had ‘nits’..one could always tell who did have them by the way their hair looked the next day. Short back and sides wasnt in it, and this was the girls.

It was a very important day when you moved up to the ‘big side’ My teachers were Mrs Alston, Mrs Hallam, Mr Evans and Mr Chantler. I can remember Mr Charlton being ill and the fourth year we were taken by Mr Evans and Miss Jackson.
My memories of Miss Jackson are getting the strap from her 5 times for talking in class, and i can also remember getting my upper legs smacked by Mr Evans.

I can remember the coronation of our Queen, and having a party. That year we were taken camping to Tintwhistle and thought we were so grown up…We sang our hearts out on the ‘Charra’ and had a wonderful few days.

Mr Evans told us that one day we would see spaceships go to the moon, and that man would walk on the moon. He said the astronauts would live in the spaceships for a long time and would eat dried food. So many of his predictions came true.

Most of my family went to Haveley Hey, including mt two sisters Jeanne and Sheila Murray, my cousins Janice and Karen Martin, and cousins Barbara and Shirley Ingham.

Sports day was also a very special day as our parents came and watched us race. I didnt win anything but I know my older sister did.

I took my scholarship and went on to MCHS for girls…. my memories of Havely Hey are mostly happy ones and as my sister Jeanne has already said we had a nice visit at the school.

I went to Canada in 1965 and returned back to Manchester in 2003. I live quite close to the school and have certainly come full circle in 40 years.

One other thing I do remember is the school dentist…who totally terrified me, was very rough and I think caused my lifelong fear of dentists…He used to have a caravan of sorts on the grounds of Benchill School.

We all loved but also respected our teachers in those days….

Thank you for allowing me to write about my memories..”

Sincerley Julie (Murray) Gilkes