Hi Everybody I was a Pupil at Yew Tree High School Northern Moor, Manchester between 1979 and 1984. I am an Artist now and thought I would share some memories of my time at the school by way of Art and Stories of those days gone by. Hope you like the painting and video stories.
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Story by Andrew Alan Matthews
Yew Tree High School Northern Moor Aim True
What’s the score I hear you say
Chetham, Oldham and Hulme
Make room
For the naughty kids
knockin round class
Motto of the School
Aim True
Naughty kids tryin to undo
No clue
Yew Tree High l do
From 79 to 84
There’s more
And In class
Mr where boy
taught Maths
and Mr English
taught English
He was Funny enough
And a teacher
nick named slap head
Knocked you round yer head
Or givin Detention instead
Writin lines over and over again
On the old school table
that flipped up and down
giggling town
teachers frown
and get down
years of scribblin
etchin yer name in the table
able
And metal work teacher
with steel rulers
Smacked yer ass
with chalk mark
fool or tool
on yer bum
don’t look glum
it was fun
couldn’t get away with it these days
too PC Brigade
naughty kids ran amok
back in the day
Bunsen burners
shootin water fountains
In chemistry class
It was class
In A block
From 79 to 84
dinner hall
condoms in metal water jugs
from thugs
fights in playground
circling and spittin greeneys
at two in a fight
teachers outta sight
then there was me
tryin to learn
and earn
needed glasses
wouldn’t wear em
didn’t want to be called
specky four eyes
so I sat at the front of class
tryin to see the blackboard
holes in me shoes
soakin freezing feet
no treat
soggy butties at dinner time
wished I could have
hot food
in the dinner hall
they had pizzas and chips
I was lickin me lips
So now and again
when I got money
From me newspaper round
Or mind yer car Mr
in the Moss
I’d buy 25p dinner ticket
Off one of the lads
Glads
At Dinner time
Knockin about
with me class mates
Playin hide n seek
in the bushes
At the back of the school
Or down the Mersey
In me Yew Tree Jersey
And A block
where they taught Art
Mr De Vere
a cool teacher
wasn’t a preacher
a good teacher
Encouraged me
let me be free
express myself
be an Artist he said
look to history
mystery
I Lived for the days
when they taught Art
So lookin back
At the good old days
With Nostalgia in my eyes
I can say
“I Aimed True”
Cos now
I’m an Artist in Northern Moor
Painting a scene
A Yew Tree Scene
So Yeah
Yew Tree High School Northern Moor
What’s the score I hear you say
Chetham, Oldham and Hulme
Boom
The Artists in the room
https://youtu.be/c9vlgiGnCDI