Oxbridge Lane Primary School
At Oxbridge Lane Primary School, Oxbridge, Stockton from 1985 – 1991 I had a wonderful six years. The school was a large multicultural school with pupils from a variety of faiths. It had a good reputation in the area with hard working teachers who provided their pupils with a varied and interesting curriculum.
During this period I had responsibility for developing the maths curriculum, as I favoured a more practical, hands on, approach to learning, and PE, as I enjoyed sport, teaching PE throughout the school at times. Alongside activities organised by the school, I organised many additional school activities during my six years at the school.
I taught the older classes (Year 5,6), with a different class each year, except 1987-89 when I had the same class at Year 5 then Year 6. This class had some challenging pupils, but I had a wonderful two years with them, as we had a great understanding.
In 1987, with other teachers from Oxbridge, I took Year 6 pupils to Asnieres, a small taken near Paris, where we stayed in a boarding school. The school was closed to pupils for the holidays, and used by other schools that wanted to visit Paris. We travelled to France by coach, a very long and uncomfortable journey. We had two travelling days and six days in France.
We had a barbecue with members of the local community and a disco during our stay at the school. Everyone was very hospitable. During our visits to Paris we visited all the usual sights; Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower, Sacre-Coeur, Champs-Elysees, Notre-Dames de Paris, Le Louvre, Montmartre, Centre George Pompidou and Versailles. We also visited many other sites including Place du Trocadero where there were some very talented and skilful teenagers on roller boots, performing some incredible acrobatic feats in front of a delighted audience of tourists.
Eiffel Tower Paris 1987 The Seine from Eiffel Tower Paris 1987 Eiffel Tower Paris 1987 Arc de Triomphe from Eiffel Tower Paris 1987 Trocadero from Eiffel Tower Paris 1987 Window of Notre Dame de Paris 1987 Sacre Coeur from Eiffel Tower Paris 1987 Fun and games with our French hosts in Asnieres Paris 1987 Fun and games with our French hosts in Asnieres Paris 1987 Fun and games with our French hosts in Asnieres Paris 1987 Fun and games with our French hosts in Asnieres Paris 1987 Versailles France 1987 Versailles France 1987 Versailles France 1987 Versailles France 1987 Versailles France 1987 Vicki Nicholson in Paris 1987 Some of our hosts, Paris 1987 Thelma Blackwood and Chris Browell Paris 1987 Versailles France 1987 Our hosts provide a welcome buffet, Asnieres Paris 1987 Paris 1987 Dancing with our French hosts at a disco Asnieres Paris 1987 Paris 1987 School Playground Asnieres Paris 1987 Our hosts provide a welcome buffet, Asnieres Paris 1987 Notre Dame de Paris 1987 Notre Dame de Paris 1987 Thelma Blackwood Paris 1987 Group Paris 1987 Sacre Coeur 1987 Eiffel Tower 1987 Group Paris France 1987 Fountain in a park Paris 1987 Fish spotting Paris 1987 Scale map of France with Eiffel Tower silhouette display 1987 Scale map of France display 1987 Davis J Atkinson Paris 1987 Oxbridge pupils in Paris 1987 Oxbridge pupils (Emily Griffin) in Paris 1987 Meal time in Asnieres Paris France 1987 Asnieres Paris 1987 Bus in Paris 1987 Arc de Triomphe, Paris 1987 Thelma Blackwood and Chris Browell in Paris 1987 Disco meal with our local community hosts Asnieres 1987 Jeremy Medhurst and Mark ? Paris 1987 Paris 1987 Vicki Nicholson, Chris Browell and Thelma Blackwood Paris 1987 Montmartre Paris 1987 Vicki Nicholson Paris 1987 Chris Browell and Thelma Blackwood paris 1987 Jonathan Medhurst and ? Paris France 1987 Oxbridge pupils in Paris 1987 Fantastic roller skating displays Trocadero Paris 1987 Oxbridge staff and pupils Pompidou Centre Paris 1987 Pompidou Centre Paris 1987 Pompidou Centre Paris 1987 Pompidou Centre Paris 1987 View of Arc de Triomphe 1987 Luxor Obelisk, Place de la Concorde, Paris 1987 Jeremy Medhurst Paris 1987 Versailles Versailles Paris
