Well here's a Craigie High School classroom I was never in - the Domestic Science room. I haven't even got a clue who the teachers were. In fact, this image is the first time I've seen inside the place.The photo was taken on 17th August 1970, just before the school first opened, hence the bare look.
What's the "Science" in it refer to anyway? Learning how a can opener works?!!
Photo by DC Thomson.
was that round the back where the woodwork classes were?
ReplyDeleteI HAD TO HIDE IN ONE OF THESE CUPBOARDS WHEN WE SPOTTED THE MEN WHO WERE PUTING IN INSULATION IN THE SCHOOL WERE ALSO BOUNCERS AT TIFFANYS!!! CLOSE CALL BUT WE GOT AWAY WITH IT.
ReplyDeleteDomestic Science was along the bottom corridor underneath English. A place I hardly ever went!
ReplyDeleteIt's called Home Economics these days.
It was called Cookery when I was at the Harris.
ReplyDeleteIn the early to mid 80s when I was at Craigie, the Home Economics department has Mrs Penhale (nee McGuire, she was our reggie teacher) and Mrs Scotland. I agree, 'Domestic Science' is pushing it: when we were lumbered with it in 1st and 2nd year we were taught how to bake biscuits and make egg salas, and how to sew a snake-shaped draught excluder together. (Although we also put together a huge flag for when United won the league in '83!).
ReplyDeleteIt was "Home Ecky" when I was at another CHS (Carnoustie HS) in the late 1980s.
ReplyDeleteI remember learning how to make beans on toast and chocolate bananas, and feeling really groggy after each lesson due to the heat given off by all the ovens. We also had sewing lessons (embarrassing for 13 year old guys), and I remember making a cushion cover with a picture of a ZX Spectrum on it.
Happy days!
I also had Ms McGuire as my home economics teacher, who can forget her, she was mental... she used to grab people by the hair and she also gave me the bely for commenting on the amount of holes in the cloths we were using!!!
ReplyDeletePenhale-previously McGuire but born Thorpe.
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