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Mike Roebuck

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  1. I just found this forum while looking for something else. I was at EGS from 1964 to 1971, so I experienced, but wasn't subject to, the change to a Comprehensive school (I stayed on my Grammar school curriculum when it happened). I recognise some of the teacher's names that others have mentioned in previous posts. I have both good and bad memories of the school, but I'll always be grateful to the teachers there for recognising and nurturing my talent for languages (and for forgiving my lack of ability in other fields, especially sciences). I think the ability to specialise was a great help to me, and probably to many others, too. For the first two years, the first and second forms were at what had previously been Ecclesfield Secondary School (and later became Ecclesfield Junior School), just off Ecclesfield High Street, so teachers had to travel between the two schools a lot of the time. My languages (French, German and Italian) led to an international career with British Rail in Germany and Switzerland and these days I translate German to English for a living. I have a son and daughter-in-law who live in Switzerland and have just become a grandfather to a baby girl, my first grandchild. None of this would have happened without my EGS education and, if I didn't appreciate then what a good school it was, I certainly do now. David (Das) Smith taught me French for 4 years and also taught me Italian and got me through the O-level exam at the second attempt, after less than two years' lessons - he even provided a Linguaphone course to help me. At the time, I never dreamed that I'd end up living in Switzerland for twenty years, using all three of the languages I'd learned. I attended a school reunion in 2001, just after I moved back to the UK, when former teachers Geoff Jennett and John Shaddock turned up. I'd never had either of them as teachers, but it was nice to see them. It's always nice to read other peoples' memories of the school.
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