Teachers A to E
 '?' Indicates uncertain of subject(s) taught  'C 19??' indicates that the person appear on the list of tutors, for that year. 

English, Deputy Head Teacher, later to become  Head Teacher, Deptford Green School Far picture taken at 30 year reunion in 1986

Roy Hunt recalls " What is not known by everybody was the fact he was an accomplished Artist and some of his work was exhibited in the Heads Study-also the school coat of arms on the wall by main entrance was his work"

You can see some of his work in the pictures section (1956 On - Gallery Two).

Geography and House/Year Mistress c.1980-98 (has left and returned several times)

Geography. Saxon Housemaster and left to become a Head Teacher. First pictures taken in 2005, the far one at 30 year reunion in 1986

Art c 1975

She took 4th yr and upwards for Horse Riding, which, back in the 70s was part of the Field Games programme.

Philip Wingate recalls - He led the first Elliott school trip to Russia in 1966 (or 67), He later imported a Russian "Volga" car perhaps to show some solidarity with USSR. It certainly was the talk of the school at the time.
 

Music c1972. In an item in the Comprehensive News for 1972, Celt House News congratulated Miss Bayfield, C36 on being promoted to Head of Music for next year.

Physics 1960's, Married Anne Bulmer  

Steve Tolhurst recalls that a number of boys were brought to Mr Beach for filling contraceptives with Helium in one of the labs, and floating them out of the window. He fixed them with a stare of disbelief and said "Don't be so bloody wasteful. Get Out!"

He add Bernie was an inspirational teacher and the main reason I went on to read physics.

Barbara Pollard says "She inspired and motivated me to achieve my chosen career as a science teacher"

Karlen Lawrence ( Major) recalls. "She used to live in Friday Street near Guildford and every Autumn collected hazel nut cases and cones etc., which we painted gold and silver, made into brooches and sold at the annual school fair".

Les Thomas Recalls "Brilliant. Bless her. She really tried but we must have frustrated the hell out of her. Pearls before swine springs to mind".

Mother of Tim Berners-Lee, now recognised as the 'inventor' of the World Wide Web. Tim did not attend the Elliott, but went to  the Emmanuel School instead.

It is said she had a very relaxed "non-teacher style" more in keeping with a Mathematician rather than a professional teacher.

See Link http://www.tramuntana.infoarta.com

Picture from the 2006 reunion

Produced "The Winslow Boy" at Elliott. Studied under Colin Davis and conducted the LSO in a Concert at the Albert Hall. Later he conducted and taught music at conservatories in Australia and New Zealand.

He died in 1989.

Dawn Nevard (was Long) recalls "she had thin lips and was very stern, she had her hair tied back in a bun. I was a Dane. I believe it was her who got me and my friend up in front of the whole class and measured the height of our hair against the blackboard with a ruler, it was the days of the beehive, I believe I won, I was never so embarrassed, I was so shy then, not now though".

Karlen Lawrence ( Major) says "Was a bit of a socialist. Unfortunately I missed out on the film about the birds and bees because I was naughty and she banned me from the session. Held me back for years. Nevertheless an excellent teacher."

Girls PE (Probably head of Girls PE). Later Mrs Chollet-Hein (married Jeremy Hein) BW Picture shows Mr & Mrs Hein in 1976

Les Cooper recalls: "He drove an ancient motor cycle that was always backfiring up and down Merton Road. Sometimes it broke down and he arrived late at school – We all knew when he arrived and I think he enjoyed the noise of all the boys cheering him in, sometimes in assembly, sometime during class"

Music. Later picture taken in 2005

Picture from 1974

English,  House Mistress,  Deputy Head c.1963
(Died tragically at the wheel of a car)

Graham Holley recalls "She made us - as sixth formers - line up outside her classroom door when we first started English with her. She soon relented, having established her authority! A great teacher."
 

Left to take up a headship at Cator Park School in Bromley

English, retrained to teach Catering

Far Picture taken at the 30 year reunion in 1986

Barbara Stewart recalls "She was a forbidding authority figure to me until the beginning of sixth form. I had eight good passes at o level but had failed English Language. I
wanted to do two science and two maths A levels but timetabling did not permit this if I was also to re-take English Language- so Miss Dean volunteered to tutor me individually in my free periods for the English re-take.

We sat in her office and read Dickens together and discussed the allsorts-more like a university tutoring session than an o level retake-this was a revelation to me as she talked about her experiences. Her kindness enabled me to pass the re-take comfortably."

Edmund Hodges says "Her Grandmother was Dame Sibyl Thorndyke, and Diana helped in the planning of the Shakespeare Globe Theatre reconstruction by the Thames I am told".

1973-2001 Head of History until 2001

Now Honorary Archivist of the Elliott School.

Picture shows Mark re-enacting a scene from Batman, with him playing a flying Joker.

(He notes he did also teach Drama at the Elliott)

Picture taken at the 30 year reunion in 1986