"Doss" lessons....
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"Doss" lessons....
Reading the new Harry Potter book (sorry, but I do like them!) - she mentions a lesson being a "doss"....a word I'd completely forgotten!
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Doss: meaning to scive (or is that skive?), bunk off, mess about, not do much, divert attention from curricular activities. A 'doss lesson' would usual involve an easily side-tracked teacher (such as Smeggy O'Meara) or even better - no teacher at all. Does anyone recall the 15 minute rule - if the teacher hadn't turned up within 15 minutes of the lesson starting you could leave.
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No 15 minute rule in my day.marty wrote:Doss: meaning to scive (or is that skive?), bunk off, mess about, not do much, divert attention from curricular activities. A 'doss lesson' would usual involve an easily side-tracked teacher (such as Smeggy O'Meara) or even better - no teacher at all. Does anyone recall the 15 minute rule - if the teacher hadn't turned up within 15 minutes of the lesson starting you could leave.
I don't ever remember a teacher NOT turning up.
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Doss Lessons
Never remember a 15 minute rule but we certainly invoked something.
We had Roger Biddick?? for Russian in the top classroom nearest Big side in the Maths block. (For those who remember, Pop Massen's room).
Our class started at 10.55 I think.
He was nearly always late and once we waited until 11 struck and a bit more and then as quietly as possible, went down the stairs and out of the block, scattering along the quarter mile.
As I came out I looked right and saw a bemused Biddick under the arch, watching us all leave.
We only had Russian once a week, a sort of elective for Grecians, and the next week, he was on time and made no mention of the Great Escape.
We had Roger Biddick?? for Russian in the top classroom nearest Big side in the Maths block. (For those who remember, Pop Massen's room).
Our class started at 10.55 I think.
He was nearly always late and once we waited until 11 struck and a bit more and then as quietly as possible, went down the stairs and out of the block, scattering along the quarter mile.
As I came out I looked right and saw a bemused Biddick under the arch, watching us all leave.
We only had Russian once a week, a sort of elective for Grecians, and the next week, he was on time and made no mention of the Great Escape.
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Tom Keeley was the best for that.. I deliberately got into the bottom set in Latin so I could get him.. He either fell asleep or read from Lord of the Rings...
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I seem to remember geog with Gunning to be pretty cool.. Half the lesson spend shooting the breeze about anything we liked and then the other half doing geog...
Nice, because this garnered our respect for him and thus we all wanted to concentrate in the second half of the lesson.
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I seem to remember geog with Gunning to be pretty cool.. Half the lesson spend shooting the breeze about anything we liked and then the other half doing geog...
Nice, because this garnered our respect for him and thus we all wanted to concentrate in the second half of the lesson.
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slater was always a gooddun for sidetracking about the sewers in rome, or smeggy about the shrapnel in his head.
i don't think the 15 minute rule ever formally existed. it was certainly infamous though. you had to be really quiet when waiting outside the classroom otherwise the teacher next door would come out, bitch at you, and send for a replacement teacher from the school office.
i don't think the 15 minute rule ever formally existed. it was certainly infamous though. you had to be really quiet when waiting outside the classroom otherwise the teacher next door would come out, bitch at you, and send for a replacement teacher from the school office.
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Mr Fleming rocks! He was the reason I actually enjoyed Latin on my Squits - nothing like learning how to swear to make classes interesting. "Flocci non facio" is still one of my most favourite phrases.
I was also very fond of his euphemisms; who remembers what Caecilius and Metella got up to in the horto? That's right, they were "having a chat"... apparently. This meant huge hilarity when another master inadvertently used one of the phrases that Mr F had hijacked. That way he got us on side early on and we respected him for gently taking the mickey out of the other masters. Pure genius.
Food and Nut was generally a "doss" lesson, plus we got something (vaguely) edible out of it... or RE/History/etc when the teacher couldn't be bothered and a Black Adder/Monty Pyton/etc video was guaranteed to keep us amused!
I was also very fond of his euphemisms; who remembers what Caecilius and Metella got up to in the horto? That's right, they were "having a chat"... apparently. This meant huge hilarity when another master inadvertently used one of the phrases that Mr F had hijacked. That way he got us on side early on and we respected him for gently taking the mickey out of the other masters. Pure genius.
Food and Nut was generally a "doss" lesson, plus we got something (vaguely) edible out of it... or RE/History/etc when the teacher couldn't be bothered and a Black Adder/Monty Pyton/etc video was guaranteed to keep us amused!
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