To mark the opening of new classrooms, and a new look, to St Chrysostom’s School we’re posting a few blog posts about the school in the past. We’ve looked at the origins of the school (see here). Now we interview a former pupil who works at the school – Janice Hamadani.

Janice was at the school in the 1960s when it was on its former site on Carmoor Road (now occupied by Victoria Hall), although as she said, Year 6 children had to cross Upper Brook Street to their classroom above a hardware shop, on a site where the hospital now stands.

Janice attended the school from Nursery, and remembers sitting in circles of four in the nursery when each day the teacher, Mrs Grimshaw, using just one large spoon, gave each child a spoonful of cod liver oil with malt. The children would sit with raised open…