I joined Menzies in 1971 at a time when schools were desperate to appoint teachers. Menzies was just changing from a grammar chool to a comprehensive and a lot of the experienced staff had decided to move on.
I had done a long teaching practice at Menzies early in the year and then back to college to work on my 30,000 word essay - this was a shock as I had written no essays since A level General studies three years before. One day I got a message to say would I ring the Head of Maths at Menzies? I did so - if I was looking for as job they had some maths vacancies - could I go for interview that afternoon? I went to meet the Headmaster - I was at least one hour late - public transport! It did not matter. Head very friendly. He said while he had waited he had filled an application form in for me if I was interested. I was interested and had to fill in the rest and make some minor corrections. I had to drop the form in at the local Education office on my way back to Birmingham.The LEA gave me a list of places to live in West Bromwich. So I had my first job and soon had my first digs!
I discovered later tht the Headmaster had spent the morning touring local teacher training colleges recruiting other staff. Three of us joined in September as brand new maths teachers.
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well you would have had plenty of essay experience if you had not been doing a wishy washy subject like maths
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