Oh Floss, not again!

I attended this school as a child up untill I left in 1976 aged 11, moving to secondary school Perry Common Comprehensive untill 1981. I had attended both the infant and the junior school at Kingsthorne. I remember playing british bulldog when I was at kingsthorne junior school back in 1976, from what I remember of the game it was a sort of tig/tag game all the kids lined up on one side of the playground and had to try to run to the other side without being tagged. I also recall the ghost stories of the world war 2 air pilot who used the haunt the old wooden classroom blocks which stood on the raised up section of the large rear playground, next to the nursery which formed part of the haunted wooden classrooms block and the wooden cook house block opposite off the tansley road entrance. Its believed that a RAF base and aircraft runway had meant to have once stood on the grounds of the school or had been located somewhere very close by but the old schools wooden huts had at one time meant to been used the house RAF Staff sometime during WW2? I do recall there being a RAF air cadet training base about half a mile away from the school, 425 RAF squardon? which used to be next to goodway nursery school on goodway road near to hawthrone road and kings road back then in 1976. I can’t remember who the headmaster was of the junior’s school was at kingsthrone was when I left in 1976 but I think it was a Mr Foster ?, but I remember Mrs Raven being the headmistress of the infant school. I can also remember a mrs mason a first year junior school teacher, mr dors or doors cant remember the correct spelling of his name, but he was my form teacher in 1976 when I left, Mr Martin who class room was next to our classroom and who’s class we always used to be in competition with. I recall having to walk from kingsthorne school going out of the cranbourne road entrance to kingstanding swimming baths which used to be on warren farm road near warren farm secondary school, the schools sport playing fields (or the ones the school used) used to be off tysoe road / burford road and kingstanding road about a one mile walk from the school (it seemed more like 5 miles away at that age ) where we had to walk to for football, cricket, and hockey for the girls practice. I recall the main part of the building being built in what I can only describe as being a sort of a 50p coin shape if viewed from the air with the two halls being built / placed either side of sort of 50p shaped building parallel to each other – one for the infant side of the school, one for the junior side of the school which used to be used for morning assembly, doubled up as the dining hall and sports hall. In the centre of this main building block was large grass / garden area which when I attended the infant school we used to hold our sports days on. Most years while I attend this school, both the junior and infant section of the school, separate from each other would hold summer and christmas concert / play. I remember my mother Mrs Ann Brookes and her good friend Mrs Floss Goodman I think her name was, had volunteered to sing with the children in the choir in the infant schools christmas concert, well my mom’s friend may have been a good singer but she often forgot the words to the song she was meant to have been singing and could be heard over everyone else singing the wrong words with the whispers of kids saying “miss miss your sing it wrong again ” or Mrs Raven the infants school headmistress and choir master shouting out ” oh Floss not again please do try to remember the words to the song !!” Thankfully Floss always managed to get it right on the night tho.