Rockwell and Write

School teachers – Rockwell
Pupils – Assembly bell
Line-up in school’s playground
March to class for register round

Slateboards – blackboards – exercise jotter
(Teacher’s pet was a little rotter)
Parrot-fashioning times tables
Discovering Alice and Aesop’s Fables

Catch-as-catch-can (playtime games)
Film starts’ initials – guess their names
Skipping ropes – relay races
P.T. – thro’ the paces

Sirens screaming out alarm
Air raids – sheltering from harm
School doctor’s medical – headlice – scabies
Innocence of storks and babies

Monday had its firm rule
Being kept at home from school
Younger sisters and younger brother
Monday was wash-day for my mother

School song ‘Rockwell and Right’
Sung at pitch with verve and might
School days gave me pleasure
And appreciation of rhyme and measure