Talk:St Clement Danes School

Have noticed the comments about houses at Ducane Road is incorrect. I attended the school from '63 to '70 and there were 8 houses then. In addition my father attended the school in '30s and he was in Clare House, in fact he was very disappointed I wasn't in Clare House as it was customary for boys from the same family to be in the same house. My belief is that there were originally 4 houses. Those houses were Clement, Dane, Clare and Temple. The other 4 were added some time between 1945 and 1963, probably well before 1963. The colours for the houses during my time at the school were:- Essex: White Exeter: Black Dane: Gold Clare: Light Blue Burleigh: Claret (always been more of a Bordeaux man) Temple: Dark Blue Lincoln: Green Clement: Red At Ducane Road the houses had nothing to do with forms.

The School Uniform at Ducane Road was a green blazer with an anchor on the pocket and we were often said to be from the 'Rusty Anchor'. We wore a purple, yellow and green striped tie, and the school scarf was the same st of colours. Six-formers wore black blazers.

Someone who can recall when the school changed from 4 to 8 houses should insert this if they think it's worth it. (Victor Middlesex (talk) 10:23, 6 April 2013 (UTC))

I may be wrong but I'd consider that L S Suggate was worthy of being one of the notable staff members. He was a very famous schoolteacher who published a number of books on Geography during the '20s and '30s. These were the standard textbooks used in Schools: in fact his books were still used by us in the '60s. You can still buy those books from Amazon. Some of his books were written in conjunction with Sir Dudley Stamp, who was one of the foremost Geographers of the 20th Century. A point of interest that in the '80s I met a gentleman called Arthur Meux, who was also a renowned Geography Schoolteacher (don't know where but his published books [mainly on mapping] are also still available on Amazon) who asked if I knew anything about Suggate. I told him he taught my father, who said he used a lot of projected films in his lessons, while often teaching in the dark as he believed pupils took in more. Some of his books were updated in the '60s/'70s in conjunction with his SCD successor A D Nicholls (who was my master). (Victor Middlesex (talk) 18:09, 11 April 2018 (UTC))