Summer 1962
January 1963
Summer 1963
Summer 1964
Paul Lamont and Russell Harvey have kindly supplied these certificates for publication. Correspondence with other ‘old boys’ suggests that they either never collected the certificates in the first place or were never asked to present them anywhere and like my own, can no longer be found.
Summer 1962
January 1963
Summer 1963
Summer 1964
Paul Lamont’s Certificates
Summer 1963
Summer 1964
Summer 1965
Summer 1966
Russell Harvey’s Certificates
Paul comments…
“Boringly I have preserved mine in top quality polythene folders but
interestingly they show the transition from the individually typed posh
certificate SUMMER 1962 to computer generated and printed, JANUARY 1963. They
were printed on that miles long computer paper and I can see the
perforations top and bottom. La Raison d’être of F.G.S being to produce
successful G.C.E pupils was so successful it caused this implementation of the
computerised certificates in 1963, peut-être?”
The certificates also show the introduction of the grade system. In earlier years, if what I remember of the J.A.B.’s explanation is correct, is that the headmaster was given a list of the percentage marks obtained which was supposed to be confidential. However the J.A.B. showed a rebellious streak and released the numbers to anyone interested. I can still remember most of mine. The pass mark varied from year to year. It was 47% for my first exams and 45% for later ones.
Malcolm Knight, July 2010