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counters when doing sums, and reading from books whose names I’ve forgotten. On one of

the walls was a large chart with all our names, one above the other, to which gold, silver or
red stars were added when we achieved something special in our lessons. A few names had

lots of stars but most had few. Break took place in the backyard where we sat on a carpet

pulled out of a store-room and ate our sandwiches. There was enough space to play ‘block’
and other games. Occasionally Mrs Cass took us on an expedition to the Kalk Bay waterfall

where we collected frogs and frogs’ eggs in tins and brought them back to the yard where they

lived a while or escaped to the nearby drain.

Family names of fellow pupils during the time of my sister Anebell and I were: Peter & Mark

Liddell, Dawn, Colleen, Geoffrey & Carol Hare, Robin & Susan Solomon, Wendy & Gillian
Bryson, Patrick & Alex Morris, Nick Taylor, William Crawford, John Duffield, Donald

Evans, Margaret York, Maureen Williams and Stephen Smith. We had been preceded, among

others, by Michael Fielding, Billie York, Pam Stuart-Findlay, Paul Schipper, James &
Graham Simpson, Duard & David Schulze, Debbie Toy, Mike & Neville Walker, Dave &

Peter Olive, Nula & Jack Moore, Laurie Hill, Penny Green, Marion Jones and Peter Sand.

Among others who followed us were Derek and Malcolm Stuart-Findlay.

Mrs Cass was like a mother to each of us, warm and encouraging. Her standard response to

wails of “I can’t do this” was: “There’s no such word as can’t.” And so we kept on trying.

After completing Sub B we dispersed to other schools nearby where all the teachers

recognised the soundness of the preparation we’d received at Mrs Cass’s. The school closed
in the early 1950s.