Last updated Jan 15 2003
 


Farnworth Grammar School
Personal Profile

Alan Birtles


 

  • 1955: Left the confines of FGS for Sheffield University.
  • 1959: Having obtained a Honours Maths degree I started teaching at King Edward VII School Lytham St Annes, a Direct Grant School.
  • 1961: Moved to Hastings Grammar School in Sussex. In Hastings I played a great deal of cricket and football for Hastings Ramblers and Old Hastonians.
  • 1968: Became Head of Department at Nottingham Bluecoat G.S.
  • 1976: Still in Nottinghamshire but now Head of Department at the Minster School Southwell where I found myself teaching the son of one of my first Lytham pupils.
  • 1986: A final move to Weybridge in Surrey to the post of Head of Department at St George's College, an Independent School.
  • 1997: Retirement and an escape from all those years of mathematics and pupils of widely differing ability.
  • After 42 years of marriage, and at the last count, our son in Australia had presented us with two grandchildren and our daughter in Germany had gone one better.