New Headmaster
A St Angela’s story from Roué 14
A school year has ended at St Angela’s, and after a short
summer holiday a new academic year has begun.
Mr Payne, headmaster, wielder of canes and smacker of
bottoms, has resigned. Those who know him can hardly believe that he has gone
of his own free will — there is a strong suspicion that he must have been
offered an even better job than the one he has held for some years at St Angela’s.
What that better job could possibly be has exercised the imaginations of the
remaining staff considerably, though to no avail.
He has been replaced, through the good offices of Mr
Grimsley, by a certain Mr Ingham. Mr Ingham is a somewhat younger man, in his
early fifties, and already, though term has barely started, the new headmaster
has been playing ‘new brooms’ with a vigour that has left many somewhat out of
their depth.
The school uniform has been drastically changed, and in a
rather confusing way. For some reason Mr Ingham has decided that it has to be
possible to tell, from the angle at which one might apply a cane to a
schoolgirl’s bottom, exactly which year the bottom belongs to without resorting
to what some might regard as a simpler method, that of question and answer.
There are rumours, though unconfirmed as yet, that the regulations, such as
they were, appertaining to corporal punishment in the school are to be changed.
Mr Evans, who is sulking profoundly at not being offered the headmastership, is
busy organising strike action should it transpire that his penchant for
knicker-removing has in any way been threatened with curtailment. Mr Ingham, a
cool-headed man, has so far remained unmoved by the possibility of industrial
action.
One rumour which has been confirmed is
that there is to be a school magazine — well, kind of — which is apparently to
be published by an outfit who trade under the name of Roué, up in London
somewhere. The first issue is promised for October, or so Mr Ingham says. One
hopes that by then the new regime at St Angela’s will have settled down into
something like the old regime again.
The only other thing to say is that the whole of the upper
year, the old 8A and 8B, have been sent out into society in their hope that
their time at the school has taught them something more than how to say ‘Yes
sir’ when told to get their knickers down. The exception is Rosalind Bottomley,
who through Mr Evans’ machinations has been obliged to stay for a further year,
as explained previously.
By way of compensation there has been an influx of new
girls, whose names appear below, and whom Mr Ingham has undertaken to introduce
to the school in his own rather mysterious way.
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