The head almost invariably took assembly in our school. Only rarely was he away, or, as we now say, “off-site”. On those occasions, the deputy head, Mr Clay, a man of scary aspect and icy demeanour, took assembly, always pointedly keeping it very short.
One memorable day, he excelled himself, with a reading which many of us, over half a century on, still remember word for word: “The apple tree shall not tell the pear tree how to grow.”
Whether or not it’s a quotation – and if it is I cannot track it down – the message is clear and offers enough discussion material to fuel a whole CPD course.
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