An account of life in a State Girls' School 1959-1966 from nervous First Years through to A levels in the Sixth form. Vivid personal memories were assisted by a diary, resourcefully retained through the decades by the co-writer. The School had an autocratic Headmistress and there were some Teachers with idiosyncratic teaching styles, but all were fascinating characters and school life was never dull. The recollections unfold against the background of the events and fashions of the beginning of the 'Swinging Sixties'.