Worst School (Name)
We had a post a while ago on inappropriate school names and it was pointed out that The Worst of Perth editor’s own primary school might fall into the same category. So here is Mary’s Mount Primary School in Davies Road Gooseberry Hill, where the character of The lazy Aussie was formed. I still remember the nuns belting us with custom leather straps for whatever heinous crimes tiny little primary school children commit.
The Original Mounted Mary.
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i will prbably go to hell for this… but we used to refer to it iconoclastically as ‘mary’s mount of joseph’.
the unopened flower in the photo is rather suggestive, isn’t it?
After 25 years of photography I couldn’t really claim that the composition was accidental.
Passing on a comment from Cimbali Junior who spent some time at this school a couple of years ago – “Wasn’t Mary’s mount a donkey?”
hung like a donkey.
Looking at the expression on that statue, I don’t think the unopened flower is “suggesting” anything at all.
I wish the ceramic koala and kookaburra statues were still there, they would definitely feature on W of P
St Munchins in Gosnells.
Stupid stupid name.
You jokin’ Jono? Really?
Dead serious. Worst school name ever I think.
Actually worst school ever.
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that was stolen wen i was in yr 1 and then then someone put it back in the other garden
Despite the name, it’s a lovely school and great community!!
is the grotto still there? cos my memory of it would make it a great worst.
i went there with tla, and can confirm that the many beatings administered by the nuns, particularly one sister leo, go a long way to explain this blog.
I think Sister Leo Carked it only recently. Strapping grade 4 primary school kids. Amazing. I’m not sure if grotto still extant. Don’t think so.
You both went to Mary’s Mount?? Being a GHPS alum, I should hate youse cunts. I think I may have tagged the basketball backboard there, during the week of my teens where I fancied myself as the Banksy of the Darling Escarpment.
Hey Bento I went there – but married a GHPS man. Inaugural Captain of Mason no less!
It’ll never work, Cimbali.
I was an O’Connor man. Didn’t all the Mason boys have webbed toes or something?
I mean I went to MM.
Curious I had the chance to run over sister Leo a couple of years ago, she was staggering just a little too close to the edge of the road on her way to the bus stop outside St Emily’s – but in the end I couldn’t do it.
By the way St Emily’s is up for sale this week it is apparently
32 000sqm of land but I haven’t stopped to read the rest of the notice. Maybe a consortium of TWOP members could purchase it and run a cult out of the old nunnery.
ah, sister leo – do you remember how she made the girls stand on their chairs to strap the backs of our legs?
i love st emily’s – i lived across the road for a few years and really enjoyed the view.
I go to “Marys Mount” and it isn’t that bad.
Its good it just in parts because they are renovating
My kids go here (it’s a lovely school now – shame about the bad history I’ve read on your posts) My daughter says it gets its name because Mary built it and it’s on a mountain!
I assumed that’s the cleaned up version.
i am personally offended by some of your comments, i went to that school for 8 years. i just left last year and would already go back if i could. the overpriced high school i go to now was nothing compared to this school so just stop please
Um, doesn’t primary school take 7 years?
The sign says “Kindergarten to Year 7″ so I would assume that is how ‘Hey’ spent 8 years there.
Aha – right you are. I thought maybe HEY was a bit slower than the other chirren to pick up the banjo, or gluing googly eyes to gumnuts, and was held back in Grade 2.
high school was shit this year, was it?
hey, and others – apart from the name (which is funny) and some comments about a nun who taught there in the 1970s, we haven’t actually said anything about the school.
it was a lovely school, i enjoyed going there, my nieces and nephews enjoyed it.
but it has a very silly name.
we haven’t said anything about the school – but since you asked…
I went there and it was uneventful – apart from Sister Leo. Sent my daughter there for three years because we moved around the corner and was seriously unimpressed with the educational standards. My daughter who is very bright spent most of the time marking other peoples spelling and they were very anti actually giving her anything challenging to do in case she thought she was too clever or something.
The level of behaviour in the classrooms was atrocious and the language from the year 3 boys was extraordinary.
When I made a complaint to the Principle about year four boys discussing F**king girls in front of me during a parent help session I was told that:
“You can’t expect everyone to have the same values as you – I mean some parents allow their kids to watch the Simpsons.”
HELLO what else is a Catholic School for but to have the same values?
and the Simpsons!!! I have never heard Bart using the language I heard at MM
This was four years ago and the pastoral care was seriously lacking and only dogma was given any importance.
As long as you went to church it didn’t matter how you behaved in the class room.
I can only hope that it has improved in the last few years.
Yeah and I blame that mother fucking YouTube!
I am also an alumnus of this wonderful instution, and grew up on Davies Crescent. Happy times. Bloody good school- John Downey’s whiskey tan is a particularly fond memory.
Any of you who made use of the BMX track in the gravel down the back owe me (and the other neighbourhood kids circa 1983) a lasting debt of gratitude
Hi mate. I have just heard how the grotto is no more too.
My!
Standards are slipping.
Sounds like the standards have reduced to keep pace with the size of the school (grounds)…
Was imprisoned there from 1961 to ’64…. when there were only 3 girls amongst the boys… and Sister Amelia wielded the lump of 2″ x 1″ pine to keep our souls out of hell, and our swimming pool was surrounded by huge veggie gardens…with a paddock below replete with a couple of milking cows.
– Them were th’ days ! – Unpasturized milk, weevils in the weeties, slugs in the spuds and we had to do our own dishwashing & sweeping etc.
- And the outside dunnies had a billion dollar view of Perth, when the highest building was Royal Perth Hospital.
It was the only high building….
PS, the current staff tell me that they’re having a “90th” year celebration next year. Would be great if some of the Nuns showed up! (*with* leather straps & 2×1 stick)
i go to mary ‘s mount and it is the best school ever and it has the best name so get me a 10 dollars for saying my school is bad
Well they don’t allow Sister Leo to strap your arse back to the stoneage anymore.