Miss Whyte had very cool handwriting, as this little extract proves. My mates and I simply adored her big red ticks. See for yourself...

Meanwhile the verb to ‘drive’ (fahren), and its various conjugations, always guaranteed a laugh or two. As did the knowledge, gained later from our German assistant, of a composer called Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654).

Sprich Mal Deutsch? You bet!