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Allan Moore
( taught at south wythenshawe high school late 60's early 70's )
You may have noticed i have mentioned Mr Moore's name several times on this site and on the
friends reunited site, he was my first year form teacher at the lower school (moss nook), and the 2yrs i was there he asked
me to help organise the christmas activities.
He was also my sisters favourite teacher, and after he emigrated to Australia she kept in touch
with him during the 70's.
The recent article about Anton King, gave me the impetus to try and contact him with the hope he
could add to the page.
I eventually found an e-mail address for the school he was last known to be teaching at and
gave it to my sister, she wrote to them asking if he was still teaching at the school, here is their reply............
Dear Ingrid,
My name is Ken Patino and I am Head of the English
Faculty at Casino
High School. Angela Froud is a
casual teacher who works often at my school and she
gave me a copy of your email, inquiring
about Allan
Moore. I certainly knew Allan. He was a member of the
English faculty for about 26 years and a valued member
of
staff.
Sadly to say, Allan passed away in May 1998, after an
illness with bowel cancer for about six months.
Allan
was preparing for retirement although he was
still enjoying his teaching. His mother and father
moved to Australia a
number of years earlier and they
had many wonderful years together living near each
other in Casino. They passed away
only a few years
prior to his own ill-health.
Allan's wife, Mavis, is still living in Casino. They
had planned
to build a new home for their retirement
and it was Allan's wish that Mavis go ahead and build
the new house, even though
he did not get to see the
construction started. Allan's daughter, Michelle, is
an architect, working near Cairns in
northern
Queensland. She planned the house with them and
supervised the building of it. His son, David, has a
successful
career in advertising and lives in Sydney.
I have enclosed for you the Citation that I presented
in honour of
Allan. This was read at a Formal School
Assembly at which Allan's teaching career was
commemorated and also printed
in Onward 1998, the
School Magazine.
ALAN MOORE
Casino High School
1975-1998
Mr Moore was an enthusiastic, energetic
and
warm-hearted teacher, who was much admired by his
students, fellow staff and the Casino community.
He had
a great love of literature and language, but
his knowledge was much broader. He was never content
with what he knew
and had a never-resting capacity to
gain new knowledge and try new things. He was a very
good communicator and had a
wonderful sense of humour.
His students, both junior and senior, found him to be
a very approachable person, who was
a great listener
and strongly believed in fair play.
Mr Moore willingly involved himself in many different
activities
within the school and the Casino community.
For most of his career he
taught English but he also took History, Music
and the
occasional VisArts class.
He was a great champion of School Musicals. For many
years, he was the producer
and director; at other
times, he was a singer/actor and tireless helper. He
was patron of the School Film Society, the
Student
Representative Council and countless School Choirs.
Soccer was his favourite sport and he thoroughly
enjoyed
coaching school soccer teams.
Mr Moore was a very positive teacher: he always sought
to find the potential for good
and growth in his
students. He was a champion of fair play. A wise and
intelligent man who was good fun to be with.
He was
more than a teacher; he was a role model of what he
taught to his students and a true friend to many, many
students
and teachers.
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I hope this
news is not distressing for you. However,
I was privileged to be a friend of Allan's as well as
his Head of Faculty.
We worked very well together and
he is still missed in our school.
Thank you for you interest and I hope this helps
you
with your enquiry. Please feel free to contact me if I
can be further assistance to you.
Ken Patino
Head
Teacher - English
Casino High School
The first news about a former teacher couldn't
have been worse, but the internet never ceases to amaze me how it can bring people together from all over the world.
Thanks to Ken Patino from Casino High School for
taking the time and effort to write such a compasionate and comprehensive reply, any former teachers or pupils that knew Mr
Moore and would like to contribute to this page please contact me.
Andy
How sad to read the news that Mr Moore had passed on.
Of course it will come to us all but hopefully not through bowel cancer. I remember him as being a very genuine, caring, compassionate
man who made time for pupils on an individual non-teaching level.
I hope he was aware of how many lives he touched, and
influenced. I don't write this with my rose tinted glasses on, some of the teachers weren't quite as influential. It's
no coincidence that his name, amongst a few others, comes up time and again on the two sites.
RIP
Andy, edit
or not as you see fit.
Regards
Anton
(please note: Antons letter has been edited with
his knowledge)
Hi Andy,
First let me say what a brilliant site you
have put together. I had someone design a website for my company a few years ago & it wasn't a patch on this.
Mr Moore was a great bloke. Teaching
Art suited him down to the ground I think. He had a serious flair for it. He seemed to know just which buttons
to push to get the best out of most of his pupils. Myself & some of my classmates used to call him 'Bruce'.
I'm not sure whether that was 'cause we thought he was Australian or something to do with a Monty Python sketch. It
certainly didn't bother him & I think he found it amusing (our Australian accents were pretty good as I recall).
Unfortunately some of the pupils in the school
had the habit of mistaking kindness for weakness and a few of the more troublesome pupils were confrontational towards Mr
Moore to say the least. One of the saddest memories I have is that of one of these miscreant pupils ( I think his name
was *NAME WITH-HELD*, but don't quote me on that) having a serious go at Mr Moore when we were all lined up in the playground,
waiting to go into school. I don't to this day know what the halfwit said to the teacher but, this extraordinarily
mild mannered man picked him up by the lapels & pushed him against a window, breaking the glass but fortunately doing
no more damage than that.
You can imagine the look of horror on all the
lads faces as we watched this spectacle. Afterwards, the rumours started & we were all convinced that Mr Moore would
get the push, though there were obviously over 100 witnesses as to the level of provocation. Thankfully the powers that be
were far more prepared to listen to the teachers than perhaps they would be today. Hopefully his tormentors will look
back with considerable remorse & regret.
A few years ago the government ran an advertising
campaign that had a slogan something along the lines of 'everybody remembers a good teacher'. Well, they hit the nail on the
head with that one. It's funny how, when you read the messages on the Friends Reunited site, that all the same names
keep cropping up time after time.
I can only reiterate what Anton has said &
add one thought. At the passing on of anyone, it is always good practice I think to ask yourself a simple question.
The question is this. "Is the world a lesser place for their passing". I think that the answer to this question
is most definitely 'YES'
Take it easy & keep up the brilliant work
Regards
Dave Dawbwer
*APPOLOGIES FOR DISPLAY PROBLEMS*(webmaster)
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