When I was in the Infant's School I vividly remember being sat on a large wooden rocking horse, along with a few other children and hanging on to its mane for dear life.

The headmistress at the time was Mrs Clark who was later replaced by Miss Rein.

I will never forget Canon Phelan who would visit our class to check who was at Mass the previous Sunday.

One of our teachers was Terry (Tich) Stevens later became headmaster when Mr Smith retired. He was a great teacher, headmaster and loved football.

Many years later, I was looking through the sports section of the Cardiff Yesterday Books and discovered he was in quite a few of the photographs as he was coach for the Cardiff Schools Football League.

In his office when he was headmaster, he proudly had the very same photographs hanging on the wall. Then I understood why he always had us kicking footballs about.

Other teachers I remember from those years was Mr Taylor who was the music teacher, Mr Spear, Mrs Steele, Mrs Steer, Mr Chidgey, Maureen Sexton and Miss Parle.

At the time I always thought St Pat's was a very strict school, but looking back it was a good school with a very good name, and I believe that it still has.