Parents joined pupils for a Back to School evening at Parkview School at Barrow in 1994.

Senior teacher Len Davey said staff gave lessons to existing and prospective parents of pupils at the school.

SCHOOL: Anne Speirs and son Robert investigate hydrodynamics during Parkview School’s Back to School evening in 1994

SCHOOL: Anne Speirs and son Robert investigate hydrodynamics during Parkview School’s Back to School evening in 1994

The event aimed to display the quality of teaching at the school and give parents a chance to look around facilities, including the technology department.

Parents particularly commented positively on the modern language training at the school, he said.

The chairman of governors at Parkview School, Bill Jones, congratulated long-serving science teacher Bill Wakefield at the school’s awards evening in 1996.

ACT: Carly Mallinson, 11, portrays Macbeth with expressive arts teacher Rick Lee during Parkview School’s Back to School evening in 1994

ACT: Carly Mallinson, 11, portrays Macbeth with expressive arts teacher Rick Lee during Parkview School’s Back to School evening in 1994

Mr Wakefield had given 36 years’ service to the school and was presented with a wall clock on behalf of the school and governors for his work and dedication.

In 1997 Parkview School headteacher Rod Wilson welcomed the changes brought to his school since it had become a technology college.

Mr Wilson was speaking at his school’s first awards evening since it took on technology college status - a move he described as the ‘most exciting initiative that I have ever been involved in’.

Mr Wilson said specialist schools like Parkview would be playing an important part in the new Government’s drive to improve school standards.

He said: “The technology college has brought more fun to learning in all areas of the curriculum.

"The reward for me has been the buzz and the enthusiasm that has been created. Success brings problems of a nice kind and to meet the increased demands for IT use, we are now going to have to extend the network and to put in another room full of computers, though being a technology college means much more than this."

Mr Wilson went on to single out a number of pupils for their outstanding performance in the summer's GCSE examinations. Top performers in the exams were Alan Green, Jane Boddington, Hannah Kendal, Carl Woodburn and Kirsty McKinnon.