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| Name | D E Smyth |
| Title(s) | Deputy Head of English |
| Subject(s) | English |
| Qualifications | BEd (Homerton College, Cambridge), MA (Central Lancashire) MA (Lit.) (Open).ALCM |
| Form | 11P |
| Years at Arnold | 11 |
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Mr Smyth is a local lad, having been brought up in Cleveleys. It is particularly pleasurable for him to end up teaching at Arnold since he claims that his dismal mathematical skills led to his failing the Entrance Exam at the age of eleven. Having grown tired of being woken up by seagulls, he moved inland to Preston where he can be seen most mornings on the fast lane of the M55 eating his breakfast - he is not a morning person.
Having been made to go to elocution lessons with Cleveleys' answer to Isadora Duncan, he was given charge of our public speaking and debating teams. According to David this has led to many exciting opportunities: "the cricket team went all the way to Trinidad and Tobago, but have never experienced the warm glow of satisfaction to be derived from watching a debate on a November evening in Halifax. Many are called but few are chosen."
Mr Smyth is tenor in the school choir (though he still can't read music) and he proof reads 'The Arnoldian' with pedantic assiduity - he particularly enjoys colleagues pointing out mistakes which slipped through the net. He tells us that having a mind stuffed with diffuse trivia, and the inability to concentrate on anything for more than five minutes, means that he is the perfect person to run the school quiz teams. His ambition is to form a team of fast-fingered factmasters capable of showing any opposition a clean pair of digits!
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