CHAPTER 19Joseph Ward Junior High School was huge with four teaching blocks with vertically arranged syndicates of about two hundred and fifty students in each. They were named after ocean birds; Gannet, Petrel, Tern and Shearwater and had their names prominently displayed on the buildings that incorporated six Year 7 and 8 home classrooms as well as a similar number of classrooms for the Year 9 and 10 levels. As well, each syndicate had its own science laboratory and art room. As well as these two-storied blocks there was a gymnasium, a music and performing arts block, technology block an auditorium, library and administration block.
There were two deputy principals of the same grade, two assistant principals also of the same grade was well as heads of departments in the Year 9 and 10 le
