UK music mistress plays cello in the nude - to help SA school
July 04, 2003 Edition -1
Sixteen English grammar school teachers have posed nude for a calendar to raise money for a school in South Africa.
Dr Peter Holding, headmaster of the Sir William Borlase grammar school at Marlow in Buckinghamshire, said yesterday: "The calendar was the brainchild of the school's head girl, 17-year-old Charlotte Longstaff, and the pupils have formed a company to handle sales.
"We have a four-year commitment to link up with the Siyele Junior Secondary School in Soshanguve, near Pretoria, and we hope to raise £10 000 (about R123 000) for them from the sale of the calendar," Holding said.
Asked whether the teachers had been hesitant to strip, he said: "They were very enthusiastic. In fact, we needed only 12 pictures but ended up with 16."
The calendar, which went on sale on June 26, costs about R100 and includes Melanie Macfarlane, the music mistress playing cello in the nude; maths master Andrew Howland, protecting his modesty with a crash helmet; and John Stebbings, who, if he wasn't a biology teacher, could be a male model.
"The pupils have a new respect for the teachers who were brave enough to bare all," said Jenny Stacey, the secretary at the co-ed school.
Jane Blane, the geography teacher, was born in South Africa. - Sapa
