Table Town Middle School is a recurring location in the series Kiff. Kiff Chatterley, Barry Buns, and several of their friends are students of the school, where they attend Miss Deer Teacher's class.
Background[]
The school seal, as seen in "The Sound of Helen".
Table Town Middle School is the school attended by Kiff Chatterley, Barry Buns, and many other children in Table Town. Both Table Town Middle School and the neighboring Table Town High School are governed by the same body, and have the same principal, Principal Secretary. Furthermore, some faculty members, such as Miss Tulane, teach at both schools. The name "Table Town School" is used to refer to the two schools collectively.
The Table Town School seal depicts a king protea (which is also seen on Table Town's city seal) on a table in front of a sunrise within a white-bordered shield with two flower buds located at its upper vertices, surrounded on both sides by a fern and two flowers. Beneath the table is a ribbon displaying the Latin phrase "stabulum mense" – a rough translation of "Table Town", derived from the words mensa ("table") and stabulum ("dwelling" or "habitation").
Locations[]
Miss Deer Teacher's classroom[]
Miss Deer Teacher's homeroom class consists of Kiff, Barry, Trevor, Renée, Candle, Reggie, Billiam, Darryn, Gareth, Patty, and Snekole. Miss Deer Teacher's classroom is her students' primary classroom, where Miss Deer Teacher teaches the majority of their subjects, including history and science.
Helen's classroom[]
Helen teaches drama to Miss Deer Teacher's students, making it one of their only classes not to be taught by Miss Deer Teacher. Helen's classroom has a miniature stage for performances and is filled with various theater-related items, including boxes of costumes, hats, and wigs, as well as Helen's piano. The walls are covered with posters of Helen, including a Table Town Has Talent poster with her face taped over it, as well as posters for Helen's own original musicals.
Mr. RiPeppa's classroom[]
Mr. RiPeppa's homeroom class includes Amira, Biff, Kim, and Liz K. RiPeppa is briefly seen teaching math class in his classroom in "Faculty Lounge".
Detention classroom[]
The school has a classroom reserved for detention sessions, which are monitored by Sweepy Steve. The windows in the classroom are secured with steel bars to prevent students from sneaking out.
Kindergarten classroom[]
The kindergarten classroom is the school's dedicated classroom for kindergarten students. Kiff and Barry previously went to class here under Miss Penfold.[1] One of the room's notable features is an art wall where students' artworks, mostly made of macaroni, are hung.[1]
Principal Secretary's office[]
Principal Secretary spends most of his time working in his office. The office is noticeably filled with pencils and pencil-related items. Behind a painting on the wall, Principal Secretary keeps his juice machine in a hidden compartment, which can be exposed by cranking his desk-mounted pencil sharpener to move the painting.[2]
Principal Secretary's secretary Secretary Prince works in the anteroom leading to Principal Secretary's office.
Faculty lounge[]
The faculty lounge is where school faculty members spend their free time, with students being strictly forbidden from entering. In "Faculty Lounge", Kiff sneaks inside the lounge to see what it looks like, only to discover that it is nowhere near as glamorous as she imagined it to be; she then spends the rest of the episode trying to exit the lounge unnoticed.
AV room[]
The AV room is located right across Miss Deer Teacher's classroom. It is filled with AV equipment, including a working TV and DVD player, and other assorted objects. Kiff and Barry occasionally watch movies together in the AV room. While watching Chubbles Wubbington! there with Kiff in "Be Still My Harp", Barry accidentally gets caught between the strings of a magical harp that was stored away in the room.
TV studio[]
Table Town Middle School has an on-campus TV studio that houses the set for Good Morning Table Town School, the school's student-run morning announcements program. When the program was cancelled after causing schoolwide chaos, the studio was abandoned and repurposed as a storage closet for cleaning supplies. The room was once again utilized for its original purpose when Kiff and her friends briefly revived the program in "Good Morning Table Town School".
Cafeteria[]
The cafeteria is where students eat lunch. It is staffed by an unnamed lunchlady who serves lunches to students. The regular menu includes grilled cheese sandwiches and eggplant parmesan, the latter of which is apparently considered unappetizing by the students.[3]
Gym[]
The gym is a separate building located on the Table Town Middle School grounds. It is where students have gym class, and doubles as an auditorium for assemblies and other gatherings. The gym is also used by Table Town High School, and is the location of the high school prom in "Kiff and Barry Go to Prom".
Playground[]
The playground is where students typically go to play during recess. Kiff and Barry first met each other on a seesaw in the playground seven years before the events of "Friendiversary".
Roof[]
The roof contains a rich and vibrant garden, as well as a small house that serves as Sweepy Steve's living quarters.
Sports fields[]
The school has two sports fields for outdoor sporting activities. The first is located to the left of the school building and serves as a soccer field, while the second is located behind the school building and is equipped with floodlights and a running track.
The second field is the practice area for the school track and field team, which is coached by Principal Secretary and consists of Billiam, Mav, Reggie, Renée, and formerly Kiff and Barry.[4]
Water fountain[]
A water fountain is located at the center of the school. The fountain was installed in "Thirst to Be the First" as a replacement for a rusting older fountain known as "Ol' Drippy", and unveiled in a formal ceremony by Barry using a Kiff decoy, due to the real Kiff being forced to stay home from school.
Known students[]
- Little Louis (in "Hive Got an Idea")
Known faculty[]
- Principal Secretary
- Miss Deer Teacher
- Miss Foodcake
- Helen
- Miss Minty[5]
- Miss Penfold[1]
- Rupert Pianovski
- Secretary Prince
- Mr. RiPeppa
- Sweepy Steve
- Miss Tulane
- Mrs. Ziemem[6]
- Unnamed owl teacher
- Ed (in "Wiz Ed")
- Secretary Mom (in "PS You're Fired")
Appearances[]
| Specials | ||||
| Opening sequence: | Appears | |||
| 1. "The Haunting of Miss McGravy's House": | Appears | 2. "Lore of the Ring Light": | Appears | |
Trivia[]
Cultural references[]
- Posters for CinderHelen, The Sound of Helen, and a Helen-themed school musical – parodies of "Cinderella", The Sound of Music, and High School Musical, respectively – are seen in Helen's classroom.
- Pencil-themed parodies of the paintings The Persistence of Memory by René Magritte and The Treachery of Images by Salvador Dalí are seen in Principal Secretary's office.
Gallery[]
Season 1[]
Season 2[]
Specials[]
Official artwork[]
Backgrounds[]
Sketches[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "The Macaroni Affair".
- ↑ "Juice Break".
- ↑ "Hive Got an Idea".
- ↑ "Kiff Is Good at Sports".
- ↑ "Life on the Inside".
- ↑ "Personal Assistant".