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almost everything else till 1923.
The epidemics continue, Whooping Cough in 1922,
Measles in 1923 and Scarlet Fever 1924. At the same time the
school continues to prosper. In 1924 Ash School played a series
of Netball Matches and won all the games. Also the school was
first in a Dancing Competition at Swanley.
On 30th April 1923 an experiment in the P.N.E.U.
system9 was started and seems to have been fairly
successful for one year later on 13th June 1924, ‘Forms II and
III and part of I went to the P.N.E.U. exhibition at Wembly’,
and a year later again; April 1925 a party of children went to
the P.N.E.U. gathering at Canterbury in the Easter Holidays.
‘They were boarded at Kent Collage, by kind permission of Mr
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Lessons were held at the King’s School
every morning. Organised parties went to the Cathedral and other
places of interest. Ash produced a Pageant in the theatre
(Marlow?) of the Wat Tyler rebellion, as it is conceivable that
ancestors of Ash children took part in the rebellion, which
occurred in Dartford. A visit to Dover was arranged for the last
day.’ Towards the end of 1925 the children were taken to see
H.R.H. Prince of Wales when he opened a new by-pass near
Gravesend.10
In 1925 Ash received another good Diocesan report,
and these reports continued to stay good until at least
9 Parents’ National
Education Union.
10 School Log Book November 19th 1924. |