|
to the holiday system of today, with the
‘summer-holiday’ from 30th July – 30th August9
in 1943.
Although the Education Act was passed in 1944,
there is no mention of it until 1945.10 What is
discussed during 1944 is the state of the school toilets, which
carries over into 1945. In fact they were not to be
‘modernised’ until about 1952, and in 1965 they were finally
demolished and new ones put in the air-raid shelter which was
adapted for this purpose – some 70 years after the
‘privies’ were built and nearly ten years after the first
idea to alter the shelter!
In June 1944 the following entry appears in the Log
Book:
‘Only 33 children were present in the morning |
|
owing to intense enemy activity during
the night and forenoon. Pilot-less planes appearing for the
first time and exciting some alarm. Most of the children
returned during the afternoon.’
This ‘intense enemy activity’ may have been the
direct cause of the plans for evacuation of the children if
parents wished it. In fact 19 children went to Yeovil Rural
District; 11 going to East Chinnock and the rest to
Chiselborough.11
9 Op cit. 1943.
10 Minutes of Meetings of School Managers 9th
July 1945,
letter
from Rev. J.D. Vigo, 26th November 1945 –
Rochester
Diocesan Archives.
11 School Log Book, July 1944. |