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through out the two classrooms. Repainting
walls in the classrooms was always an important event and on one
occasion we were told we could have spotted paint. This was
regarded as a great joke by children and staff alike. But to our
great astonishment we found it to be true and we returned from
our holidays to brightly speckled walls.
Many of you will remember Miss Wright, a previous Head
Mistress of the school, who owned a hutted building on a piece
of land adjoining the playground. She offered the hut to me,
through the K.E.C., and so we acquired a third classroom. With
it we also acquired quite a large area of grass. One end was
carpeted with snowdrops in the Spring, and some of these were
picked on the Friday before Mothering Sunday and made into small
bunches by the older children, so that each child in the school
had a bunch of flowers to take home to mother. The use of this
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since we also had the use of the Village
Hall. Sometimes it was a class room, sometimes used for dinners,
indoor P.E. activities and exhibitions.
In those early days our dinners were bought from
Longfield School and on one memorable occasion news came through
that because of snow the dinner van could not get through to us.
Needless to say, in spite of the snow, we had a full attendance
of children, all of whom had extra hollow legs to fill in that
cold temperature! What were we to do? We solved the problem with
the help of our very efficient village shopkeeper, Mrs Barlow.
Two or three of the older children and I raided the shop for
tins of soup, stewed steak, vegetables and packets of suet (it
would be interesting to compare the prices with those of today).
We then gathered all the large saucepans I possessed and in the
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