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terms that you cannot mime a nativity play. I
went into school next day and reported this conversation to an
unbelieving junior class. It was met with silence and suddenly a
voice from the back of the room said, ‘But we have done it!’
So we sent an invitation to my cousin to come to the Nativity
Play. If he did not know how to mime a Nativity Play we would
show him how it was done. The children acted superbly; they were
determined to make him change his mind and they succeeded. I
think the final scene of the play was baby angels kneeling in
the darkness of the stage around the lighted manger to the sound
of ‘Sleep Holy Babe’ brought a lump to many a throat,
especially as the lights in the hall were dimmed and the one
remaining light came from the manger.
One of the very popular outside activities of the
school was the arrival of the Library Van, which came from
Maidstone to change the library books in the village. We
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Library cupboard in our classroom and on the
day the van came the older children were allowed to help with
the choosing of the books for the juniors, and very valuable
help it was. Especially as it ended up in us having more than
our quota of books!
During my time at Ash it became the fashion for
television to be bought into schools and used as an educational
help. In common with most other village schools we applied to
see if we could have a television on the principal that what you
don’t ask for you don’t get. You still don’t get it, even
if you do ask for it as we were told that our numbers were not
sufficient to justify it! I retaliated that I was under the
impression that I taught children and not numbers and that if it
was beneficial to a class of, say, thirty it could also be
beneficial to a class of twenty-nine or five. Still no hope,
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