School Days

A Memory of Finchampstead.

I started Finchampstead school in 1953.There were 3 class rooms each with a cloak room,a girls toilet block ,be it only 3 toilet cubicles for us children and one for the teachers and boys block but I never entered that and so know nothing of it . They addjoined the play shed at the top of the small play ground . Girls played in one half ,boys in the other.
At lunch time we walked to the parish hall where our school dinner was cooked and we ate it . There was a new kitchen built onto the school while I was there. We then all ate in the large hall /classroom where the youngest children were taught .
The head mistress lived in the school house in the grounds . At the time all 3 teachers were female . Miss Elkington headmistress, Miss Meadowcraft, middle class teacher and Mrs Roebell taught the youngest .

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