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Schools over the years.
Schools have changed quite a lot over the years. Initially only boys were taught. Next, boys and girls in the same school, but separated by going in different doors. They played in different areas. Those schools having different age groups from infants through to seniors in the same school must have been very difficult for teachers organising the days’ work.
The heating for schools by open fires in some cases. Certainly wouldn’t be allowed now with health and safety. The toilets outside.
Children sent home for lunch, and back again to work through the afternoon. No such thing as school meals. Were you left-handed, did you get rapped on the knuckles and made to write with your other hand? Children misbehaving being smacked with a cane – some bright sparks even putting a book down their trousers so the punishment didn’t hurt! Some talking, and a missile of chalk or something bigger would come whooshing at the side of your head.
Learning by repetition. “ I times 2 is 2…” Countries on a globe…. No TV learning, it didn’t exist. Some church schools would have assemblies before school, and again at the end of the day. Religion was a mainstay.
Walking there and back to school, not many people had cars. With the advent of the wartime, children might have been at school either in the morning or the afternoon. Room had to be made for the evacuees, and the teachers who came with them. Factor in some schools being used as recovery areas for the soldiers returning from Dunkirk, and it shows how large the class sizes would be.
A fire in situ at a local school discovered during renovations a few years ago
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