Spring Term 1966

School re-opened.

A S E 1966

As a result of the two intelligence tests last term and on the basis of the Headmaster’s reports, fourteen children have gained places at Selective Secondary Schools.  Seventeen will need further written tests beofre places are granted and those children whose parents want them to sit can also take the further tests.  These will be few in number, it is hoped.

At 7pm the Headmaster and Mr Muncey saw all parents of children who did not gain a place or qualify as border-line children.  Two only wanted their children to take the written tests on Jan 26^th next.

On Thursday evening parents of children in 1B class will be seen by the Headmaster and Mr Whitworth.

Miss Harris absent - sick.

Pm session only, Mrs Trusler absent – sick.

Mrs Trusler and Miss Harris absent.

Mrs Trussler returned.

Miss Harris returned.

Mrs W Muncey absent for hospital tests.

Pm session Mrs Blewitt absent.

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Mrs W Muncey returned.

A full dental inspection was held on January 20^th 1966.

Annual Schools Examination

This school was a centre for the examination of the border-line children.  22 came from Alfred Street Junior and 18 from South End Primary.  Mr Muncey and the Headmaster acted as Hon Invigilators.  25 chilsdren from this school went to the Alfred Street Junior School Centre.

Am session only – mrs Linck absent – sick.

Mr Muncey absent – sick.

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Mr Muncey returned.

Mrs Dyment absent – sick.

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2 above teachers still absent.

Mr Whitworth returned.

Mrs Dyment returned.

Mr Whitworth absent – sick.

Mr Whitworth absent – sick.

Mr Whitworthand Mrs Muncey absent.

Mr Whitworth absent.

Mrs Muncey absent.

Miss Harris absent.

All are sick.

School closed for half-term holiday.

School re-opened.

Mr Whitworth returned.

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Mrs Trusler absent – sick.

Mrs E L Butler is on supply teacher duties in place of Mrs Trusler.

Mrs Trusler still absent.

Mrs Butler absent am session.

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Mrs Butler absent pm.

Mrs Linck absent am and Mrs Butler absent pm.

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Mrs Linck returned.

Mrs Butler absent all day.

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Mrs Blewitt absent – sick on Mar 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th.  Returned to duty on mar 7^th.

Mrs Trusler returned and Mrs Butler not required.

Drama Festival

Special rehearsals were held on Tuesday afternoon for the above festival.  The performers and all children from the top four classes went to the Boys’ Seconday School for a complete rehearsal of Thursday’s presentations.

Road Safety Film Show and Instruction for all the children at the Ritz Cinema from 2pm to 3.20pm.

Drama Festival

AT the above festival held at the Boys’ Secondary School at 7.15pm, this school presented the ‘Sleeping Beauty’.  The story was told in the children’s own words and proved most successful.  The festival was non competitive.

Graded Post

Mr B Whitworth has been awarded the second graded post in this school under the recent salary award.  The award will be back-dated to Sept 1^st 1966.

2pm House Competition in the hall.  Musical items were presented by each House in each age group.  Recitation and choral speaking items followed – again for each age group.

11am Easter service.

4pm School closed for Easter.

School re-opens

Mrs E L Butler has taken Mrs Blewitt’s place in 4B class.  She will take the afternoon sessions and mrs Linck will continue with the morning sessions.

Mr Sime H M I came in this morning and returned in the afternoon.  He saw all the teachers and their classes.

Mrs W Muncey absent – sick am session only.

Doctor saw 12 children this morning 9.15 – 12.

Doctor saw 12 more children 9am – 12.

Mrs W Muncey returned.

Doctor saw 12 children 9am – 12.

Mrs Dyment absent – sick pm session only.

Mrs Dyment absent.

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Mrs Linck absent – sick am session only.

Caretaker’s absence

Mr J Peasnell unable to carry out his duties through sickness.  Mrs N Howell is doing an extra two hours in the evenings May 2 to 6^th inclusive.  Mrs Howell is an assistant cleaner.

2hrs boiler stoking by Mr Skells of portland rd canteen

Mr g Batters absent – sick.

All children in their final year went to the Swimming Baths at 1.30pm.

Mrs R I Lincks ended her duties here at noon today.

School closed at 4pm for Whitsun.

School re-opened. 

Mrs W G Rogers joined the staff.  She will take the morning session in 4B class in place of Mrs R I Linck.  Mrs E L Butler continues with the pm sessions.

The two top classes, 1A and 1B had an outing to london today.  Transport left the school at 8.15am.

Parties of children visited the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, the Science Museum at Kensington and ended the day at Battersea Park.

District Sports

This school won the Colton Shield for the Champion School with 57 points.  The Timpson Cup for the school winning most points in the relay races was also won by this school.

Cycling Proficiency Tests

Sir Lionel poole presented the Certificates and Badges to 29 children.  The County award of fifteen shillings in savings stamps for the best kept bicycle was awarded to Gillian Underwood.  Sir lionel also spoke about Road Safety to the children.

Mrs Rogers absent am session – sick.

2pm School Sports held on the Town Cricket field.

7pm A special concert for the parents of the children who play the recorder was given in the school hall.  It was arranged by Miss Harris.

2A class gave a concert for the whole school at 2pm today.  Singing, mime, sketches and ballet were included.

Service at 3 pm when leaving presents were given to Mr G Batters and Mrs W Muncey.  Mr Batters has secured a post near cannock annd was given a barometer.  Mrs Muncey is retiring from the profession and received a gift of crockery.

Mrs E L Butler and Mrs D Rogers ended their duties today.

School closed at 4pm for the holiday.

Autumn Term 1966

School re-opened 8.50am.

Mr J R Cooper and Miss J M Desborough joined the staff today.

Mrs W Muncey has returned for a few weeks to fill the vacancy in 1B class.

Mrs K G Dyment absent – sick.

Mrs K G Dyment returned.

Sept 16^th 1966

Television in School

Today we had our first lesson via the television screen.  The set has been put in the old woodwork shed and lighting and heating must be improved as time goes on.

Mrs W Muncey ended her duties as supply teacher.

Mrs Akroyd took over 1B class as the supply teacher.

Dental Inspection 9.30 to 3pm.

Half-term.  Closed at 4pm.

School re-opened.

9.30am to 10.20am A S E Verbal Reasoning Test taken by 1A and 1B classes.  2a and 3A classes excluded until 10.30am so that the candidates sat in separate desks.

2^nd A S E Test in Verbal Reasoning.  4a and 4B classes excluded until 10.30am.

Absent – Paul Brice, Alan Ricketts, Andrew Carter, Julie Childs – all sick

Mrs K G Dyment absent – sick.

11am Lecture in school hall on the works of the R S P C A by Miss J Ashdown.

Mr J R Cooper absent – sick am session only.

Mr Cooper absent – sick.

Mr Cooper returned.

Miss Bull absent – sick.

Miss Bull returned.

School Carol Service

6.45pm in the Park Road Baptist Church with parents, relatives and friends present.  It consisted of carols, Bible readings, recorder and percussion items.  Mr B Whitworth arranged th service; Miss J Harris trained the children playing the recorders and Mrs Dyment was the acompanist.  Mr G W Marriott, a Primary School Manager, proposed the vote of thanks to the teachers.  A collection for school charities raised £20.

Children’s concert in the hall at 2pm.  Allitems prepared by the children themselves.

Mrs M M Trusler ended her duties today and was presented with a tea-pot and hot water jug by the staff and children.

Mrs Akroyd ended her duties as supply teacher today.

School closed at 4pm for the Christmas holiday.

Spring Term 1967

School re-opened at 8.50am.

Miss E M Bull absent – sick.

Miss M B Petrie joined the staff of this school today and took Mrs Trusler’s place in 4B class.

Mr D Clark of the Permanent Emergency Staff is taking over 1B class in place of Mrs Akroyd who left at the end of the term.

Because Miss Bull is absent I have asked Mr Clark to take charge of 4A class (7 - 8 yrs) until her return and I shall take charge of 1B class (10 – 11 yrs).  The timetable has been amended accordingly.

Allocation of Pupils to Secondary Schools 1967

19 children have been accepted as suitable for Grammar Schools.  8 are required to work attainment tests in Arithmetic and English on Wed Jan 25^th 1967.  The above results are as aresult of the two Verbal Reasoning Tests given last term, plus the Head Teacher’s assessment.

Any parent will have the right toask for his child to be included in the border-line group and sit the attainment tests.  It is hoped that they will be guided by the advice of the Head Teacher.

Miss E M Bull returned to duty.

Mr D Clark returned to duty and took charge of 1B class.

Mr D Clark absent – sick.

Mr D Clark returned to duty.

Mr D Clark absent – sick.

Mr D Clark returned.

Allocation to Secondary Schools

Wed Jan 25^th at 9.15am Attainment tests in English and Arithmetic for the border-line children and for children whose parents have requested that their child must sit.

Five boys to Boys’ Sec School centre.  Ten girls to Girls’ Sec School centre.

Dr Capon examined Julie Smeathers as to her mental ability.

Mr K A Hibbert, educational psychologist saw Neil Dickens, Paul Brice and Kenneth Brooter and their parents today.

School closed at 4pm for half-term.

School re-opened.  Miss Harris absent am session only to look after her sick mother.

Miss Bull absent – sick.

Mrs Sturgess, school secretary, absent – sick.

Mrs Sturgess returned.

Miss Petrie absent pm session – sick.

Miss Petrie returned to duty.

Miss Bull still absent.  Mrs M Trusler is acting as supply teacher in 4A class.

Mrs Trusler ended her duties at noon – Mr Dyment took over her duties.

Mr Symes, Her majesty’s Inspector of Schools, stayed from 9am each morning until 4pm and saw all classes at work and had discussions with all the teachers.  From 3pm on Wednesday until 4.30 he discussed the working of the school with the Head Teacher.

Miss E M Bull returned to duty.

Mr F Dyment, Headmaster, absent – sick.

Mr Dyment returned.

House Competition.  Entries from the four age groups in Poetry, Recitation and Singing.

School closed at 4pm for the Easter holiday.

Mr D Clark ended his supply teacher duties here.

Summer Term

At the end of last term another piano was received.  This will help the organisation of Music at the other end of the school.  110742 Bentley Schlastic – open grain oak finish – by Bentley Piano Co. Ltd., Woodchester, Gloucester.

School re-opened at 8.50am After the Easter holiday.

Mr S J Edwards is taking 1B class for this week only.

School closed because the premises were needed as a polling station for the County Council Elections.

Mr S J Edwards ended his duties here.

Miss M G Henderson joined the staff as a temporary teacher and takes 1B class.

School dooctor in all the morning to discuss with the Headmaster all the children in the third year group.

Doctor completed the above work.

Miss J Harris absent – sick.

Miss Harris returned.

Mrs Sturgess, school secretary, abent.

Mrs Sturgess returned.

Report by H M Inspectors 21^st and 22^nd February 1967.

There are 356 children in this school taught in nine classes.  The classes are divided into two streams and there is a remedial class containing the least able pupils from the first three years.  The A stream classes are over large, having 47, 45, 48 and 45 children in them; the B stream classes number 39, 35,40 and 36.  These latge numbers make it possible to have a remedial class of only 21 pupils but whilst this is very desirable, the numbers in many of the classes are so large that they do not permit a close contact bteween teachers and individual pupils or the full development of practical and creative work in all subjects.

In spite of the fact that an extra classroom has been built, the hall has still to be used for teaching thus depriving the children of any form of physical eductaion when the weather is unsuitable for outside work.  Some indoor sanitation has been provided for the younger girls which may also be used for the older girls in bad weather.  The boys’ urinal needs attention.  An outbuilding which has been equiped in a rough and ready way as a workshop is now also used for television viewing.  The proposal to make the room more comfortable by redecorating it and providing better heating and lighting will extend the use of this valuable space without necessarily diminishing the opportunities it affords for handwork.

The Headmaster was appointed in 1955.  His confidence and experience, energy and careful organisation ensure the smooth running of the school.  There are eight permanent members of staff, five of whom are in their first teaching posts and three in their first year of teaching.  Together they form a loyal and hardworking staff.  A vacancy is being filled for the time being by a supply teacher.

In the main the children read well but greater efforts are needed if the few least able pupils are not to leave this school unable to read without at least a minimum degree of fluency.  In quality as well as quantity the written work being done by the A stream pupils is good and the topics about which they write are interesting and appropriate.  There is a growing regard being paid to some aspects of modern mathematics but this type of work has not yet become fully established.  The teaching of history, geography and some science is done either through the medium of television or through the study of various general topics.  Whilst these studies are broadly conceived and the writing neatly and thoughtfully done the presentation of the work might be given more consideration and might, on occasions, provide opportunities for artistic expression.  The girls make usefull articles in their Needlework lessons and the boys make various models in cardboard which call for accurate measurement and care.  The children sing with vigour and those who play the recorder do so with confidence and skill.  Music and puppet making are strong features of the work both of which lead to performances for parents and friends. 

The strength of the teaching is reflected in the more formal written work; the orderliness of the school may be attributed to the inspiration and vigilance of the teachers.  From assembly in the morning and throughout the day, the childre, many of whom are members of large classes, are for the most part attentive, polite and ready to learn.

School closed to allow all members of staff to attend the N U T Refresher Course at Corby.

7pm in the Ritz Cinema this school took part in the Schools’ Music Festival.  As an individual item the choir, under Mrs Dyment, sang two songs from ‘The Prates of Penzance’ and then joined with other schools in ‘The Peasant Cantata’ by Bach.

Mrs Dyment absent – sick.

Mrs Dyment returned.

Mr Muncey absent – sick pm session only.

School closed for the Summer mid-term hloiday at 4pm.

School re-opened.

9.30am School doctor in all morning.

9.30am School doctor in all morning.

Miss M G Henderson absent – sick.

School doctor in all morning.

Swimming for 4^th year children started today.  1B – am session; 1A – pm session.

Educational Visit

1A and 1B classes (82 children) left for London at 8.30am.  Visits were made to Whitehall, St Paul’s Cathedral, the Tower of London and battersea Park.  The party was back in Rushden at 9.30pm.  Mr Dyment, Mr Muncey and Mr Whitworth were in charge.

1A and 1B boys to Boys Secondary School foor an Intelligence Test.

9.15am Doctor saw twelve children from 9.30am too 12 noon.

School dentist examined every child’s teeth today.

District School Sports at 2pm on the Town Cricket Club ground.  This school won the Capon Shield for being runners-up and also retained the Timpson Relay Cup.

Police examined all the children’s cycles.

7pm Recorder concert in the school hall.  Many parents came.

School sports on the Town C C field at 2pm.

7pm – Marionette show in the school hall for parents – given by Mr Muncey and 1A boys.

7pm – 3 plays presented by 3A class to parents and friends.  About 100 were present.

11am – mr H Valvona, County Safety Organiser, presented the Cycling proficiency certificates and badges to the successful children.

Mr J R Cooper ends his duties here today and was presented with a brief case by the staff and children of 2B class.

Miss G J Henderson ended her temporary duties here and was given a small wedding gift by the headmaster.

School closed at 4pm for the Summer holiday.

Autumn Term 1967

Because of the overcrowding which has existed at this school for years, it was decided by the Chief Education Officer and the primary School Managers to transfer all pupils in bedford Road, Avenue Road, and the upper end of Newton Road to the new school in Wymington Road i.e. South End Junior School.  About 20 pupils from this school and several from the adjoining Infants School were involved in the transfer.

School re-opened.

Mrs H Tassell joined the staff.  This is her first teaching post.

Mrs M E Walker, a Canadian teacher, has been engaged as a supply in place of Miss M G Henderson.

At the end of last term 112 left for other schools.  94 have been admitted today.  Classes are smaller than they have been for many, many years.

Miss Marlow ended her duties at 4pm.

Mrs H Tassell absent – sick.

Pm session Mr Whitworth absent to attend an interview in Wellingborough.

Miss H Tassell returned to duty.

Mr Tyler the new County Music Adviser paid us a visit.

Mrs M E Walker absent – sick.

Mrs M E Walker returned.

Mrs M E Walker absent – sick.

Mrs Walker absent in order to have a full medical examination by School Medical Officer.

Mrs M E Walker returned.

Mrs Sturgess, school secretary, absent.

Mrs Sturgess returned to duty.

Mr G J Muncey absent – sick.

Mr G J Muncey returned.

Allocation to Secondary Schools 1968

1^st Verbal Reasoning test at 9.30am this morning.

School closed at 4pm for half-term.

School re-opened.

Miss M B Petrie absent – sick.

Miss Petrie returned to duty.

Mrs B Gosden came to act as supply teacher for Miss Petrie and stayed for the morning session only.  She then transferred to the Warwick County School, Wellingborough.

Heating System

During the Summer vacation the coke-fired boilers were adapted for oil.  On October 1^st the new system was brought into use.

Mrs H Tassell absent – sick.

Pm session Mrs B Gosden came in to act as supply teacher.

A S E qualifying test at 9.30am for seventy children – 2^nd Verbal Reasoning paper.

Mrs B Gosden ended her duties.

Mrs H Tassell returned.

Mrs M E Walker absent – sick.

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Mrs K G Dyment sick – am session only.

Mrs Sturgess, school secretary, absent – sick.

Mrs Sturgess absent – sick.

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Mrs M E Walker sick.

Mrs Walker sick.

Mrs H Tassell absent – sick – and will be until the end of term.

Mr Dyment is taking the class as much as possible.

At 7pm in the Park Road Baptist Church the school carol service was held.  The Church was full and a collection was taken and will be given to children’s charities.

Mrs B Gosden in to take 2B class for Mrs Tassell.

1.30pm concert given by children from all the classes in the school hall.

Mr G W Marriott C C, Chairman of the Primary School Managers, came into the End of Term service at 11am.  He came to pay tribute to Mr Bob Whitworth, who was ending his long association, as a pupil and as ateacher, with this school.  Mr Marriott thanked Mr Whitworth on behalf of the parents and the school managers for his fine service to the school.  He then presented him with gifts from the staff and cchildren – a reading lamp and a coffee table.

School closed at 4pm for the Christmas holiday.

Mrs B Gosden ends her supply teacher duties today.

Spring Term

School re-opened.

Mr M T Haynes joined the staff in place of Mr B Whitworth.  Mr Haynes comes to us from Wellingborough Croyland Road Junior School. 

Mrs H Tassell returned to duty today.

Mrs M E Walker has been appointed for the term and not on a daily basis.

Heavy falls of snow made getting to school very difficult for the staff.  Few were here on time.  Only Mrs Tassell failed to arrive during the day. School closed at 3pm to help the teachers catch early buses, since conditions underfoot were very bad indeed.

Mr Dyment, Headmaster, absent through illness.

Mr Dyment still absent, also Mrs Dyment, to look after her husband.

Mrs Tassell absent, her place being taken during the afternoon session by a supply teacher, Mrs Gosden – continued with 2B class.

Mrs M E Walker absent so Mrs B Gosden came  in for the afternoon session and took 1B class.

Mrs M E Walker returned to duty.

14 children were required to work the attainment tests for the Allocation of pupils to Secondary Schools – 5 boys attended the Rushden Secondary School for Boys and 9 girls attended the Rushden Secondary School for girls, during the morning.

Miss Bull came to school to start things off and then had to leave to visit her sister in hospital.  Her sister had been badly injured in a car accident.

Miss Bull, after a long vigil at the hospital, was not well enough to come to school.  Mrs Gosden was, unfortunately, not able to attend either and so her supply duties ended yesterday.  Mr G Muncey took charge of the school and made the necessary changes in the timetable.

Mr F Dyment, Headmaster, returned to duty.

Miss E M Bull has asked for official leave to nurse her sister, who will leave hospital today.  This has been granted and she will be away for one week.

Mrs J J Bradshaw has beeen sent here as supply teacher.

Miss M Petrie is absent – sick.

Miss Petrie returned.

Mrs J J Bradshaw ended her duties here today.

Mrs H Tassell absent – sick.

Miss E M Bull returned to duty.

Mrs H Tassell returned.

Miss M E Walker absent – sick.

Half-term.

School re-opened 9am.

Mrs M E Walker absent to attend Commonwealth Teachers Conference at Kettering.

Wed, Thurs, Friday Miss Bull absent – sick.

Miss Bull returned.

Pm session – Miss J Desborough was feeling unwell and was taken home by Mrs Dyment at 2pm.

Mrs H Tassell injured in a car accident at 8.30am and was taken to Kettering hospital.  Her husband was severely injured.

Mrs Cleaver, permanent emergency staff, came at 10.30 to take Mrs Tassell’s place.

Mrs M E Walker absent – sick.

Mr Dyment took 1B class.

Mrs M E Walker returned.

House Competition in Music and Poetry at 2pm.

Mrs M E Walker absent to catch a plane for her holiday in Greece.  Mrs Walker is our Canadian teacher and is accompanying her husband, an exchange teacher at Finedon Junior School.

11am Easter service in the hall.

4pm School closed for the Easter holiday.

Mrs Cleaver ended her duties at this school.

Summer Term 1968

School re-opened.

Mrs H Tassell returned to duty.

Mrs M E Walker absent to go to the Isle of Wight for a Commonwealth Exchange Teachers’ Conference.

Mrs H Tassell absent am session to go to hospital for a check-up.

Swimming classes started today.  1B at 11am; 1A at 1.30pm at Rushden Swimming Bath.

Mrs H Tassell absent – sick.

Pm session Mrs M E Walker absent.

Mrs Walker absent to continue her visits to County Schools with her husband.

(pm session) May 15^th and May 16^th Mrs P Jenkins acted as supply teacher in place of Mrs Walker.

Mrs Walker returned.

Mrs Tassell returned.

Mrs M E Walker absent pm session to visit Wellingborough Grammar School.

Sports Trials 1.45pm to 3pm for the whole school.

Miss E M Bull absent – sick.

Miss Bull returned.

School closed at 4pm fro the Whitsun holiday.

Mrs Sturgess, secretary was absent – sick.

School re-opened.

School closed for our annual school outing to London for 4^th year children.

Mrs M E Walker absent – sick – returned 26^th.

Mrs M E Walker absent to attend a Commonwealth Teachers’gathering in London.  Pm session Mrs tassell absent to attend an interview at Irthlingboro’.

Presentation of Road Safety Proficiency Certificates and Badges by Alderman C G Faulkner O B E at 11am to 46 children.
                          C G Faulkner

District Schools’ Sports which were postponed on Thursday last because of bad weather.

At 1pm 2A class, Mr Muncey and Mrs Tassell went to the Canal Museum at Stoke Bruerne.

Press Cutting

400 children provide varied concert

OVER 400 children took part in the Rushden and District Schools' Music Festival, held al the Ritz Cinema, Rushden, last night. By means of a seven-tier stand, and by highly organised arrangement, all the children were massed on the stage at once, and a continuous programme of music wan presented.

Choirs from Higham Ferrers. Raunds, Rushden Alfred Street. Rushden Newton Road and Rushden South End .primary schools joined with senior choirs from Raunds Secondary Modern School, Rushden Secondary Modern School for Boys and Rushden Secondary Modern School for Girls, to provide a full and varied concert.

INFANTS

There were also two spots on the programme tor the infants from the district to perform.  They opened the programme with percussion items, and closed the first half with six songs.  This was the first time that infants had sung at the festival, which had not been held for two years.

There was one solo item, a cornet solo by 13-year-old Henry Monaghan, of Raunds Secondary Modern School, who received a great ovation for his performance of the slow movement from a trumpet concerto by Haydn.

The choirs combined for severaI of the songs, and considering they had only had one-combined practice—on the morning of the festival—they kept remarkably well together.  The only drawback was that when a descant had to. be sung, as in "The Snowy Breasted Pearl," an old Irish air arranged by E. Sharpe. all ihe schools had practised the descant, leaving very few to provide the actual song.

This was one of the few songs in which the boys’ choirs came into their own and were really noticable.

Rushden Alfred Street provided a good and popular novelty in the form of a bamboo pipe band.

Several items were introduced by the conductor, mr Stanley Thorne, county musical adviser, who conducted all the massed choral songs and the senior groups.

Miss Ruth Hodgkins (Alfred Street School) and Mrs Alice Goddard (Rushden secondary Modern School for Girls) accompanied the cchoirs.

2pm Our own School Sports were held today.

Puppet show

Parents came in last night and today Mr Muncey showed them to the school.

11am service in the hall for the whole school.

Book tokens were presented to Miss Petrie and Mrs Tassell who are leaving us.

Mrs Walker is returning to Canada and she was presented with two silver serviette rings by the staff and pupils.

No swimming today because the pump room at the Baths was flooded after yesterday’s extremely heavy rain.

4pm School closed for the Summer holiday.

Autumn Term 1968

School re-opened after the summer holiday.

New members of staff are Miss E E Rodgers – probation year, Mrs H Smith from Bedford, Mrs P J Hill from Rushden Girls Sec

Mrs H Smith absent – sick.

Mrs H Smith returned

Mrs H Smith absent – sick.

Mr G J Muncey absent – sick pm session only.

Mrs Smith and Mr Muncey both absent.

Pm session Mrs Gosden came in as supply teacher and took 2A class.

Mr Muncey absent.

Mrs Smith absent

Mrs Gosden on supply.

Mrs H Smith returned.

Mrs B Gosden ended her duties here.

Mr G J Muncey returned.

Mrs K G Dyment absent – sick.

Miss J Harris sick.

Mrs P J Hill sick.

1.30pm Mrs Woodwward came in as supply teacher.

Mrs Woodward ended her duties.

Miss Harris absent.

Mrs P F Hill returned.

Miss Harris returned.

4pm School closed for the half-term holiday.

School re-opened.

Mrs H Smith absent.

Mrs H Smith returned.

Mrs H Smith absent – sick.

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Mr Dyment returned.

Pm session only – Mrs Woodward took 1B class and on Tuesday Nov 12^th.

Mrs Smith returned.

Mrs Smith absent – sick.  Pm session Mrs Woodward took 1B class and all day on Tues Nov 19^th.

Mrs H Smith returned.

Mr F Dyment absent – sick.

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Mr F Dyment returned.

Miss E Rodgers absent – sick.

Miss Rodgers returned.

Mrs Sturgess, school secretary, absent.

7pm in Park Road Baptist Church the school carol service was held.  A full church resulted and nieteen pounds was collected for charities.

School closed at 4pm for the Christmas holiday.