1907 Lacey Green School
From Lacey Green History
this report is listed in Social Snapshots 1900-1968 inc. Report from the heard teacher's logbook.
Edited excepts from the book "A Chiltern Village School" by Joan West
Weather
October 18th. Very wet this week.
November 26th. Wet and windy.
Illness (Unclead head)
May 7th. Lily Brooks, infant, was sent home because her head was not clean. She was not in a fit condition to sit beside other children.
Distractions
April 19th. Four boys attending the Labour examination at Princes Risborough.
May 6th. School closed this afternoon owing to the Lacey Green Chapel Anniversary.
June 6th. School closed to allow staff to attend the Educational Conference at Aylesbury.
October 3rd. This evening the boys’ football club commenced practice.
October 9th. A very small attendance this afternoon owing to a bazaar in Loosley Row
Extra-Curricula
November 8th. As it became rather dark about 3pm the ordinary lessons were suspended and voice exercises and singing taken instead.
November 19th. As the afternoon is fine I am taking thirty boys to the football field as an organised game
Notes.
October 25th. The parents of two boys have been summoned for irregular attendance.
December 12th. The supplementary teacher, Mabel Janes, has been attending the preliminary certificate examination in reading, recitation and practical music in Wycombe
H.M.I. Report. April. Considering the staff which is not a strong one, the school is doing as well as can be expected. The teachers work hard and the instruction everywhere reaches a very creditable level. Composition all through the school should receive more time and be treated on broader, i.e. less recollective lines. Object lessons, if they are to serve their purpose must always be fully illustrated.
In the infant class too, the staff is not strong. Miss Hawes manages these little ones with skill, but if she is to have a fair chance she will need help. A supplementary teacher who could divide her time between the main room and the infant room, would meet the case.
I must again point out that the cloakroom accommodation is deficient and there should be a better form of lavatory.
The managers should now be required to take these matters in hand without any unnecessary delay. Last year’s report on the premises does not appear in the log book. I must ask that this omission may be made good and the terms of the code be strictly regarded in future.
October. I regret that I cannot hear of any intention to improve the cloakroom accommodation. The boys little lobby is seriously inadequate. It is very small. There are 42 pegs for 70 boys and the space is reduced by the make-shift lavatory – a wash basin set upon a chair. Against this I am glad to notice that the premises have been thoroughly done up, inside and outside and that the playgrounds have been put in order
Diocesan Report. December. The school still maintains its high state of efficiency, though the upper group did not do quite as well as in former years. Still good work is being done, and there is an esprit de corps in the school, which is admirably fostered by the headmaster.
The infant class is exceedingly well taught. I am always struck by the keenness of the children. The religious tone and discipline seem very good. The written work was good and the writing very clean and neat.