1918 Lacey Green School
From Lacey Green History
this report is listed in Social Snapshots 1900-1968 inc. report from the head teacher's logbook
Edited excepts from the book "A Chiltern Village School" by Joan West
Weather
December 27th. Severe weather. Ink frozen.
January 14th. Weather very severe. Children scarcely able to write.
January 16th. Heavy snowstorms during the night, ground thickly covered. Snow falling thickly at 9 am. Only 18 children present.
January 17TH. Heavy snow again falling in the night. Roads very bad for walking. Only 27 present.
January 18th. Heavy thaw set in and roads very bad for walking.
February 4th. Very stormy day.
December 10th. As the road and the playground are in a terrible state for the children playing, I opened school early this afternoon.
Illness (Epidemic of Influenza)
November 21st. School closed on account of an epidemic of influenza
Distractions from school.
February 13th. Children to church it being Ash Wednesday.
September 2nd. Attendance very low owing to the falling of an aeroplane in the district (on the Grubbin). With permission the children went to the scene during the play hour and returned at 11.30. The teachers were in charge of them.
November 19th. The scholars paraded the village this morning to celebrate the signing of the armistice. After a short service of thanksgiving in the church, the procession which was exceedingly pretty halted at Grymsdyke, the Centre of the Village, Loosley House, the Post Office, Miss. Watsons’s and the Stret, Loosley Row. Boys were dressed in uniforms to impersonate the army and navy, girls as Red Cross nurses. Almost every child carried a banner, mounted on sticks and prettily designed by the elder boys. Frank Lacey and Harold Smith had made little banners from the drawings, painted and crayoned, by the scholars during the year. A large Union Jack, carried by Alec Dean had been lent by Colonel Tighe of Loosley House. It was especially prized having been used by the Boy Scouts assembled at Watlington for inspection by Lord Kitchener the week before war commenced. This of course led the procession. Mrs Tighe most kindly read a message from the Colonel to the children. Words of excellent advice which the smallest could understand.
Requisites.
January 10th. Received half ton of coal. Sent 1 cwt. coal to Mr. Saunders at Stocking Farm in return for that lent on December 1th.
January 30th. Girls and infants’ entrances being repaired.
February 4th. Girls pump repaired.
February 7th. New grating put to the drain under spouting by the boy’s entrance.
February 11th. All windows have been mended.
Notes.
January 8th. Chimney caught fire. Was able to extinguish the flames by means of salt.
January 12th. Chimney swept by Mr. A. Hickman.
February 4th. Sent off £2 – 18 – 0. to Sir Arthur Pearson, Bart, collected by the children for the “Blinded Soldiers Children’s Fund”.
February 6th. Children brought flowers to make a wreath for Miss Emily Ginger who is buried today.
February 11th. Received a letter from Mr. J. Saunders, thanking teachers and scholars for the wreath sent for his aunt Miss Emily Ginger.
November 11th. Armistice Signed between England and Germany. Cessation of arms. Children much excited. No holiday given.