View source for 1910 Lacey Green School.

This item 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'''[[File:Lacey Green School XXXX5.jpg|left|thumb]]
'''Weather'''

January 28<sup>th</sup>.The roads are all '''flooded''', a '''rapid thaw''' setting in after a '''heavy snowfall''' during the night.   School abandoned owing to so few children present.

'''Illness (Impetigo & very bad Colds).'''

January 19<sup>th.</sup> Notified the doctor that Lily Brooks has impetigo.  

January 21<sup>st</sup>.Very bad colds.  

February 28<sup>th</sup>. Lily Brooks returned after an absence of seven weeks with impetigo.

'''Distractions'''

February 16<sup>th</sup>. School closed on account of confirmation in Lacey Green Church.   

August 2<sup>nd</sup>. School closed for the chapel outing..   

August t5th. Attendance lower on account of treats and flower shows in the neighbourhood.   

September 26<sup>th</sup>. Some off to Wycombe Fair.   

November 4<sup>th</sup>. School closed on account of alteration of boys and girls porches.

'''Extra-Curricula'''

January 21<sup>st</sup>. Boys of the Ist and 2nd classes taken for a nature walk to Speen where the will play the Speen boys their return football match.   

February 24<sup>th</sup>. Boys left at 3.15 pm to play the P.Ris. Nat. school at football.   

March 1<sup>st.</sup> Class 1 went down Slad lane to have an observation lesson on “Trees, how to distinguish them in winter”.   A record of the weather pressure and the rain is entered on the weather chart daily.   

June 24th. Empire Day.Today’s lessons were on the Empire and the flag and on the watchword of the Empire, so grandly exemplified in the life of the late King Edward VII.   Responsibility, duty, sympathy and self-sacrifice.  

July 4<sup>th</sup>. Infants taken into hayfield for lesson on "haymaking".

'''Requisites'''

April 15<sup>th</sup>. An '''aneroid barometer''' has been obtained and a '''rain gauge'''.   

April 15<sup>th</sup>. Aquired '''weights and scales, tapes''' '''and a land chain''', which will make arithmetic more practical

'''Notes'''

January 18<sup>th</sup> Schoolroom used for a '''political meeting this evening'''.   

January 19th. The Revd. Robson (manager) visited and saw the '''damage which had been''' done the previous evening.   

June 15<sup>th</sup>. Alfred Smith and Harold Weller are being '''employed at stone picking''' by Wm. Saunders of Flowers Bottom.   I have reported them to the attendance officer.   

September 26<sup>th</sup>. Harold and Sidney Weller off '''stone picking''' at Bradenham.

'''H.M.I. Report'''

This school is in a very healthy condition and I am much pleased with the way in which the work is being carried on.   The teaching is thorough and well thought out and the level of attainment generally high.   The children take an interest in what they do and work keenly.   The written word is particularly neat.   In the composition of the highest group there is plenty of original thought.   It is in the direction of the development of the individuality of the children that the main line of advance in the future should lie.   Brushwork shows very creditable results and singing deserves a mention.   In the lower groups the teaching rightly has for its aim the training of the intelligence of the children and good work is being done.   The infants are bright little children, they are managed very pleasantly and are taught with care.   Reading in the first class is remarkably good.

'''Diocesan Report'''

A delightful school in which all the religious subjects had been very well taught especially the Acts and the prayer book.   The infants were very bright in their repetition and answering and the work of the middle group was very satisfactory.  Indeed all the groups were good.  The discipline and tone left nothing to be desired.  I congratulate Mr Wiltshire and his assistants and I award a special certificate for a very well written paper in the upper group.