I can clearly remember the Christmas parties organised by Mr. Wallis for the first and second forms every year (at least whilst I was there).  We played the Winking Game, where we all sat in a large circle and had to run round the outside when we were winked at.  Then we had to dance the Roger Decoverley and did get it right eventually!  A bit different from today's discos - even at Primary School!

During lunch hours we had dancing in the hall and how we envied Daphne Blampied and Marion Buck (?) dancing the rumba in their high heels.

To celebrate the Coronation in 1937 we were all marching down Pound Lane to the Granada Cinema in Church Road to see a film.  There was a cloudburst and we all had to disperse absolutely saturated.  We did go another day but to a different film, much more light-hearted - something to do with roses!

Pop Newton was our form master and we persuaded him to come to camp at Princes Risborough, just before we sat our General Schools Certificate.  He slept in the hut on a camp bed and we had a wonderful weekend.

 I sat the Civil Service Clerical Officer examinations in January 1939 and was called up into the Air Ministry in the July before the end of term, sadly.  The office was evacuated to Westonbirt and then to Stroud in the September, so I was in the Cotswolds whilst the School went to Northampton.

Phyllis Hillhouse (nee Wilks)
1934-39