May 12th 1930. The folding doors were added much later. We wrote on slates and, later on, Millboards with chalk. For sums we used ball frames. The word abacus was not used.
Weather seems to have been important.
Wet days were dreary and very uncomfortable and long sunny days were bliss. At lunch time we ate our lunch in the shelter of the buttresses in the front of the building, or on the way to the playground where the boys went to the right of the path and the girls to the left. Tip and Tig' and 'Beds' were played, and I remember Rounders being introduced. Races were run and I was always last. In good weather we got a mid-morning break and we were let out to the old graveyard, where we sat and played on the flat tombstones.