Stories & parent life — Page 5

The school archives · Creekmouth, Yardley Gobion & Great Yarmouth

Attendance Poor, Circus in Town: Holiday Given

Victorian school log books had a policy for the day the circus came, and it is the most realistic policy in British education. I have introduced it for Saturday jobs.

School records, 1887–1902; a later circus projectRead the story

The school archives · Cumbria & the national headlines

The Head Was Joking About the Goggles. The Sun Wasn’t.

In 2004 a Cumbrian head told his pupils, in jest, that conkers needed safety goggles. Within days there were seven television crews in the yard. I made a similar joke on a Tuesday.

Cummersdale Primary, near Carlisle, autumn 2004Read the story