The Schools

 
In 1909 I allowed the First Class boys to leave early at 11 o'clock this morning (missing Scripture lesson) to see the meet of the foxhounds in the village.
January 1909, Had a complaint from Mrs W Parry respecting Mrs Pescott's treatment of Dorothy Parry. I wished her to go and see the Managers. I also asked Mrs Pescott not to use a stick in punishing infants and destroyed one that has been used lately by her in that room.
June 1912, Mrs Cobden Unwin visited the school and told the children she would again send them all to the sea for the day in August.
The May Queen was voted for; Gertrude Lovejoy being the successful girl.
September 1912, George Tiller left this school, having gained a Scholarship for the Midhurst Grammar School.
5 February 1915, Average for the past week 30. Attendance very bad, influenza and measles.
15 February 1915, Attendance gets worse; only 19 present today and incessant coughing all day.
19 February 1915, Dr Smedley sent a telegram to Mr Lyne [ the Rector] saying the school had better close.
 
In 1921 a report by Maud Davies ACP, who had taken over the school in January 1918, says
'This little school. though weak in many respects, has at last turned the corner. The children begin work independently of their teachers and they are keener and more alert and if they still progress it is hoped that they will in time reach the standard of perfection required by the Head Teacher and Staff'.
 
On 15 September 1932, the school opened after an extended summer holiday due to extensions and alterations. Two new cloakrooms, a new coal house, a new store room and a folding partition between the two main classrooms had been added. The whole work cost £352. The boys urinals were faced and roofed with large 1" thick slabs of slate, one of which, fortunately from the roof, still exists as the top of a low garden table in the Clayton's garden at Upper Common.