SCHOOL LOG BOOK &

THE PUNISHMENT BOOK!

THE SCHOOL OPENED ON

AUGUST 28TH, 1911. WE

CELEBRATED OUR CENTENARY

JUST OVER 100 YEARS LATER!

THE LOG BOOK PROVIDES US WITH A

FASCINATING INSIGHT INTO THE EARLY DAYS OF OUR

SCHOOL. THERE ARE MANY SIMILARITIES BUT ALSO A

WEALTH OF DIFFERENCES! NOTICE HERE THE MANY

ABSENTEES AND THE REASONS GIVEN – WHOOPING

COUGH IS NOW LARGELY ERADICATED!

MRS.BOWEN AND MRS.SYMES DRESSED UP AT OUR CENTENARY DAY

CELEBRATIONS.

ALL THE PUPILS DRESSED UP AND HAD AN ‘EDWARDIAN’ DAY WITH LESSONS, GAMES AND A SPECIAL ASSEMBLY.

THE FIRST WORLD WAR. PUPILS WORKED TOGETHER TO HELP THE WAR EFFORT BY COLLECTING MONEY AND KNITTING

GARMENTS. TODAY, WE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT DESERVING CAUSES BOTH LOCALLY AND GLOBALLY

AS WE PREPARE THE PUPILS FOR SOCIAL ACTION.

WITH THE WAR OVER, AT LAST, CELEBRATIONS WERE HELD ORGANISED BY ‘THE PREFECTS’. TODAY, WE CELEBRATE MANY HAPPY EVENTS AND USE NON-UNIFORM DATES TO RAISE FUNDS FOR

GOOD CAUSES. OUR YEAR 6 PUPILS ACT AS MONITORS TO SUPERVISE CORRIDORS AND HELP WITH

YOUNGER CHILDREN – A TASK THEY RELISH!

YOU WILL ALSO NOTICE THAT THE LOCAL AUTHORITY EXAMINED THE SCHOOL –

FORESHADOWING OUR RECENT OFSTED INSPECTION!

PUPILS ENJOYED REGULAR DENTAL INSPECTIONS BUT IT WASN’T ALL BAD NEWS! YOU WILL READ

HERE OF YET MORE PARTIES AND THE GRANTING OF A FILM LICENCE TO THE SCHOOL. TODAY, WITH

INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARDS AND INTERNET RESOURCES TO ADD GLAMOUR TO LESSONS, OUR PUPILS

DON’T KNOW HOW LUCKY THEY ARE!

1936 SAW THE DEATH OF KING GEORGE 5TH WHICH GAVE RISE TO A DAY’S HOLIDAY FOR

MOURNING. THIS DID NOT PREVENT THE ARITHMETIC TEST, HOWEVER! STAFF ILLNESSES WERE

CONSIDERABLE THIS YEAR!

1941 SAW THE RETIREMENT OF THE HEADTEACHER, MISS THOMPSON, WHO HAD BEEN AT THE

SCHOOL SINCE 1911!

THE PUNISHMENT BOOK!

THESE SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES! TODAY, WE DO NOT USE

PHYSICAL PUNISHMENTS EVEN THOUGH MANY OF THE SAME

OFFENCES STILL OCCUR. SOME MAY SAY THAT THE CANE ‘NEVER

DID ME ANY HARM’ BUT, AT THE TIME, WE CAN BE SURE IT MADE

A MARK!

1912-1915: AT FIRST, STROKES ON THE HAND – WITH A

CANE – WERE THE NORM!

MR.WAREING HAS TAUGHT AT THE SCHOOL FOR 30 YEARS. HERE HE IS DRESSED UP IN EDWARDIAN DISGUISE FOR OUR

CENTENARY DAY ON OCTOBER 5TH, 2011!

1915- 1917: SOME OF THE OFFENCES SEEM RELATIVELY MILD

FOR SUCH PUNISHMENT THESE DAYS –UNTRUTHFULNESS WAS

TAKEN ESPECIALLY SERIOUSLY WITH 4 STROKES!

THE ‘ROARING TWENTIES’ – AND CERTAIN PUPILS WOULD

APPEAR TO HAVE ‘ROARED’ QUITE A LOT!

A ‘SHORT, SHARP SHOCK’ FROM MR.WAREING!

1938: WAR, RATIONING AND EVACUATION WERE ON THE

WAY….AND DISOBEDIENCE CONTINUES AT NORTH EALING

SCHOOL!

1939-40: AN INTRIGUING CASE TO START –‘WRONG USE OF

INK’. SHORTLY FOLLOWED BY ‘RIDICULOUS BEHAVIOUR’!

1947-1952: DISOBEDIENCE WAS THE MAJOR PROBLEM DEALT

WITH AFTER THE WAR. PERHAPS A REFLECTION OF UNSETTLED

TIMES?

1952-1961: THE HAND IS NOW ABANDONED IN FAVOUR OF

OTHER, MORE CREATIVE, METHODS!

AT THIS POINT, WE DECIDED THAT SOME MEMORIES MAY BE TOO RECENT

FOR THE OFFENDERS TO WANT TO SEE ‘IN PRINT’. APOLOGIES IF YOU FIND

YOURSELF LISTED HERE!

IT IS WORTH NOTING THAT THESE ARE PAGES FROM THE ‘OFFICIAL’ BOOK

OF PUNISHMENT. NO RECORDS ARE KEPT FOR THE WRITING OF LINES, RULER

SLAPS, STANDING IN CORNERS AND OTHER ‘SHORT, SHARP SHOCKS’ ADMINISTERED BEHIND THE CLOSED DOOR OF THE CLASSROOM!

AND IF YOU TOLD YOUR MUM…..YOU PROBABLY GOT WORSE AT HOME!

2011 ONWARDS!

OUR SCHOOL IS CHANGING RAPIDLY AND IS FACING AN INCREASING

RANGE OF CHALLENGES AS OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY CHANGES. WE ARE

PROUD TO BE AN INCLUSIVE SCHOOL WHERE ALL ARE WELCOMED AND

GIVEN THE BEST POSSIBLE CHANCE TO SUCCEED IN LIFE.

DISCUSSION, EXPLANATION AND REASONING ARE USED WITH PUPILS

THAT STEP OUTSIDE OF OUR EXPECTED CODES OF CONDUCT AS WE

ENCOURAGE THEM TO FACE LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY.

‘TALK,TALK,TALK IS BETTER THAN WAR, WAR,WAR’

WINSTON CHURCHILL