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Category: Cwm School Records

Two Marys

by gbadmin Published October 6, 2011October 8, 2011 Leave a comment

Two Marys (as originally published in the Times Education Supplement April 2010) A local school is closing. All that it  represents will be consigned to history. Cwm School, a warm and productive  place, will cease to be in September after over 130 years. I have been able to look at the School Log  books which…

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Cwm at War

by gbadmin Published October 5, 2011January 22, 2012 Leave a comment

Cwm at War The First World War did not impact much on  Cwm School. They delayed playtime in 1914 so the children could watch soldiers  go past on the train. At Christmas 1915 they held a concert and a collection in  aid of wounded soldiers and on 17 July 1919 the school was closed for…

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Into the Seventies and Eighties

by gbadmin Published October 4, 2011October 8, 2011 Leave a comment

Into the Seventies and Eighties In the  final surviving log book from Cwm School we arrive at the Seventies and we can  continue to examine issues big and small. In 1974 the  school moved into refurbished buildings, but with a sense of disappointment,  especially with the standard of the work. The toilets didn’t flush properly …

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The Punishment Book

by gbadmin Published October 3, 2011October 8, 2011 Leave a comment

The Punishment Book I am so glad we don’t have such a thing  today. The book speaks of a more brutal time – “A Record of Cases of Corporal  Punishment” – as it tells us on the inside cover. The one I have found in Cwm  School dates from 1959 and what strikes you first…

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