Reference
P12/29/3
Title
Correspondence regarding Greenfield Church of England School, including a number of topics but largely concerned with the need to separate the school into primary and secondary groups in different accommodation to comply with the 1944 Education Act.
Date free text
1945-1949
Production date
From: 1945 To: 1949
Scope and Content
the file includes the following:
-letter protesting at Home Guard being allowed to drink beer at the school but not the police at a planned function [1945];
-ill tempered correspondence between the headmistress and vicar regarding increased rent for the school house [1946];
-ill tempered correspondence between vicar and Diocesan Board of Religious Education regarding possible conversion of Greenfield to a two class school, one primary one secondary following the provisions of the 1944 Education Act [1946];
-reports of school inspections by Diocesan Director of Religious Education [1946-1949];
-correspondence regarding repairs necessary at the school [1946-1948];
-correspondence with and concerning Cecil C.Handisyde of Hemel Hempstead [Herts], architect and his proposed changes to the school to provide two separate classes to comply with the terms of the 1944 Education Act [1946-1948];
-newspaper report of Flitton parish meeting expressing the hope that Greenfield School may have “full and comprehensive measure of State controlled education…free of all sectarian influences” [1946];
-complaint by headmistress that she had not been shown a copy of the Diocesan inspector’s report on the school [1946];
-resignation through ill health and of school caretaker Mrs.E.Lane and subsequent re-engagement despite possible friction between Mrs.Lane and the headteacher [1946];
- agreement to provide flagstaffs to Greenfield and Pulloxhill Schools as a memorial of victory in World War Two [1946];
-possible school visits to Whipsnade Zoo and County Agricultural Show at Wrest Park, Silsoe [1946];
-illegal refusal of the vicar to send notices of governors’ meetings to Dr.Eric Roberts despite the fact that he was the elected representative of Flitton Parish Council [1946];
-article in Bedfordshire Times and Vicar of Flitton’s supporting letter in reply regarding the cost of implementing the 1944 Education Act locally [1947];
-estimate for overhaul of the School clock by Smith of Derby [1948];
-correspondence regarding confinement of headmistress Mrs.Hobbs [1948];
-detailed criticism by Eric R.Roberts of the poor standard of work of a pupil at whose desk he sat during vote counting after a parish election and implications for the general standard of education in the parish [1949];
-letter from Eric R.Roberts suggesting that Bedfordshire County Council and a number of the local population wished to make Greenfield a non-church school [1949];
-decision of Ministry of Education not to allow children to transfer from Greenfield to Flitwick County Primary at 11+ following objections of the School Managers [1949];
-discussion as to possible transfer of the headmistress and whether Greenfield School merited a headmaster given its small size also whether children from Pulloxhill might be transferred to Greenfield [1949];
-damage to the School clock [1949]
Level of description
file