Reference
SDRenhold1/4
Title
Logbook [with other papers, see SDRenhold1/4/1-6]
Date free text
Apr 1974 - Nov 1990
Production date
From: 1974 To: 1990
Scope and Content
General Themes
- School improvements and repairs
- School equipment (typewriters, sewing machines etc)
- School Inspections and Reports
- School trips, visits and residentials
- Staffing and pupil details
- Health (dental, hearing, mumps, measles, chicken pox etc)
- PTA meetings
- School organisation changes, new school building etc
- Royal Family events
- Additional newspaper and magazine clippings, pamphlets etc. throughout the log
1974
24 Apr: Banda duplicating machine delivered
16 May: Educational trip to Stoke Bruerne
15 Jun: Garden party at Howbury Hall with entertainment, singing, music and country dancing
19 Jul: Details of student numbers, those going to Goldington Middle School and swimming certificates
03 Sep: Details of teachers and their classes, new vinyl floor laid in main room and new stacking furniture. Changes to room layouts.
03 Dec: Football and netball teams to Keysoe. Results of matches.
1975
28 Feb: Police come to talk about road safety
13 Mar: Police show a film 'Never go with strangers'
28 Apr: School meals organiser visit to discuss school meals
01 May: Absences due to mumps and german measles
09 Jun: Marked trees in woods for nature trail
17 Jun: New Phillips tape recorder delivered and fire extinguisher and blanket fixed ready for first cookery lessons
13 Oct: Playground marked with stepping stone, hop scotch, pitches etc
03 Nov: Using village hall for PE and movement lessons daily
25 Nov: Pump connected to electricity supply
1976
07 Jan: Plans received of new school to be built on site near church
20 Jan: Cooker installed in classroom and 'great excitement' for first batch of fairy cakes
25 Mar: Builders start at site of new school
11 May: Children go to Bedford via coach to see the Queen
16 Jul: Comments on weather being very hot for several weeks
23 Sep: Architect visit and observations on build of new school. Trusses for roof going up.
08 Oct: Discussions at County Hall around finishings, fittings and décor of new school
1977
03 Mar: Headteacher shown around new school
06 Apr: Last day in old school building observations. Farewell service to the old building with any ex-pupil welcome to attend. Those present signed the log book.
2 pages follow with the signatures of those people present at the last day of the old school
26 Apr: First day at new school
28 May: Jubilee fete held, silver jubilee mugs given to the children
13 Jun: Chicken pox epidemic
1978
19 Jan: Gym club started after school
08 Feb: Kitchen flooded with water through ceiling
09 Mar: Tree planting complete
06 Jul: 10th birthday of the last 10 year old boy at the school
21 Jul: 15 leaving to Alban School, Great Barford. Re-organisation complete and Renhold School is now a lower school with the age range of 5-9+
20 Sep: Type-writer for typing large script and new sewing machine
13 Nov: Ink Roneo Duplicator, school ties, head phones and slide projector
1979
08 Jan: Oil delivered so threatened closures due to strikes do not apply
25 Jan: Weather particularly bad, heavy snow and ice
12 Feb-16 Feb: Many mentions of snow and ice. 15th Feb snowing all day, high winds and drifting, worst blizzard for 30 years
23 Mar: Mother's day concert and 2 benches and a maypole gifted by the P.T.A
03 May: School closed for General Election as used as a polling station
28 Sep: Librarians from County Library come to catalogue books and make the collection into a proper library
1980
25 Mar: Enthronement of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Colour television brought to school so children could watch the ceremony
1981
23 Jul: Leavers service and presentation of commemorative Charles & Diana crowns
1982
05 Feb: Road safety officer showed films on Green Cross Code
1983
13 Jan: Meals supervisor called to discuss the 'points system'
15 Mar: Points system for school dinners started
10 Nov: Teachers and Head Teacher attending a computer course
20 Dec: Watched film 'Clash of the Titans'
1984
21 Jan: PTA held disco in school hall
May: Newspaper clipping titled 'Tradition led a dance as sex equality comes to the school fete' about the May King & Queen at the May Fair
09 Jun: Children take part in Bedford & District School's Swimming Association's Lower School's Gala. Names of children who took first, second and third places
1985
01 Mar: 2 students played recorder duet in The Civic Theatre in Music Festival. First time entry from the school.
29 Nov: 2 new trees gifted to school and planted
1986
25 Jan: Barn dance held
15 Feb: Pipes burst causing damage to 2 class rooms and books / equipment
24 Mar: Strong winds blow off part of the roof
07 May: Slides shown on the dangers of the river
1987
14 Jan: Pipes burst, school closed until 19 Jan
16 May: School flooded again with great loss of equipment
07 Sep: School kitchen no longer used for cooking, meals delivered from Woodside Middle School
07 Oct: Written note from HMI about the day they spent at the school and the children
1988
05 Mar: Recorder duets in The Corn Exchange
04 May: London Marathon runner came and talked about health and fitness and shower their medal and blanket
03 Nov: Work being done in preparation for the wall friezes for Book Week.
Nov: Detailed report on the preparation and set up for book week in the school
19 Nov: Football club commences
29 Nov: Road safety officer visits and shows 2 videos related to crossing roads
1989
20 Apr: Dutch Dwarf Rabbit purchased for school. Voted on the name 'Flopsy'
25 Apr: Dental clinic rep comes to discuss dental hygiene
25 May: Children visit a local beekeeper
05 Jun: Horse brought to the school playground to be shoed
1990
26 Jan: Dreadful gales, tiles blown off roof
01 Feb: School trip to Science Museum in London
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Level of description
item
Closed until
2085