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Services at St Chad’s The Happiest Days of My Life A long time ago in the reign of Queen Victoria, the rich and the poor were sharply divided. One of the verses now removed from the children’s hymn All Things Bright and Beautiful read ‘The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them high or lowly and ordered their estate’. Generations of school children sang it at morning assembly without ever questioning the words. It was just the way the world was. Poor children did not have an education until the mid-19th century. From the age of around five they formed part of the workforce on farms or in factories or mills. Several Acts of Parliament were passed in order to stop this practice and gradually all children had, by law, to be educated and schools as we know them began to evolve. It was however still tough. Many country children had to walk several miles to school, either alone or with siblings from a very young age. In those days parents did not accompany their children to school, let alone drive them in a pony and trap! During the day they would learn the three ‘R’s, history, geography and scripture. Teachers were strict and applied cane and ruler regularly to keep discipline. Children who did not keep up were made to stand in a corner wearing a Dunce’s cap. My own early education in the 1940s and 50s was not radically different from this but with composition (creative writing), handwork (art and craft) and singing added to the curriculum. And, as my formative years were spent on the Arbourthorne estate, I can add ‘survival’. However, having failed the 11-plus exam (I was more often off sick then at school), instead of going to a secondary modern school I was transferred to an open-air school when life was radically different. The school had less than 100 pupils aged five to 16 divided into four classes plus what was then known as a remedial class. Many of the children had complex medical conditions but others simply did not get enough to eat – many foods will still rationed until the late 1950s. Although we learned little about the three ‘R’s, we learned a lot about life. Most of our time was spent out of doors or in classrooms open to all weathers except snow and pouring rain. We had three meals a day: breakfast of porridge and treacle on arrival; dinner and tea of hot milk and bread and jam or cocoa and fruit cake on Fridays before leaving. Although we were given plenty of TLC from the teachers and full-time school nurse, discipline was still strict. The remedial class teacher named Mrs Boreham (known as Fanny Bore ’em) still had a cane (Mr Wood) hanging from her desk and made regular use of the ruler. The teacher of the top class (known as Pop) often used the slipper on naughty boys. Bullying however was unknown and we children learned to take care of each other, the school cat Candy and all other creatures great and small. We had a whole hour singing lesson on Thursdays and we certainly sang the all the verses of All Things Bright and Beautiful including the last verse which reads: ‘He gave his eyes to see them and lips that we might tell how great is God Almighty who has made all things well’. I look back on my school days as truly the happiest days of my life Sylvia Bennett St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA Tel: (0114) 274 5086 Page 24 email: office@stchads.org website: www.stchads.org
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