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28/9/1938;
Considered it necessary to fit gas masks at the request of the Local ARP
Committee, in view of the grave national emergency.
Upper boys are employed constructing an air raid shelter
11/9/1939
Thirty two children evacuated from London to Bures because the war has
started
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6/10/1939
Mrs Neil, mother of two evacuees children from Ilford visited the
school to explain that she had come down to take her children and
those of her two neighbours home.
She considered that with air raid shelters and eight barrage balloons
in an adjacent park, they would be far safer at Ilford than Bures
10/5/1940
Because of the cancellation of Bank Holiday consequence up the invasion
of Holland and Belgium, I phoned the Education Committee and was
instructed to open the school as usual on Monday
11/5/1940
Wireless instruction from the Board of Education ordered schools
in reception areas to re-open on Tuesday morning. Accordingly the
school which should have opened on Monday was deferred until Tuesday
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14/6/1940
Representatives from the County Architects Dept called to take measurements
for Air Raid Protection
14/6/1940
Windows treated during the weekend with anti-splinter solutions and wire
netting fixed to some of the windows.
12/9/11940
In future when an air raid warning is given at night, school will not
start until 10.00am
6/11/1940
The school caretaker Mrs A Willingham seriously injured. Her husband who
looks after the heating system was killed when their home in Nayland road
was wrecked by a bomb
8/11/1940
Mrs Willingham died this morning
12/10/1942
Instructions received not to light the boiler until the temperature dropped
to 50C
12/7/1943
Sgt Conroy from West Suffolk Constabulary visited the school to explain
the children the dangers of touching bombs
29.9.1943
Senior children weighed and measured to check if they qualified for additional
clothing coupons. Official forms were issued to those who qualified
23/12/1943
Children of the senior class accompanied by the Headmaster dined with
members of the American Air Force at a neighbouring Air Station ( editor
- this no doubt would have been up at Wormingford)
16/6/1944
Several windows damaged by blast from a German self propelled bomb, which
landed in a field near to Bakers Hall this morning
3/7/1944
Several children from "Fly Bomb Danger Areas" admitted to school
this morning
21/7/1944
During most of the day the Headteacher was engaged in finding billets
for 15 unaccompanied evacuees from London who arrived unexpectedly the
previous evening
8/9/1945
School closed to celebrate Germany's surrender
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