Headmaster's Notes 14
(1971)

A Ministry of Education in the early 1950's decreed, on what evidence no one knows, that a three-form entry boys' grammar school could expect to have a sixth form of no more than sixty. Hence four so-called division rooms were provided. Unfortunately it was also considered that a school could be administered in an office of minute proportions (now the deputy headmaster's room). The headmaster's room therefore had to become the office and the headmaster had perforce to move out to one of the division rooms-leaving three for teaching. The School has laboured under this grave disadvantage for ten years. As present and past pupils well know. But however urgent the need, there are always schools with a more urgent need and there is a tendency for officialdom at Department of Education and Science level to say that if a school manages to contain its population, then it must continue so to do. The local authority has at last found a means of helping the School and in September we saw four mobile classrooms just above the Hall and Junior Common Room.

This timely help means unfortunately that we cannot proceed with the Music block project which I had hoped to see, since the borough could only have helped, if the project had been necessary to overcome a shortage of accommodation.