Suffolks Primary School

suffolks on fire

For those who were attending suffolks at the time does any one remember the fire in the building that was leased to bishops (through Suffolks)we all had a part to play in that one when it was decided that a magazine should be put together to sell. Spencer Divine designed the front cover and all the pupils then wrote poems about the incident.It was not so long ago that while sorting through my things i found this magazine, how young we all were and how old i feel now

150th anniversary

We peformed a big play for the anniversary, i was playing a small role of a french man going on about the commonwealth with Daniel Arnold, but the best parts were given to Daniel Brown and Marios both as Alan Whicker, the play was showed a couple of times.We also got a letter from Mageret Thatcher as she stopped the school from closing a number of years earlier. The time capsule is it still there??

School name

As Barbara Young said there were three schools in one at Suffolks, Infants, Junior and Senior in 1949. The Secondry Modern was in Southbury Road, can't remeber the name.
I have a memory of a Nursery (kindergarten) on the side of the Senior School next to the playing fields. Mostly I remember this as the staff had to crushed those half moon vitamin C tablets between two spoons before I could swallow them. I think I was the only one that had this swallowing problem.
I went to the Infants about 1944 to what must have been a play school because that's what we did. I remember blocks of wood possibly with letters on that you could build things with like the outline of a boat (memory fading). I first saw the school when all the tiles were blown off the roof when a V2 landed in the street next to the school.
After a while I moved on to a real school class, don't remember the teacher but Blazby was the headmistress then. Does anyone remember the red pants we had to wear if we happened to wet ourselves?
From the Infants I went on to Junior School, I had two teachers there, the last one being Miss Bennett. There was also a teacher named Mr Sinclair. In January I broke my left leg and as the plaster gave me a bent leg I had to sit on a chair at assembly whereas a girl with a straight leg plaster sat on the floor. Later in 1949 I was moved to Caterhatch Junior School that had just been opened. I was only there for one year, after taking the 11+ I went on to Tottenham County at High Cross, Tottenham.

Scouts and BB at Suffolks.

While I was at Suffolks I was a Life Boy. We had a seamans blue jersey, blue shorts and a sailor type hat. Meetings we in the Senior School assembly rooms. Don't remember much about that time. The Boys Brigade were in the Junior School assembly room. I left the Life Boys to become a Boy Scout instead.
I went to the 21st Enfield Scouts at Suffolks. We were in a large room at the end of the Infants School near the Senior School. Memorys of Indian Clubs, bean bags and songs, going to church parades and getting new badges to sew on our uniform. I left the scouts at about the time I got my first pair of long trousers, couldn't stand the idea of going about in shorts again. I became a Troop Leader in 1980 but that's another story and another country.