Now that the Infant School has sadly gone and is about to be built on, i thought i'd share some memories of going to said school!
I would have gone around...'87-'90 ish time.
I have mostly fond memories, my teachers were (in order i think) Mrs Leader, Mrs Hulloch (sp?) for a time, Miss Jackson and Mrs Welding and Mrs Farrell ( i think she was a support teacher?). Did anyone else go around the same time or remember the teachers? Mrs Kernohan was also there but she took the other class to mine, so i rarely got her.
We always had to sing 'we're going home, sshhh shh (fingers on lips)" at the end of each day in Mrs Leaders class, it was embarrassing then, never mind now!
I remember Miss Jackson used to play the guitar, she used to get us to sing Puff the Magic Dragon near hometimes.
'Numberland' books, they were the thing to have! You got a higher number book the futher you progressed, i remember it was quite competitive, or at least to me it was, i never had the highest number in the class sadly.
Playing in the yard, the yard at the front overlooking the valley was much bigger, used to play hopscotch, hide and seek etc, not much more to entertain us then but it seemed to be enough! I remember there was a wooden/brick building to the side of the school in the side yard area, we were never allowed to go into it, it was always locked. Does anyone remember what it was? It must have previously been used for something but i don't know what.
One day myself and Gary Collinson and 2 others (i can't remember who) went outside of the school gates as bizarrely there were shells on the path down the road and we wanted to get them, i remember we were briskly sent down to Mrs Jarvis room, we all thought we were going to get 'the cane' although i think it had been stopped long before then! We just got a good telling off but it was scary at the time!!
I remember Mrs Jarvis room being really neat, dark wood, coal fire, nice and cosy, quite different to elsehwere in the school.
Another thing i remember...is the school had discos, and i'm sure older kids used to go...i.e i don't remember them from the school but they were there at the discos. The big thing at the time was the strobe light and the new song that i remember playing was "i've got the power" (1990).
Mr Clough was the caretaker and he and his wife lived close by in Cooks Cottages, possibly even the adjoining house.
The school closed a few years later. I think by the time my sister went to school in 94, the 'lego' Junior School had become infants and juniors.
Who else went to the Infant School (or what i'd call the infant school, i know it wasn't always just infants!)
As an aside, i noticed Gleeson homes had the site advertised as White House Court to start with...mustn't have done their research! It would have been confused with Whitehouse Court where i now reside! Temperance Court is more like it, although why didn't they just call is School Court?