Voices of Hickling:  Hickling Infant School  (page 3)

There were some 150 children on the School's books in 1883, eighty more than the building was designed for, and the accommodation was inadequate. A separate classroom for the infants was seriously needed and in 1885 an extension, providing a new room, was built.


A School Garden and Gardening Class was started in 1913 on what is now the School playing field The Log Book for 22 September 1916 states: "Owing to the lateness of the harvest most of the older boys are absent this week and the gardening lesson has therefore been omitted", and on 2 October 1916 it records: "...the Gardening Class has become much reduced in number owing to the exceptional number of boys who have left for employment in consequence of the War." By the late 1930s the Garden produce was being sold to assist the School.


The School Garden profits for 1939-49 were £7.3s.5d. and part of this was spent on a wireless set which arrived at the School in September 1940. However, in due course Gardening dropped out of the syllabus, and by 15 September 1959 the Log Book notes that: "The Garden and meadow have been ploughed and seeded for grass."

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