A CLASSROOM opened at Cooper School in 1988 to help pupils arriving from primary school. It was intended to make the move less scary. Divisional educational officer Joan Crouch, who cut a red ribbon to open it, is seen in the first picture with two of the first pupils, Sarah Lak and Andrew Hopkins, both 10.

Bicester Twins Club opened its doors at Brookside School in 1985, to help parents with twins. Two-year-olds James and Laurence Allen and Peter and Robert Macer, in the second picture, lost no time getting down to play.

Bicester Choral and Operatic Society performed Orpheus in the Underworld in 1989. The third picture shows, from left, Tim Lane (Pluto), Sally Ross (Diana), Mike Cowdy (Jupiter) and Penny Armstrong (Venus) in one of the scenes.