Barrows at the ready...
THE start of the wheelbarrow race, above, at the annual sports day at Grove School, near Wantage, in 1962.
Queen of the school
Elizabeth I stood larger than life in the foyer of SS Philip and James School in North Oxford.
She was a centrepiece of an exhibition of Elizabethan models by eight- and nine-year-old pupils as part of a project on the Tudor period in 1974.
The Queen was packed with wastepaper, cardboard, cotton wool and stockings and dressed in material designed by the children.
Alongside the Queen were replicas of ships made from cornflake boxes and dolls made from washing-up bottles. On the walls were pictures showing period costumes made from paper and other materials.
Swimming in waste paper
PUPILS at Windmill School, Deddington, collected tons of waste paper to help pay for a swimming pool.
The pool was to be built at the new Grove Comprehensive School at Bloxham, near Banbury, which would replace Windmill School.
The picture, taken in 1970, shows pupils watching 14-year-old Derek Scatter weighing some of the bundles.
They had already sold paper worth £29 to paper mills and were aiming to raise £1,000 so that the pool could open by the spring of 1972.
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