Grove Church of England Primary School launched an appeal in 1990 to raise £12,000 for a new minibus. The existing bus was due to be retired in two years, but parents didn’t want to leave fundraising until the last minute. Events planned included a May fair, summer ball and a cow drop, with the children guessing where in a field of cows the cowpats would land.

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Grove Show attracted the usual large crowds in 1987. Among the visitors were, left to right, Penelope Payne, Charlotte Marshall and Lindsey Newman, pictured feeding the goats.

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Gymnasts at Millbrook Junior School entered their first competition – the Oxfordshire Schools’ Championships – in 1980 and won the team trophy. Tracy West takes a leap, watched by Alison Roberts, Lisa Singleton, Angela Whiting, Marie Hornblow, Joanne Prentice and Hazel Baxterdale.