School's out – now it’s time for us to take over.

As pupils emptied their desks, took home their term reports to their parents and deserted the playgrounds, their places were taken by their younger brothers and sisters.

They put space and equipment to good use – as this boy, pictured above on a rocking horse – identified only as Lee – demonstrated at a summer playscheme at Cowley St John School in East Oxford in 1971.