Badshot Lea School 130th birthday

It was on November 11, 1895, that the first children arrived at Badshot Lea School, walking through the new entrances marked ‘Boys’ and ‘Girls’ facing onto Badshot Lea Road. Last week, 130 years to the day, the pupils all came through the entrance off the car park at the back of the school and then stepped back in time for Victorian Day.
In 1895 there were 70 infants but 68 older pupils up to the compulsory leaving age of 11. Now there are 148 between the ages of four and seven. The modern children arrived dressed as Victorians and spent the day learning about the life experienced by those of their great-great-great-great grandparents’ generation