The school log book shows that in the early 1890s attendance seriously fluctuated due to epidemics of measles, whooping cough, diphtheria and scarlet fever. It was a requirement that registers were kept neatly and  accurately. One teacher was reprimanded for not 'closing' his register appropriately!

As numbers in the school grew it quickly became overcrowded.  Concern was expressed by inspectors that instruction in housecraft could not be properly taught due to lack of space. In 1918 the school was closed for a month due to the Spanish Flu epidemic. P.E. took the form of 'drill' on the playground. The children were regularly examined in religious instruction.

In 1938 with the second world war looming, plans were made to put air raid shelters behind the old school building under a portion of the layground. In 1940 the Headteacher received an official  reprimand for keeping the children in school during air raids instead of taking them to the shelters. He did not consider the shelter a suitable place for the children as it was wet and very unhealthy. The old school building received a direct hit in May 1941 but many children had already been evacuated.

The present junior school which was intended to be the secondary school, was completed in 1949 but was not officially opened until 1951. In 1950 the school was  divided into separate infant and junior schools and in 1962 a new pre-fabricated swimming pool was erected at a cost of £650 - the money being raised by the parents. We still swim in this pool today,  although the liner has been changed!