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There goes that apple for teacher. The baskets of fruit which the children prepared for the School's harvest festival celebration at Rosegrove School.

This full page article by Sue Wilson with pictures by Mark Lewis was one in a 1969 series entitled "Our School" and describes each school and its staff in more detail than below. We have used the six images shown in the paper (3 for each school) and a summary of the article for each school. There are more images (without descriptions) of children at the schools in the archive.
Although Wood Top and Rosegrove Infants' Schools differ a great deal in size and teaching curriculum, both have something in common in striving to give the pupils the best possible start in life.
A list of interesting lessons, combining colourful apparatus with modern visual aids all designed to encourage youngsters to use their minds and hands, fills the curriculum at Rosegrove Infants' School. The present headmistress Mrs. Marian Beaumont, has been at the school for four years. As the school year progresses the roll will increase to about 135 pupils. There are four classes all grouped according to age. Two of the classes are used as an overflow for boys of Rosegrove Secondary Modern School, but the infants' school still has five classrooms and a large hall.
The school's log book has many interesting entries including one in 1925 about a little four-year-old boy called Frank, who pushed a piece of chalk up his nose and had to be taken to the doctor's surgery. The serious diphtheria epidemic in 1934 is also mentioned when the school attendance was down to 40%. The log book mentions that in 1944 Miss Ruddock retired after 40 years' service in Rosegrove Schools. She is still enjoying a well-earned retirement and the staff in the school wish her well. Parents have always been welcome in the school but twice a year they are invited to the harvest festival and the carol service and nativity play at Christmas.