SCHOOL ARCHIVE
EDUCATION COMMITTEE - ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
December 2nd 1930
HERTFORD ROAD SCHOOL - RESOLVED - That Miss M. F Knight, at present an assistant at Moulsecoomb Junior Mixed School, be appointed Head Mistress of the above-named School, for full time service and exclusively in the capacity of a teacher, at a salary according to the Burnham Scale....
January 6th 1931
HERTFORD ROAD SCHOOL - RESOLVED - That this School be opened for the admission of scholars after the forthcoming Easter Holidays, and that the following children at the under mentioned Schools living in the district north-east of Ditchling Road, Hollingbury Park Avenue, Hollingbury Road and Upper Hollingdean Road, known as the Harrington Estate, who will be under the age of 10 years and 9 months on the 1st September 1931, be transferred to the new school:-
HERTFORD ROAD SCHOOL - RESOLVED - That Mr and Mrs R.C. Austen of Pelham Street School, be appointed Caretakers and Cleaners of the above named school ......
February 10th 1931
Mr W.E. Hickman, BA, Miss G.H. Bradby,
March 24th 1931
(FINANCE COMMITTEE) RESOLVED TO RECOMMEND - That a telephone exchange line instrument be installed in the New Hertford Road School, at an annual charge of £7 plus cost of outward calls.
April 1st 1931
15th April 1931
The case of a number of children who, according to age and residence, should have attended at
RESOLVED - That the previous decision of the Committee in regard to the children to be required to attend
May 12th 1931
Some early Health and Safety Advice!!!
1st July 1931
(SITES AND WORKS SUB-COMMITTEE)
HERTFORD SCHOOL OPENS - 1931
Argus Article - 21st April 1931
THE
The recently completed
The school is the last word in modern design, and it is situated in one of the rapidly growing district in
The buildings have six classrooms which face onto a glazed verandah and the windows are arranged so that the maximum of fresh air and sunshine may be obtained. Heating and lighting are supplied by electricity. All the interior is plastered and finished with cement dadoes.
The exterior rough cast with Keymer tiled roofs affords a particularly attractive appearance and later when the sloping ground next to Hertford is grassed as a lawn a pleasant setting will be given. The trees have been well preserved.
Before and after the opening a large number of well known people inspected the school.
The Chairman of the Education Committee, Councillor H Hone presided at the ceremony, which was largely attended and with Councillor J N Ward ( Chairman of the Managers) received the Mayor and Mayoress (Alderman S C Thompson JP and Mrs Thompson) and Alderman Stevens.
The School's Amenities
The Mayor, who spoke from a fern decorated platform, said the Education Committee were to be congratulated on having to some extent anticipated the need for the new school, for in that district a new town was growing. The children would have the advantage of a school built on the most modern lines and would get every possible benefit from sunshine and air. One up to date feature he had noticed was that the school was warmed electrically, and he was pleased to see also that there was a school hall. If ever children were happy in school they would be here. The Mayor commented with pleasure on the fact that it was designed by a Brighton architect Mr Gilbert M Simpson FRIBA and built by a
Councillor Hone said there had been a great need for the school. It had been built in record time - 2 years - and it was one of the best the Brighton Education Committee had erected. It was the only school heated through-out with electricity.
Third New School
Alderman Stevens who has devoted nearly half a century of his life to educational work said
A vote of thanks to Alderman Stevens was proposed by Councillor Ward and seconded by Councillor W K Steers ( Chairman of the Elementary Schools Sub-Committee), Councillor J Lintott ( Chairman of the Works and Sites Sub-Committee) proposed and Mrs M F Knight (Head Mistress) seconded a vote of thanks to the Mayor and Mayoress.
Interesting Information!
Electrical Heating
A feature that distinguishes the
The amount of heat is controlled by thermostats fixed in every department. The head teacher can set these thermostats so that, when the temperature reaches the height decided upon, the electricity is automatically cut off. As soon as the temperature falls below the required height the electricity is automatically switched on again. If a cold morning turns into a warm afternoon, down goes the electrical heating in accordance with the change. The temperature may be varied for different rooms, according to discretion. Thus the gymnasium can be kept at a lower temperature than the other rooms.
The apparatus is, indeed, a kind of electrical robot, doing work that is usually associated with a brain. If, so set it will turn on the heat at fixed times and turn it off at fixed times. Thus without human interference the heat can be turned on a quarter of an hour before school assembles and turned off a quarter of an hour before it closes - morning, afternoon and evening. The apparatus will go on turning on and off at the set times even if no further attention is given to the matter by any human being. Further, it can be so set that it will not turn on at all on Saturday and Sundays.
A single setting therefore, suffices for a term, and the system eliminates all fear of anyone forgetting to turn the heat on or off. The system moreover, entirely gets rid of the stokehole, the stoker, coal, oil, matches and smoke.
The practical working of such a system will be watched with interest.