Having looked at your site, and the pictures in the gallery of the Christmas
tree - I realized that was the door into what I think was the old infants
room in 1954! (it did not look much changed, though I think it was painted dark green then) As the newest child, my peg was the 2nd one on the left inside the outside door.

The class room contained a round table for the 5 year olds, 4 double tables
for the 6 year olds arranged in 2 rows in front of the teacher, and 4 double tables for the 7 year olds, which went from back to front along the
far end of the room.

Miss Fairweather was in charge of the infants and was lovely. Mrs Foster was the headmistress and totally terrifying! She came down the steps from her house next to school.

We had reading books but not much else - our 'worksheets' consisted of the cardboard from cornflake packets on which was written sums and copy work. Once you had finished one you were expected to go and get another one - they were kept in a shoe box on a shelf by the door through which you went into the playground - pretending to sort through them to find one I had not done, I used to try and fit the cardboard pieces together to try and make a complete packet!

The only visual aids I recall were a series of black paper strips which
contained all the tables up to 10 and also lists of words that rhymed
bat,cat, fat, hat ...... bin, din, fin, .... They were pinned onto the beams
(were they roof tresses?) that were then about halfway down the room.
All of which were read together every morning. Because of where they were pinned the 5 year olds had to carry their chairs to other side of the beam and look up - I knew all my tables by the time I was six - but did not understand what they meant for ages after!

Progression was in a very strict order. You started on the round table by
that entry door and moved clockwise round it, as you learnt more until you
were back at the door again. It was then that you moved onto the 6 years
table, front left, you then progressed right to the end and then to the back left from where you again moved right. Once you had run out of
6 year old space, you moved to the 7 year old front. When you had progressed to the back, you went into the juniors, moving from left to right and then back a row! (but I never got that far) All this progression had little to do with age as I recall - I can remember being 5 and a half and already in the back row of the sixes and on returning to school aged 6, I was about to wing my way through the 7 year olds, but I moved school at the end of that term, but I have many happy memories of the time a spent there.

Regards
Lindy McGuinness
[registered as Lindsey Diprose in 1954]