Miss Fanny Wicks - Head Teacher 1880-1882
Selected entries from the school log books from 1880–1882
1880
| 5th January 1880 |
Fanny Wicks becomes Mistress of the school. |
| 5th February 1880 |
Willie Smithwaite received a "stripe on the hand with the pointer for fighting and for persisting in disobeying the monitor". |
| 21st April 1880 |
Miss Wicks has made a good start in the infants school. The children are kindly taught and some of them answer very nicely, but care should be taken not to allow a few children to give all the answers. |
| 18th June 1880 |
The needlework of the infant girls is very creditable. |
| 27th August 1880 |
Attendance low as hop-picking commenced on Wednesday afternoon. |
5 weeks hop-picking
1881
| 27th January 1881 |
No children attended on Wednesday due to the heavy fall of snow. |
| 9th July 1881 |
Attendance poor owing to the hay making and curranting season. |
| 16th July 1881 |
Frederick Word sent home from school – and his mother ordered by authority of the managers to keep him at home for 2 weeks so that during the interval, she might make them fit to be with the other children. |
| 30th July 1881 |
The Words came back to school but as their bodies and clothes were still covered with vermin, they were not allowed today. |
1882
| 31st March 1882 |
Attendance not so good as usual owing to the prevalence of mumps. |
| 1st July 1882 |
Sewing and knitting are very praiseworthy. |
| 4th September 1882 |
Miss Wicks resigned. The managers, parents and children gave her a reading lamp as a token of affection and good wishes. |
| 1st December 1882 |
Nearly all the children are quite laid up with bronchitis brought on by colds caught during the late cold winds. |