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YOUNG ELTHAM
by John Webb
children, represents history.
The reception class visited
the London Eye as a
symbol of that decade.
Showing the evolution
in vehicular form, one
day saw Enid Blyton’s old
car, 1950s Routemaster
double-decker bus used in
the Festival of Britain and a
1940s police car parked up
Children 
from St
in the playground.
Thomas More
the
primary school have been rolling back
The focus on the development of
building can
the decades this month as the school
history mirrors the progression of
now accommodate 210
celebrates its 80th anniversary.
the school itself which began life in
children.
November 1929 as a community centre,
The celebrations have also seen the
then Sunday School for the overspill
As a culmination of the celebrations,
official opening of recently completed
population from the expanding estates
a special assembly saw each class
expansions to the confined Appleton
in the area, becoming a school five
in period costume sharing their
Road site, with a purpose built ICT
years later.
experiences from history.
resource centre and more spacious staff
accommodation.
Originally ‘the Blessed’ until Thomas
Mr Finlay said: “It has brought history
More’s canonisation in 1935, the school’s
to life for the children and made us
Each year group has based their term’s
name was chosen because of the More
appreciate the development of our
project work on a decade of the school’s
family’s Tudor connections with Well
school through the decades.”
past, right up to the 1990s which, for the
Hall and this year Shield Garden in the
younger
Pleasaunce was planted up in the
school’s honour.
“Each headteacher over the
decades has left a legacy
of development”, said the
incumbent since 1998, Peter
Finlay.
His predecessors have executed
expansions, including a top storey, a
new wing and larger play area so that
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