Castlehill School Log Book p. 253

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Item no

21049

Title

Castlehill School Log Book p. 253

Description

A page in the Castlehill School Log Book giving entries for September 1940. The notes describe children being enrolled at the school and an air raid practice taking place.

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Unknown

Date

1940

Type

Document

Location

Edinburgh City Archives

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This is an excerpt:
Twenty beginners were enrolled.
32 pupils were transferred to Secondary School.
Roll is now 273.

9.9.40 Miss C, Music Teacher, reported.
She will come on alternated Monday afternoons.

Air Raid Shelter Practice held today.

11.9.40 Dr A visited School this afternoon and examined the newly enrolled children. 24 children were examined.

13.9.40 Three additional beginners enrolled during the week.

30,000 children and some mothers were evacuated out of Edinburgh and away from the bombing raids. They were sent on trains all over Scotland to Banffshire, Berwickshire, Clackmannanshire, Fife, Moray, Nairn, Peebleshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, East and West Lothian. For many of the city's children it was the first time they had ever been to the countryside. For some it was a happy experience, but others were very homesick. Many children returned to the cities after the first few months of war because the conflict had yet to reach the home front and their families no longer feared the threat from this so-called "Phoney War".

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