The end
of June 1956 is a very busy time in Alice’s life, not only does she have
revision for the looming exams but has teaching practice write-ups to
complete. Repeat school visits in
Hertfordshire are also on the cards to look at schools selected for their
architecture and good results.
The
Demonstration appears to be an important event in the college year, Alice is
attending practices and is involved in scene shifting, dress changes, policemen
(sic) and waitressing; although it appears that the 2nd & 3rd
years will be actually putting on the demonstration. The annual church fete is also on the
calendar and the 1st years are in charge of running this.
The 4th
July is the Inter Year Athletics meeting which Alice is training daily for and
complains she is in the 800 yards this year which means extra training as she
has further to run. There is also a 3rd year sale on the same day
where she plans to buy items cheaper in preparation for next year.
A visit
to Mullion Camp in Cornwall is also looming large as Alice requests some extra
items to take with her and reminds her parents the fees are now due for it.
A
surprising element to Alice’s teacher training is a visit to Cambridge for
dissections which she states: ‘not a
particularly enjoyable day but very interesting’
The
final part of Alice’s letter home tells of spending Sunday ‘stitching and
tailoring for a 3rd year’, in preparation for the Demonstration, a
sewing machine was borrowed from the vicar to help with this and Alice was very
pleased with the results.
The final paragraph
tells of her getting her hair cut by another 1st year student who
did well but ‘cut off so much we had to find a carpet sweeper to clean up the
mess.’
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| Making alterations for Demonstration Day, 1933 |
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| Demonstration Day Programme, 1956 |
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| Dance Demonstration performed by senior students, c.1942-1945 |
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