Edna Hicks followed her older sister, Ivy, into a teaching career, and later taught at Woolaston Primary School rising to the posItion of Deputy Head. Here Edna describes placements on her teacher training at Stockwell, London in 1937 and the basis on which teachers were allocated to schools - and the relative levels of remuneration.
After her parents retired to Woolaston (where her mother grew up) Edna was offered a job at Woolaston Primary School. Here she describes how she negotiated the terms of the job, her first year of teaching there in 1946, and the impact of her grandfather's picture on the wall as founder of the school.
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Sheila Llewellyn taught in Birmingham and Gloucester before returning to the Forest, remaining at Walmore Hill School until her retirement. The process of getting a job involved interviews by school governors. In the early 1960s competition for jobs was not always a level playing field as Sheila explains, and describes what “Forest Governors used to be like….”
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