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Chronicles of Oakland Township, p. 226

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storage place for coal and wood. Stone, Durham Center and Harley were all one-room school while Scotland had several rooms. Debbie: Do you remember any the significant events that happened within Scotland school? Mrs. R: (tape is shut off, looking for notes) (then back on). On the last day before Christmas holidays we all assembled in the hall at Scotland School to sing Christ¬mas carols. The senior grades all stood on the stair¬ways and the smaller children down below and each teach¬er1 s class had aspocial number of their own to put on. During the later part of my teaching experience a day was set aside in Scotland School for games and sports and relays and it was about the last day in June. All the pupils in the whole school were divided up into teams and there wore captains who chose the teams. On each team there were children from the tiniest to the tall¬est. There were twelve teams divided up so that two teams went to the obstacle race to compete and two more to the broad jump and two more to the ball throw and so on. The winning team then went and picked out ano¬ther team to compete with at the came event and it was a progressive thing and at the end of the whole thing they went and they received trophies. Parent interview was another interesting thing. A certain night was set aside when the parents came to the classrooms whore their children attended and talked to the teacher. They discussed the report and looked at their note books and around the room at all the other work displayed for that occasion. They looked at the art work on the walls and the stories they had written and their finger pair, ting and box sculpture and every type of art you could think of. This was a great in¬centive for the teacher as well as the pupils. On Fridays in the winter the seniors sold hot dogs and chocolate milk in the hamm at noon-hour to raise money for bus trips. We practiced for months when I first came to Scot¬land for the music festival. Our class used to go to the music festival and play in the rhythm band and the choirs too. The centennial year was held in 1967 and during that whole year special sports programmes were initiated. The children ran races and did other sports such as broad jump. They won silver, gold or bronze medals. On a special evening the parents in the community were invited. The teachers and pupils were all dressed in their centennial dress or outfit. They put on a special programme right out in the front yard. Our class I remember sang in their little choir and Brian Amy played the violin and our rhythm band also played. The parents enjoyed this very, very much, (tape is shut off, looks for notes) (tape is turned back on)

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