Cwmdeuddwr National School 5
Distractions
Sometimes the children were simply absent from school because some opportunity for an experience out of the ordinary had proved too much of a distraction. In cottages and farms there was not much in the way of modern entertainment for youngsters. Fairs and feasts and festivals were eagerly seized on.
School
Log Book
This enrty from June 1888 records what must have been a great
attraction.
"School closed this afternoon; a circus in town. Edith
Powles absent from school. This girl has bad eyes. William Pugh
Standard I is very backward in his work"
In the instance below (from the same month) one can imagine the boys in particular being interested.
County Archives
R/E/PS/9/L/1
In the above case the event is a gentry wedding, the Lewis
Lloyds of Nantgwyllt being a major landowning family and the
employer of many of the school's parents
"Poor attendance in the morning - a number of children
away in order to witness the wedding of Miss Lloyd of Nantgwillt
- a holiday in the afternoon."
A special treat
Although the teacher's irritation can be felt in some
of these entries, there are times when the school closes in order
to give the children a rare treat, as in this next entry from
1888.
"A party of ladies & gentlemen from Llandrindod entertained the children on the Groe, a holiday given in consequence."
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