speak. At Home to the parish. Variety was the keynote of their efforts at entertainment and exhibition. Indoors, there was acting by the infants and singing by the juniors, and all around the walls the themes and examples of the term's work - plaster models, aprons, photographs and tentative, colourful paintings, not forgetting ever the hamster in his cage. Outside in the sunshine on the lawn we were offered music and mime by all ages and later the traditional and pleasing spectacle of country dancing by the Juniors - the whole a credit to the Headmaster and his staff, and to Miss Gloyn (of the English Folk Dance Society), who throughout term directed the tuition and practice of the dancing.

Then on the Wednesday evening came what was perhaps the climax of the Summer Term the Leavers' Service, Choral Evensong in the Parish Church; with parents and friends supporting them by their presence and prayers, and the School choir leading the worship, often unaccompanied and rising to a setting for the Magnificat. But there was more to it than that; there were history and tradition in that Evensong - Mary Gibbon speaking through her Will of 1678. Such a moment was when the eight leavers, individually and then altogether, read the Beatitudes from St. Matthew's Gospel; and then again when later each received a copy of the Bible at the altar rail. Somehow the red furnishings for the Festival of St. James and the special floral arrangements (one of them in the Spanish colours, to mark St. James' associations with Spain) gave a final touch to the occasion and atmosphere.

J.H.G-W.G.

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Young Wives' Fellowship

Please book Tuesday, 17th September - our first meeting of the new season. Instead of speaking to us the Vicar has arranged an evening expedition by car to Romney Marsh. It will take the form of a visit to the Town Hall of New Romney and also to the fine Norman Parish Church, followed by supper in the town. It is hoped that Miss Anne Roper (well-known lecturer on Romney Marsh) will be able to meet us and talk to us about these two buildings and their links with the history of this ancient Cinque Port borough. Probable start will be 5.45 p.m. and I would be grateful to have names, please, as soon as possible of those interested.

D.B.