Mention is made in the first issue of “Phoenix” about the Staff of Drayton Manor in those early days (1930+). Among a host of unknown names one comes across three familiar ones in snippets from “Record”:

“In 1932, we welcomed...Mr. Behmber and Mr. Wright.”
“In the room adjacent to that of the Headmaster, sits Miss Scott, who ably manipulates the typewriter and rotary duplication machine in her efforts to deal with all the secretarial work of the school.”


“The growth of the school has been accompanied by several minor changes. The boys’ caps have been altered and are still on probation. For the girls, a summer frock has been introduced.”

“It is pleasing to record that the children’s appreciation of their good fortune in being members of such a modern and happy school has found willing expres­sion in gifts to the Charity Fund. These gifts are but a halfpenny per child each week, but already eight guineas have been sent to the Mayor’s Fund for the Local Unemployed, and five guineas to the London Orphan School, in which the school holds a life vote.”

“In 1932, we held our first Sports, and introduced the grade system, under which every boy or girl could obtain some points for his or her house. Both in that year and this (1933), exceptionally good weather blessed our Sports Day, when the finals of both boys’ and girls’ events were staged, and on each occasion a good crowd of parents of the children and friends of the school, saw some very keen competition.”