In July 1926, a special meeting of ratepayers was held and plans were made for the building of a new school house. 1927 saw a new school built on property purchased from Mrs. Elizabeth Bryenton, on the east side of the Brackley Point Road. Joe Matthews and his sons dug the cellar (25 x 35) with a horse scoop for $35. Rough lumber was $12 thousand. The cOn.— tractor’s bid was either $439 or $459 for the labor, and the entire building cost was under $2,000.

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(Left to Right)

Front row: Noreen Newson, Ella Newell, Sydney Stead, Alton Horne, Ross Carr.

Second row: Jim Newei‘l, Howard Stewart, Alta Prowse, Doris Bryenton, Helen Carr, Sterling Stead.

Back row: Wallace Stead, Ethel Bryenton, Ena MacLeod, Jean MacLeod, Edward Younker.

There were some advantages in the one—room school. There had to be some doubling up of pupils who were approximately the same level in subiect matter (sounds like the modern ungraded curriculum). Then too, there was considerable learning from other students.

The one—room school building was found to be inadequate to ac- commodate the larger number of scholars in the district. Consequently, in 1961, an additional room was added.

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