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The school has many societies covering a very wide range of interests. In these societies the pupils are able to extend their interests in their favourite subjects under the expert and enthusiastic guidance of the staff. A special feature is the School Council, consisting of the staff and prefects, who are elected by staff and sixth year pupils. New entrants receive a pamphlet describing this and other aspects of school life.
The goal of a grammar school should be academic success and we could produce a long list of those who have won great success at the University, but it would be invidious to single out few from so many. Organised games play a large part in the life of the school and many successes have been gained in this field too. In individual sportsmen and sportswomen our school has an outstanding record in producing three Olympic athletes, Lorna Frampton (Swimming 1936)and Sylvia Cheeseman and Doris Batter who both ran in the 1948 Olympic Games; Dorothy Saunders was a member of the English team in the Empire Games in Sydney in 1930.
When pupils leave Spring Grove they go into all walks of life and all parts of the world. But they are all linked, all who wish to be, by the Old Spring Grovian (sic) Association - the link between the past and present generations at Spring Grove.
For many years the staff and pupils have been awaiting the erection of a new school building; although the present one (condemned in 1935!) may be called unusual and picturesque, situated in undeniably pleasant grounds, it is not suitable for use as a school, despite various modifications, such as the building of a canteen, where the pupils now dine instead of in the basement, and a small school library and new Domestic Science Department replacing the caretaker's original quarters. 1957, however, actually saw the begining (sic) of a new school building near the Great West Road. Generations of Old Spring Grovians, some of whose children are now pupils, together with the many staff who have loved "the old place" while recognising its deficiencies, will hope that the new Spring Grove at Lampton will carry on the best traditions and make still better citizens. |
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Spring Grove Grammar School moved out of the old school building at Isleworth and into this new school built in 1959 at Lampton |