The School This, our Tenth Anniversary, seems an appropriate time for a short note to be written about the School. We opened our doors to the pupils of this neighbourhood on the 18th October, 1939: its real origin dates back to 1936 when the Governors of the then Ealing Secondary Schools saw the rapid growth of Greenford and Northolt area which had taken place in the early nineteen-thirties. 140 pupils and 6 staff in 1939: in 1949 600 pupils and 31 staff, and with that development in size a corresponding effort in obtaining apparatus, books and all the other equipment necessary to the smooth running of a school of this type. Among our difficulties have been shortages of staff, time spent in air raid shelters, the splitting of the School into two parts by evacuation in October 1940, to be fused again in September 1941. So, small wonder that after ten years existence we still find ourselves without some pieces of equipment which are taken for granted in older schools where members of tbe staff have served. Yet we have grown and developed in spite of material disadvantages- The spirit of community and service so well marked in the grammar school tradition of this Country shows itself here. Activities of all types flourish, particularly our Choral and Dramatic Societies. Dramatic productions originated with the evacuated portion in Torquay where the greater quiet of the winter of 1940/41 gave opportunities denied to those of us who remained in Greenford. Our pupils have been into all parts of the world with the armed forces; we have pupils at the Universities and Training Colleges, in the Medical and Dental Schoolsin fact they are now entering all walks of life. In the troubled times through which we have passed I think it true to say that the School has been a stabilising influence in the lives of its pupils. I think we may look back with satisfaction on the amount of our task so far accomplished and we may look forward, I hope, to reasonably stable conditions under which to experiment and find our solution to the problems presented to us by the present rapidly changing educational system. The Headmaster. GREENFORD COUNTY GRAMMAR SCHOOL SEPTEMBER, 19391949 to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the (School we present A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Given in the SCHOOL HALL at 7 p.m. on DECEMBER 6th, 7th, 9th and 10th 1949 Souvenir Programme = = Sixpence