The centenary year of St John's Primary School, Wallingford is celebrated in this collection of words, pictures and memories from the children, former pupils and staff, parents and members of the local community.

The book records the enormous changes that have taken place in a small market town over the last one hundred years, highlighting the activities, celebrations and achievements of an Oxfordshire primary school.
Lessons, games, school trips, discipline, uniform, wartime and age-old jokes and riddles are just some of the subjects that are touched upon in the book.

About the Author & Contributors

• Emma Anderson is a freelance publisher and her three children have all been to St John's.

• Anabel Bowen is a graphic designer and her son left St John's in 2009.

• Judith Brotherton has a daughter at the school, works part time at the school and is a member of the PTA.

• Jenny Forder has been Headteacher of St John's School since September 2000.

• Mike Organ is a web developer who attended St John's from 1977 and currently has three daughters at the school.

• Viv Roberts attended St John's School, junior section, between 1975 and 1979.

• Claire Satchwell attended St John's School in the early 1980s. She now has two children at the school.

• Tracey Wernham Clark whose three children, husband, father and grandfather all attend(ed) St John's!

The book is available to purchase at all of our Centenary events for £5.
It is also available from the Walllingford Bookshop, Amazon and Wallingford Museum.