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John Sadden

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Discovery Centre Books

Gosport Gardening

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Weather In Gosport

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Gosport Weather

Ella’s teacher collected coins, so she gave Ella a “Crown” coin dated 1891, for best girl in school.Miss. Johns gave her a Collins gem dictionary as a Scripture prize in 1924.

She also had 3 fiction book prizes:-

• 1. From the Band of Hope Union in 1927.
• 2. From the Headmistress, Miss. S.A. Johns, for Good Conduct, Industry and Progress, in 1927, and,
• 3. Awarded by the Mayor in 1928, when she was in Standard VIII(a).

It seems the only subject Ella did not like was Needlework (by hand) because the girls had to make shirts,  (Which were not very interesting!) – and they had to do gathering and “stroking”, which was very tiresome and fussy.

Only the few were capable of gaining prizes, certainly to the extent that Ella Smith did, but it is to be hoped that most of the pupils of St. John’s School gained in some way from their attendance there.  Some continued their studies elsewhere to gain qualifications which fitted them for their various careers.  Some became teachers, some worked in offices and of course, there must have been many more kinds of work which they did.  Some of the boys worked in Portsmouth Dockyard and probably in other similar establishments.  Whatever their job in life, hopefully, this school of St. John’s, Forton, was instrumental in helping them to come nearer to a knowledge of “the Way, the Truth and the Life”, so that they were (and are) able to live their lives in accordance with God’s will.