From The Parish Magazine, August 1901:
The School, Upton Scudamore
The Diocesan Written Examination in Holy Scripture has produced a very satisfactory list. Seventeen children were sent in. Of these, Evelyn Wiltshire, Edith Bond, Arthur Cox, Arthur Saye, and Florence Dunford were placed in the first class, and the Bishop’s examiners have awarded prizes of the following value to four of them: Edith Bond, 5s.; Evelyn Wiltshire and Arthur Cox, 5s. 6d.; Arthur Saye, 2s. 6d. Second Class – Annie Rose, Daisy Greenland, Madeline Jones, Annie Westrupp, Winnie Brown, Anthony Bumstead, Bertie Blake. Pass – Mary Maggs, Alice Dunford, Ethel Cox. Bertha Brown, who was examined as a pupil teacher, has been placed in the first class and gained a prize of 10s. The teachers and children alike deserve to be congratulated on so good a list. But the secret of success is in great part due to the good attendance during the past month. Of forty children on the books sixteen have made full attendance and eighteen more than ninety per cent.
Full attendances – Arthur Cox, Stanley Jones, Bertie Blake, Arthur Say, John Greenland, Joshua Blake, John Hinton, James Bumstead, Willie Hinton, Annie Westrupp, Edith Bond, Madeline Jones, Florence Blake, Mary Batchelor, Eva Greenland, Dora Bumstead.
Good attendances – Edwin Bumstead, Wilfred Jones, Roger Thorp, Frederick Barnes, Leonard Thorp, William Blake, Sidney Sainsbury, Horace Ingram, Frank Maggs, Winifred Brown, Annie Rose, Ethel Cox, Beatrice Porter, Bessie Cox, Maud Porter, Ethel Blake, Lily Elton, Mary Maggs.
Annie Westrupp is entitled to a medal for four quarters’ full attendance.
The children in the upper school were taken by the Rector to see Sanger’s Circus as little reward for their good attendance and conduct in school.
The holidays have begun, and the school will meet again on Monday, September 9th. There will be no afternoon Sunday School during the holidays. The Sunday School treat will be given later in August.      Â