Highland Folk Museum - 25

Here is another view of the classroom.



The school day in 1937 was as follows:

9.00 - 9.45 Morning Prayers, Registration, Bible Study

9.45 - 10.00 Homework checking

10.00 - 11.00 Arithmetic including Multiplication Tables

11.00 - 11.20 Morning Interval/Playtime

11.20 - 11.30 Multiplication Table and Mental Arithmetic Test

11.30 - 12.30 English Grammar and Composition

12.30 - 1.30 Lunch

1.30 - 1.45 Spelling

1.45 - 2.15 Handwriting

2.15 - 3.15 Geography, History, Art, Music, Nature Study

3.15 - 3.45 Reading

3.45 - 4.00 Setting of Homework etc

4.00 End of School

At some point during the day there would have been a short period of Physical Education (PE) either inside or in the playground.

Those boys and girls who worked really hard at their lessons may have been fortunate enough to go to Inverness College where they would have been privileged to meet the Most Innovative Lecturer in the whole of the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI).