This section on the school field describes the necessity of training the boys in tractor driving. Having consulted the School Authorities, it was agreed that the training could be conducted on the field and that instructors could, in fact, be instructresses—four female undergraduates of Oxford University.
On a similar theme, this section on Upper School Teaching Staff, 1939 – 1945, describes the appointment of the First Female Teachers; it was many decades after the end of the war before a further appointment!
‘There were many changes during the war, including the appointment of four female teachers to the Upper School for the very first time. The paragraph on staff states that ‘To settle down quickly in a new school cannot be easy for any man, and the prospect may well have been an unnerving one for the first woman ever to occupy a teaching post in the Upper School. But how different the event! Of the four Mistresses who presided in the course of the war over the Classical, Historical and Biological Sixths, none, we believe, will regret her experience here, and we remember all of them with pleasure and with gratitude.’