Children’s book for India filmed for TV

There was an air of subdued excitement about Woolsery on Monday, and especially at the village school where the 53 pupils between the ages of five and eleven knew that something special was about to happen.
And about noon, the man with the camera arrived.
He had come to film a special activity at the school intended for inclusion in a Children’s Newsreel programme of the BBC.
Children in a remote village in India will soon be learning about life in a typical English village – in particular a village in North Devon – about life in Britain generally. And their teachers will be the children of Woolsery school.
Mr C B Griffiths, headmaster of Woolsery School for the past 22 years, found his pupils immediately enthusiastic when he suggested that they should prepare a book, telling of many aspects of life in this country to be sent to Khammamet, Andhra Pradesh, India. There the Rev Erick Lott, younger son of Mr and Mrs Walter Lott, of Springfield, Woolsery, formerly of Lane Barton Farm, and himself a former scholar of Woolsery school, is entering upon his chosen life as a missionary.
After attending Woolsery School the Rev Eric Lott went to Shebbear College and then farmed at home until called to the Methodist Church.
His brother, Mr Gordon Lott, is taking over Lane Barton Farm. There are two sisters, both in nursing: Miss Christine Lott, who is at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, and Miss Connie Lott, who is at a nursery training college at Tunbridge Wells.
In the near future Mr and Mrs Walter Lott are leaving Woolsery to live in semi-retirement at Bude.

The full Gazette article is dated 1 July 1960