No complications when Northam pets go to school

Children at Northam County Primary school drew lots last week to prevent a fight – a dog fight in fact!

The children were invited to take their pets to school, the visit to coincide with the launching of a branch of the Panda Club – a junior section of the World Wild Life Youth Service – at the school.

But amongst the cats, kittens, tortoises, white mice, guinea pigs and cage-birds there was only one lone dog – a white poodle. The headmistress, Mrs M.A. Crombie explained: ‘We decided to have just one dog so that we wouldn’t have any fights in school. The children with pet dogs drew lots.’

Gazette article 9 October 1964