Pupils at Peers School set up a shop called Bits ‘n’ Bobs selling stationery, gifts and soft toys as part of their studies in 1988 and Sainsbury’s supermarket at Heyford Hill gave them a cash till.
Customer service manager Dot Horne is seen in the top picture explaining how the till worked.
Children at Lawn Upton School were studying the history of America in 1986 and celebrated American Thanksgiving Day with pumpkin pie. All set for a delicious first taste in the middle picture are, left to right, John Paul, Aaron Herbert, Lee Westlake, Matthew Foster, Lee Jewell, Gwyn Davies and Maxine Ray.
Pupils at Speedwell School were keen to get to school in 1971 to check the progress of a clutch of Chinese pheasant chicks hatched in a classroom incubator. Saskia Brown and Paul Titcombe, both seven, admire three of the early arrivals in the bottom picture.
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