By the end of the autumn term, Highdon felt very different to the frightened place Andrew Collins had first...
The autumn term was drawing to its close, and a sharp frost covered the playing fields each morning. The...
By the beginning of November, a cold mist settled over the Sussex countryside each morning, wrapping Highdon School in...
The last week of October brought with it crisp mornings, drifting leaves and the unmistakable feeling that winter was...
Monday morning arrived beneath low grey clouds that drifted across the Sussex hills. The great bell rang promptly at...
By Sunday afternoon, the discovery beneath the old cedar tree had become the greatest secret in Ash House. David,...
By the middle of the autumn term, every boy at Highdon knew that the most important room in the...
Miss Blyton’s eyes rested briefly upon the iron ring before returning to the boys. “So,” she said with a...
The autumn term had barely begun when the newest boys arrived at Highdon School. Suitcases of every shape and...
Few places in England during the early 1970s seemed quite as separate from the outside world as Highdon School...
The most serious punishments at St Bartholomew’s School took place in the study of the headmistress, Miss Beatrice Blyton....
The school’s approach to teaching was simple, orderly and entirely without fuss. Lessons were carefully explained by the mistress...