This imaginative display made full use of lots of props associated with schooling 

Courtesy of Tony Stokes

According to The White’s Directory of 1844 the following were the arrangements for schooling the village children.
“In 1677 Thomas Reade left £50 for schooling poor children, and it was laid out with £10 given by Sir C. C. Reade, in the purchase of 4½A. of land in Stanton, let for £6, which with the annuity of £25 from the Towne Estate, is paid to two schoolmistresses, for teaching about 70 children to read, and the girls to sew. Another Free-School, for 24 poor children, is supported by Mrs. Adams the Rectors wife

Academies       
Susan Addison
Mary Browning
Ann Simpson.”

In 1842 the Meeting House was let out as a schoolroom at a rental of £3 per annum. The Society of Friends, who continued to own the building, applied the conditions that the doctrines of the Church of England were not to be enforced on the children of dissenting parents, and that the burial ground was not to be used as a playground.

Bardwell Church of England Voluntary Controlled School

Courtesy of Bardwell School

The mother of the Rev. Arthur Dunlap had realised that there was a need for a school for the poor children and put aside part of her income for provision of such. When she died she bequeathed this money towards the building of a school building which was made possible because of additional funds supplied by the Rev. Dunlap, the gift of one acre of land by Sir Henry Charles Blake of Groton House, near Boxford who was one of the Lords of the Manor and also by the voluntary carting of materials worth £60 by the farmers.

The first stone was laid by the Rev. Dunlap at the S.W. corner of the porch on 31st May 1855 and the whole building was completed and fit (both Schools and Master's House) for occupation on the 29th September 1855 when the school was officially opened following a special Service in the church. The schools were in the Tudor style of architecture designed by Mr. Thos. Farrow and comprised of Boys and Girls Infant Schools and a dwelling house for the master and mistress.

Both buildings were built of black flint, with Caen stone dressings, and the entrance in front is surmounted by a bell turret. There have been several extensions to the original building during the 20th and  21st centuries. Both the school and the house are Grade II Listed.

These words can be seen on a plaque in what is now the School Hall.