Our School Badge

Our school badge has a drum, a bugle and a bell on it.

school badge

The Drum and the Bugle
At six o'clock in the morning during winter and five o'clock for the rest of the year, somebody would beat the drum or blow the bugle. This would also be repeated at nine o'clock at night through the whole year. The drum would only be used if it was dry, and the bugle would be used if it were wet.

The drum and the bugle were used well into the 19th century, but then they were not used so often because clocks started to become more popular.


The Bell
In the olden days a hand held bell was used as they didn't have an electric one. It was used at school in the morning to tell the children to come in and for the end of the day to tell the children to go home.