Ysgol Maelgwn Trips and holidays
Ysgol Maelgwn - Trips and holidays
The school closed when local Sunday schools held their summer trips, and in April 1910 for the Wesleyan Festival in Conwy. The school closed for a day or half-day on St David’s Day each year. The children had a day off every May for the Llandudno May Day procession and every October for Harvest Thanksgiving.
Children also had time off to celebrate royal events. In June 1911 the school was closed for a week to commemorate King George V’s coronation. Each child received “a medal, a flag, a mug, tea and an orange”. Sports were held in an adjoining field, followed by fireworks. A month later there was a school holiday “on account of the Investiture of the Prince of Wales at Carnarvon”. On 16 July 1920 “the children were taken out to see the Royal Train going through from Holyhead to Denbigh where His Majesty is to open a Sanatorium this afternoon”.
In May 1935 the school closed to celebrate the king’s silver jubilee with a children’s tea party. The following day the school was closed again because the building had not been cleared after the party. In January 1936 the school held a memorial service for the king.
A half-day holiday was given in July 1934 for pupils to attend the Royal Welsh Show in Llandudno. The children had a tea party in 1938 given by the headmaster, ED Rowlands, to celebrate his appointment as mayor of Conwy.
School trips went to Marl Hall woods, Bryn Euryn and Rhos-on-Sea, the Royal Cambrian Academy in Plas Mawr (Conwy), Deganwy Castle, “Mynydd y Dre” (Conwy Mountain), the North Wales Weekly News printing works, and further afield to lakes in Snowdonia.
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