This week at Hymers we celebrate Founder's and Benefactors' Day and it gave us the perfect opportunity to talk to our Junior School about our School history. Stepping into a room full of 7-8 year olds to talk about a school’s 133-year history is guaranteed to bring you right down to earth in the sweetest way. Armed with framed black-and-white photos, heavy leather logbooks from the 1880s, and an old woolen blazer laid out next to today’s school sweatshirt, "Is this older than you? "Is it older than dinosaurs?" "Is my Dad in that picture?"

They huddled around the old ledgers, gasping at the faded ink was wonderful watching them trace the crest on their own jumpers and realise it was the exact same one on a uniform worn over a century ago. Dozens of little fingers pressed against the 1935 class photo, eagerly looking for a familiar nose or a family smile among the sepia faces. Yet, out of everything, the Victorian rules, the heavy ledgers, and the "ancient" 80s computers, the stories they fell in love with most were about the old boys. Their eyes went wide hearing about the gentlemen in their  nineties who still come back to visit. They were completely enchanted by the image of elderly gents walking down these exact same halls, pointing out where their desks used to sit. To a seven-year-old, 133 years is an impossible number to wrap your head around.

But realising they're part of the very same story, sharing the same halls, the same school houses, the same crest, and the same childhood magic was priceless!