FORMER pupils of Fairfield Primary returned to the classroom for a tough history test.

Old boys and girls were invited back to the school for a series of 50th anniversary celebrations.

A quiz was held for the returning visitors to earn merit marks using their knowledge about the 1950s.

The passing of time was also marked in an assembly for each present-day class to remember a particular year in the past half-century.

Old class photographs were put on display and, in a move to look to the future, a modern teaching room was opened by Mrs Joan Riggs, the second pupil through the door when the school originally opened.

The headteacher, Chris Ashley, said: "It was a great chance for old friends to meet and talk, and for people to look around the building.

The school's first headmaster, Harold Chantler, had been due to visit for the first time since his retirement in the late 1970s. Unfortunateley Mr Chantler passed away only weeks earlier.