Mexborough and Swinton Times, February 26, 1937

New Head Teacher of Great Houghton Council School

Mr Isaac Sanders, Head Teacher of Normanton Woodhouse Council School (mixed department), has been appointed Head Teacher of Great Houghton Council School in succession to Mr TH Bollen recently appointed head of the Hill Senior Boys School, Thurnscoe.

The change of master’s takes effect at the beginning of April, Mr Sanders visited his new school a few days ago.

Mr Sanders, who is 47 years of age, is an old boy of Normanton’s Grammar School, whence he proceeded to Hull Municipal Training College, being one of the first students to enter that college when it was opened 1913.

On leaving college he joined the forces from 1915 to 19 in the Mechanical Transport Corps. His first school was at Castleford, where he was appointed uncertified assistant, and later he became assistant master at Castleford Boys School.

His first headship was at Holmfirth Mixed School and he has held the ship of his present school, Normanton Woodhouse Council for seven and half years.

He has also taken keen interest in evening school work, as head of Pontefract Road Evening School, Castleford, and later as head of Scholes Evening School.

Ms Sanders is keenly interest in rugby and cricket, but his greatest interest is bound up in the welfare of children both in and out of school. He likes to arrange games and sports and to form cycling and rambling clubs. At his instigation the first school camp at Castleford Pontefract Road School, was organised in 1922 and there has been one yearly ever since.

His chief hobbies are gardening and motoring. Mr and Mrs Sanders have two sons, aged 15 and 11, the former attends Castleford Grammar School.