While the younger children in this lively film are vigilantly corralled by their schoolmistresses, the older boys get special dispensation to react freely to Mitchell & Kenyon's cameras. As so often in these films, the action is partly staged. The schoolchildren's neat and healthy appearance is in contrast to the often visible poverty of the workers in many of the filmmakers' factory films.

Schoolchildren were a popular subject for Mitchell and Kenyon, who knew that their appearance in the films would encourage family members and friends to attend the local screenings.

Source: BFI

Main (replacement) title (00.06). Large rows and columns of young schoolchildren, boys and girls, move forward in groups or `batches' from the arched gate of St Ignatius' Roman Catholic Primary School, Preston, in the background towards the camera. Schoolmistresses and priests marshall the children from the sides of the columns (2.11mins). (Shotlist) Hoards of schoolchildren stream out of St Ignatius' Roman Catholic Primary School in Preston, Lancashire.

Source: BFI