The backyard at School House, Birch. Betty Millatt with Peter on her knee. Anne Millatt on the right. The seat was one of a number that had come from the church when changes were made by the font in the early 1950s.

Home life was often integrated with the school. If children at school were ill, they would come to the house. Betty worked for a while in the office at the School. On a Friday afternoon, she would put the dinner money takings in a shopping bag and take them on Osborne's bus to Colchester to pay into the bank.