We used to have Canon Hilliard from Wickmere come and take the scripture exams, cause this was a church school... he was ever such a smart gentleman, he used to wear a pair of pince-nez glasses and he used to knock... and open the door and walk in and say, "Good morning, children," and we used to have to stand up and say "Good mornng, Sir." Then he used to say, "I'm very pleased to see the little girls in clean pinafores and the little boys in white collars... Sit. And now we'll have the Catechism." and he'd point to this one or that one. "What is your name?" Then you'd start off with the Catechism. And he'd point to one boy, one day, "What is your name, boy?" "Please sir, I mustn't say the Catechism." "And why not?" "Because we're Weslyans." "Well then get outside in the porch and stay there!"
Ruth Harrison

I discovered, looking at the 1911 census, that my great aunt, Mrs. Edith Florence Millington (née Woodward) was teaching at Itteringham School.  (Her husband appears to have been in Australia!)  I was amazed to find her in Norfolk, since she spent her earlier life in Oxfordshire and Surrey.  She then went to Australia working as a nanny for the Colman (mustard) family, and later, after her husband died, joined her sisters and mother in emigrating to Canada.  Coincidentally, I too was a teacher in Norfolk - Martham, and Belton, but I never knew Grandfather's sister was also a teacher, until reading it in the census.  I then visited Itteringham and later found your super website. I don't know when she started work at Itteringham.  By around 1914 she had joined her husband in Australia.
Hilary Woodward - 19th March 2009

I don't remember (the building) as a school, but I have other memories. I was at school (not this one!) with John Sutcliffe, who owned the property in the seventies. He then sold it to my cousin, Karin Warming, who lived there until her death in 1996. I gather that she left the property to Julie Bland, who I never met. I don't know if anyone in Itteringham remembers Karin, but she was active in the village, not least at the church. Through her I got to know the Barker and the Savage families.
Incidentally, I was interested to see the football team. There was also an old photograph in the Walpole Arms of Itteringham United football club. How things have changed!
Bill Tegner - 16th October 2022

It isn't known if there was any formal schooling in the village before 1846 but a Thomas Robins, schoolmaster, was a tenant of a cottage (not far from the blacksmith's) in 1816.

Frances Rudd appears in the 1881 census aged 59 as a dress maker, presumably retired from teaching by then. The 1891 census shows her aged 69 and living by her own means with a 9 year old lodger, Hope Goodwin.