I cant really be bothered now as I'm not too well but I shall endevour to answer your questions.I belive school was to start next day,after the monthly holiday.It remained closed for a while till things were sorted.much to our delight.A few months later the schools were closed again due to bomb damage & householders were talked into taking about a dozen of us in complete with a school teacher for a few days a week.As you can imagine the householders got a bit fed up with this & closed their doors.Thats the sort on off education I got.{does it show}.Qestion 2.First we were told the Germans could not get past the French Maginot line,but when France fell nobody seemed to worried outwardly,& we thought the americans would help. the news on the radio was as far as I new was bang up to date accurate & truthful. We did not miss certain food at all infact Spam,dried eggs,dried milk etc from america was quite a novelty Butter & sugar was perhaps mot missed. More later