sentences:  The school saw 1,394 students cross its threshold with the students first entering the school when they were 2 years old and leaving when they were 12 years of age.During World War One and World War Two the school did its best to chip in and support the war efforts.In 1914-1918 the students collected 250 lbs of blackberries to add to the rations, In 1940 the school was pushed to max capacity as evacuees flooded the countryside from the cities currently under siege from the Luftwaffe and in 1948 the school was taken over by the Hertfordshire County Council from the Church of England and in 1956 School lunches were discontinued making the school into one of the very few in which students went home for lunch.