The Chalet School and the Island
School Facts:
Headmistress: Miss Annersley and Miss Wilson are co-heads
The School is in The Big House on St Briavel's.
Series Character Whereabouts:
Jo Maynard - living in Howells' village, but visits the School for several weeks
Len Maynard - 8, currently a member of the Chalet School Kindergarten
Con Maynard - 8, currently a member of the Chalet School Kindergarten
Margot Maynard - 8, living in Canada with the Russells
Mary-Lou Trelawney - 11, Lower IIIb
Julie Lucy - Middle
Peggy Bettany - Senior
Bride Bettany - Lower Va, Prefect for St Therese's
Daisy Venables - working in a big London hospital
The Maynard's decide to send Margot to Canada with Madge in the hope that it may help the little girls health. Len and Con are to remain with the Chalet School. Flora and Fiona McDonald will also travel with the Russell family and be reunited with their sister and her new family.
On a trip to Carnbach, Lower Va meet Cherry Christy and Kester Bellever, the warden of a sea-bird sanctuary on a near-by island and are fascinate by them both. Annis rescues one of Cherry's crutches and is cheered up as a result. When she returns to school, she apologises and her isolation is ended. Lower IIIb have a stand-up fight which surprises everyone and Joey visits, bringing five boats with her. Joey also manages to help Cherry to see that the Chalet School is not such a bad place.
Annis once again stirs up trouble when she runs away after an infuriating letter from her aunt. On the night of the school Regatta, she takes one of the school boats and finds herself lost and unable to control the boat. She is pulled to a rocky area and jumps out, injuring her ankle. With the tide coming in, she is forced to climb a cliff after which she is discovered by Kester Bellever and Cherry. Feeling very ashamed of herself, Annis is returned to the school, to find that they are more angry with her aunt than with her herself. She is also given the news that her father, supposed dead, is alive and returning to Britain.
During the summer holidays, Joey and family spend some time at a guesthouse in Cornwall where both she and Annis' father give Aunt Margaret a piece of their mind!
Old Girls
Grizel Cochrane - Music Mistress
Ivy Norman - returns to teach at the school after an absence of 5 years
Gillian Linton - Old Girl, Mistress, leaving to be married
Mary Burnett - Old Girl, Mistress, leaving to be married
Joyce Linton - married with two children, Frank (5) and Jocelyn (6)
Luigia di Ferrara - a nun, died in a concentration camp
contributed by Lorraine O'Donnell, Sligo, Ireland__ working from a paperback edition