The Outbreak of War

Following the outbreak of war, the school was evacuated firstly to the Moffat Hydro Hotel in Scotland and then moved to The Hayes at Swanwick in Derbyshire.
After the war when the school had returned to Southwold, a small branch of the school was established at Penmaenmawr in North Wales; some parents were still worried about zeppelin raids along the east coast and thought their daughters would be safer in North Wales.