The school did not acquire a secondary school until after the new building was erected. The monitress was no longer to be seen in the school so there was a problem as to what to do with the older girls. There was only one Secondary School in town in the thirties and that was Loreto. A "Baby Room" had been built on to the school in the nineteen twenties. This meant that most children were in Infants for three years. Many "stayed back" or repeated Classes. Still when they reached sixth class many were only twelve or thirteen years of age.
Some left as soon as they were fourteen or sooner if they could get jobs. However, some parents felt their children were too young to go to work and so seventh and eighth classes were formed. Here the girls learned shorthand, typing and book—keeping. Sr. Teresa Carmel was in charge of this. The classes got smaller as the girls got older. Fr. Cardiff the school chaplain, called them "the pensioners".
These classes were held in a small room upstairs and the typing took place in the galvanized lunch room out at the back of the school. It was these classes that took part in the first plain chant festival. Sr. Columbanus O'Farrell returned to the school in the late 1930's. She had the idea of teaching French to these classes for a while too. Some of the girls sat civil service exams or typing or shorthand exams. Eventually everybody got some sort of job at the end of it all.
