During 2025, Charles Williams Church in Wales Primary School's Year 4 pupils collected the memories of previous pupils to celebrate the school's 300th anniversary, supported through a National Lottery Heritage Funded project, Our School, Roots to Heritage. Corinne Mabley, an ex-pupil, shared her memories during a whole class oral history interview.

Corinne attended the school as a pupil from 1937. She recalled her favourite subject as English and least favourite as arithmetics. She remembered her favourite teacher, Miss Stallard. Corinne attended school during the Second World War and remembered carrying a gas mask to school. She recalls the absence of male teachers, probably in part due to the conflict and men in service, fighting in the allied forces.

When Corinne and her younger sister, Rosalie Davies, were in school there was no Caerleon Comprehensive School. The pupils were all taught on the same site until they were aged 14, when compulsory (5 to 14 years of age) school education ended. This changed in 1947, when the 1944 Education Act legislation began to be applied and young people remained in compulsory education until the age of 15.