 Elstow's school's May Festival was performed on the first Thursday in May, at 3pm for the benefit of for retired people and housewives and again at 6pm for those who had been at work or school during the day.Each year, the May Queen was selected by the girls in the school's top year.They were not always Elstow village girls, as the school also served the Cosmic Avenue and Ampthill Road areas of Bedford, as well as the villages of Cople, Cotton End, Haynes, Harrowden, Willington and Wilstead.