Celebrating Church of England Schools

1. Celebrating Church of England Schools

2. Who started your school? Haughley, Crawford’s School – founded by William Crawford 1866

3. What is your school called? What do you know about its history?

4. What is happening here?

5. Joseph Lancaster Lancaster was a Christian, a member of the Society of Friends (a Quaker). In 1798 he opened a school in Borough Rd, Southwark. He said one school master could teach 1000 boys if he used ‘monitors’, older boys, to help teach younger ones. He offered education for free but said "those who do not wish to have education for nothing, may pay for it if they please."

6. Members of the Church of England saw the success of Lancaster's schools. In 1811 Andrew Bell’s ideas inspired the formation of the National Society who decided to set up schools based on the monitorial system. Children would learn about the teachings and practices of the Church of England, the national religion of the country. Andrew Bell

7. National Schools National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church The National Society, founded in 1811, set out to establish a school in every parish so children could receive an education based on the ‘national’ or established religion, that is, the Church of England. Church of England schools today are direct descendants of that policy.

8. A National School at Brandon, Suffolk

9. St Peter and St Paul School, Eye Some church schools were built or housed almost next to the parish church.

10. Some of the early National Schools actually looked similar to church buildings.

11. Sometimes they had a school house for the teacher to live in.

12. Sometimes you can still see the old building today.

13. What were National Schools like?

16. Winteringham National SchoolThe Reverend Read initiated the school, and in November 1845 wrote the following letter to parents: • The above school will be open for the reception of boys tomorrow morning, November 17th at 9 o’clock.  It is particularly requested that children will be sent to school punctually. • No girls can be accepted until the new schools are fit for use. • All the children who attend the day school will be expected to attend on Sunday. • No children will be allowed to remain in school unless they have been baptized and christened, or are anxious to be so at the first opportunity.

17. Until the new schools are opened the charges for instruction will be as follows; namely for the children of the poor 2d a week, and for those of farmers and trades people 3d. • When more than two attend from one poor family 1d a week will be charged for the third. All payments will be paid in advance every Monday morning.  • Each child will have to pay three pence for coals for the intervening period between now and Christmas.

18. What rules did schools have? 1. To behave respectfully to the mistresses, managers, and visitors and to be "lowly and reverent to all their betters”, both in the school, and whenever they meet them elsewhere. 2. To be kind to their school fellows and to all other children, and to avoid all quarrelling. 3. Never to cheat any one, nor to take another person's property, even in play; and never to play for money. 4. To use no bad language. 5. Never to mock cripples, or infirm persons, not to be rude to the old. 6. Never to be cruel to animals, nor unkind to any living creature.

19. 7. To be dutiful and respectful to their parents and friends, endeavouring to assist them as far as they can. 8. To keep holy the Sabbath, and to behave with seriousness, attention and reverence in all places of public worship. 9. On all occasions to speak the TRUTH. 10. To come to, and go from school in an orderly manner, never to throw stones, or to loiter by the way. Brooke CEVC Primary School today 11. To be quiet in the school, not to use any play things in school time, to keep their books neat and free from dog's ears, and not to climb upon the desks nor to scrawl upon or in any other way to damage the desks, forms or walls of the school-house.

20. Introducing the School Log Book 1863

21. In 1870 …. • The Forster Education Act required the setting up of ‘school ‘boards’ to build schools where more places were needed, often in cities, so all children could have elementary education. • The ‘Boards’ had power to make education compulsory in their area. Within 10 years it was compulsory for all. • These new ‘Board’ schools were built and run ‘on the rates’. They could charge fees if they wished but poorer children could attend free.

23. What did children learn?

24. Payment by Results!

25. Paying the School’s Pence

26. By 1901 …. • People kept building schools and by 1901 there was a school place for almost every child who wanted one. • Did the ‘British Schools’ and the ‘National Schools’, both Christian organisations, speed up the process of such provision?

28. In 1944 …. • The Butler Education Act made many changes to education in England. • secondary education for all up to15 • daily school prayers • free school milk • free medicals

29. Voluntary schools…. National Schools were originally founded and run by voluntary subscriptions from better-off members of the community. In 1944 all schools established by an LEA were renamed ‘County’ schools. The rest, mostly started by churches, were called ‘voluntary’ schools.

30. Old Newton CEVC School Viewed from the gateway of the local parish church

31. All Saints’ CEVA School, Newmarket

32. In 2011 …. schools and churches are celebrating the bicentenary of the National Society and Church of England schools

33. Join the 2011 celebration of C of E Schools! What about your school? What is its history? What can you tell people about it? What can they tell you?

34. Not just Church schools today • Once there were 300 C of E schools in Suffolk, one in almost every tiny village, villages like Darsham and Tunstall. Now there are 91. • For the Bicentenary, we also want to remember schools which closed but once served their local children and communities.

35. This school closed …. Cookley and Walpole

36. And so did this one … Parham School

37. Bradfield St George CE Primary School And this one …

38. How could you find out about your school’s history? What records do you think exist? Who would you interview? What kind of pictures might you look for?

39. 200 years of caring about education for everyone We believe: Every child matters to God.

40. Ngara Anglican Primary School, Kagera, Tanzania