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The School House, Staines-upon-Thames, UK
The School House in Staines-upon-Thames is a surviving example of an early 19th-century one room school in the UK and was part of Miss Margaret Pope's efforts supporting the Quaker principle of bringing education to all (including those excluded from Church of England schools) which, in the early 19th Century was progressed by both men and women. Location The School House is located at 20 Hale Street in Staines-upon-Thames in the north of the county of Surrey and is within the Staines Conservation area. It is the centre of five buildings on Hale Street between the Wraysbury River and the River Colne. History and role in education in 19th-century The house was purpose built early 1800s as a one-room school and the starting point of Miss Margaret Pope's contribution to bringing education to all. There was a school for boys in the ‘Mission Hall’ (16 Hale Street) and references to a school for girls built near by in 1831. One room schools were common place in UK, Europe and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Room School
One-room schools, or schoolhouses, were commonplace throughout rural portions of various countries, including Prussia, Norway, Sweden, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Spain. In most rural and small town schools, all of the students met in a single room. There, a single teacher taught academic basics to several grade levels of elementary-age children. While in many areas one-room schools are no longer used, some remain in developing nations and rural or remote areas. In the United States, the concept of a "little red schoolhouse" is a stirring one, and historic one-room schoolhouses have widely been preserved and are celebrated as symbols of frontier values and of local and national development. When necessary, the schools were enlarged or replaced with two-room schools. More than 200 are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. In Norway, by contrast, one-room schools were viewed more as impositions upon conse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
