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Life\n\nSchools  \nNicola Barber  \nWAYLAND  \n60UTH  \nFirst published in 2008 by Wayland  \nCopyright Wayland 2008  \nThis paperback edition published in 2012 by WaylandEditor:Katie PowellDesigner:Jane HawkinsConcept design:Paul Cherrill  \nWayland  \n338 Euston Road  \nLondon NW13BH  \nWayland AustraliaLevel 17/207 Kent StreetSydney,NSW 2000  \nAll rights reserved  \n\n| Lanc:ashire Library Services   |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| 12367482   |  |\n| PE\"ERS   | J942.08BAR   |\n| 28.99   | 17-Apr-2012   |\n|  |  |\n\nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication DataBarber,Nicola  \nSchool.-(Victorian life)  \n1.School children -Great Britain-History -19th  \ncentury -Juvenile literature 2.Schools -Great  \nBritain -History -19th century -Juvenile literature  \n3.Great Britain -Social life and customs-19th  \ncentury -Juvenile literature  \n1.Title  \n371'.00941'09034  \nISBN 9780750268776  \nPicture acknowledgements:Bettmann/Corbis:24brinkstock/Alamy:20,Mary Evans Picture Library:  \n7,8,10,12,14,15,16,19,26,27,Hulton Archive/GettyImages:21R,2d Alan King/Alamy:13 Museum ofDartmoor Life:18B,c.2004 TopFoto/TopFoto.co.uk:Cover (Main Image),9,Topham Picturepoint/TopFoto.co.uk:3,22,Visual Arts Library(London):11Wayland Archive:Cover(BR),4-5,6,17,18T,21L,25,  \n28,30,West Glamorgan Archive Service:23  \nWith thanks to Wrexham Heritage Services for the kindreproduction of the extract on p17,to Powys CountyArchives Office for the extract on p19,to StrettonHandley Primary school for the extract on p23 and toHistory House (www.historyhouse.co.uk)for theextract on p25.  \nPrinted in China  \nWayland is a division of Hachette Children's Books,an Hachette UK company  \nwww.hachette.co.uk  \nContents  \nVictorian school lifeWho went to school?8Schools for the poor10Private education12Education for girls14The school day16What did they learn?18The schoolroom20Teachers22Discipline24Sport and recreation26Timeline28Glossary29Index and resources30  \nWords in bold  \ncan be found in  \nthe glossary.  \n# Victorian school life\n\nQueen Victoria came to the throne in 1837and reigned for 64 years until her death in1901.These six decades were a time of hugechange in Britain.  \n# Changing times\n\nThe population of the country more than doubled during this time.The Industrial Revolution saw thousands of people moving from ruralareas to towns and cities,and the development of the railwayschanged the way people lived and worked forever.There were huge  \nadvances in education,too.At the beginning of QueenVictoria's reign,very fewchildren even attended school.By the time of her death schoolwas both compulsory and free.  \nMilestones in education  \nBefore 1833,most schoolswere run and funded bychurch societies.In 1833,thegovernment became involvedin education for the first time.It agreed to give £20,000 a yearto these organisations to helpthem build schools.  \nThis Sunday School educated poorchildren who could not afford togo to a regular school as they hadto work during the week.  \nIt was not until 1870 thatthe government passed itsElementary Education Act.This was intended to provideeducation for the manythousands of children whowere not already attending aschool.The schools set up underthis act were run by a board oflocally elected people,andwere known as Board Schools.  \nHalf-timers  \nBy 1880,there were  \nabout 4,000 Board Schools,and school was madecompulsory for the firsttime for children up to10 years of age.School wasnot free however,and manypoor families struggled tofind even the smallest feescharged for their children'seducation.Some children,called 'half-timers’,had tocombine their schoolworkwith paid work,as theirfamilies needed them toearn a wage.In 1891,thegovernment finally gave grantsto make education free in allelementary schools.  \nwritten atthetime   \nDuring Victoria's reign people began slowly to realisethat educating both the rich and the poor was good forthe country.In 1894,the writer Sir Arthur Conan Doylesums up 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