Click to edit Master subtitle style 02/10/2016 The Beginnings of the Educational System

HOW IT BEGAN? There were almost certainly schools in Britain during the roman occupation. Leach (1915) stated, ‘whatever other institutions of Britain, if any, survived its conversion into England, churches and schools did not’.

ST. AUGUSTINE Arrived in England in 597. He needed priests to conduct church services and boys to sing in the choir. He and his successors established two types of school: the grammar school to teach Latin to English priests, and the song school where the ‘sons of gentlefolk’ were trained to sing in cathedral choirs.

The aim of the schools was strictly vocational: to prepare pupils for entry to the Church. His concept of education derived from the Roman and Hellenistic schools of rhetoric. It comprised the seven liberal arts and sciences- grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry,,music and astronomy.

The very first grammar school was established at Canterbury in 598. Similar schools began to be established in other parts of England; East Anglia in 631 A song school at York in 634

Many schools were founded in the century after Augustine’s arrival, including those at Dorchester in Oxfordshire (around 634), Winchester (around 648) and Hexham (around 678).

INTERRUPTIONS TO THE EDUCATION SYSTEM The Viking invasions (around 866) The Normans in 1066

EDUCATION CONTINUED THROUGH THE YEARS  During the Georgian era ( ), education was dependent on class with only higher classes receiving an education.

During Victorian times ( ), education became compulsory between the ages of 5 and 11. In the late Victorian period grammar schools were reorganised and their curriculum was modernised, although Latin was still taught.

 The Education Act of 1918; schooling became obligatory to the age of 14.  1973; A revised education act raised the school age to 16.

EVERY CHILD MATTERS (2004) Its main aims are for every child, whatever their background or circumstances, to have the support they need to:  Be healthy  Stay safe  Enjoy and achieve  Make a positive contribution  Achieve economic well-being

CURRENT EDUCATION IN ENGLAND