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Corsham Regis Primary Academy, Kings Avenue, opened in 1943 for the children of incoming military workers. It became a junior school in 1955 when older children transferred to the Corsham Secondary Modern School, and now has about 150 pupils. [34] Neston Primary School, Church Rise, Neston, was founded in 1861 as Corshamside School.
The Corsham School was described as "exceptional" in increasing the number of pupils attaining top level GCSE grades by Bob Wolfson, Wiltshire's education director, in January 2004. More than two-thirds of Corsham's pupils achieved five or more A* to C grades at GCSE in 2003, a big improvement from just over half the students in 2002. [ 3 ]
St Patrick's RC Primary School, Corsham; St Paul's Primary School, Chippenham; St Peter's CE Academy, Chippenham; St Peter's CE Primary Academy, Salisbury; St Sampson's CE Primary School, Cricklade; St Thomas à Becket CE Primary School, Tilshead; Sambourne CE Primary School, Warminster; Sarum St Pauls CE Primary School, Salisbury
This is a list of some of the endowed schools in England and Wales existing in the early part of the 19th century.It is based on the antiquarian Nicholas Carlisle's survey of "Endowed Grammar Schools" published in 1818 [1] with descriptions of 475 schools [2] but the comments are referenced also to the work of the Endowed Schools Commission half a century later.
Endowed schools have a long history. The oldest, having been founded in 597 as a cathedral school, is King's School, Canterbury.Over time a group of the endowed schools became known as "public schools" to differentiate from private teaching by tutors and to indicate that they were open to the public regardless of religious beliefs, locality and social status. [4]
The primary curriculum consisted of "three 'core subjects' (mathematics, English and science); six foundation subjects (history, geography, technology, music, art and physical education)". [ note 3 ] [ 120 ] Teachers of five-to-seven-year-olds were sceptical of these changes and remained close to previous child-centred practices.
The almshouses were founded to provide homes for six (later eight) poor people and education for ten children, on a site on the eastern edge of the town, near the south entrance to Corsham Court. The L-shaped building has six houses for single women along its north-east side, each with a gable and mullioned windows ; at the centre is a Baroque ...
The "Date" column gives the date of completion of the building. The "Grade" column gives the listed building status if applicable.; All schools were built by Thomas Simpson or (from 1890) Thomas Simpson & Son except those marked (†), which were built prior to the 1870 Education Act and were taken over by the school board as a result of the Act.