Former British School, Brewery Street, Highworth
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Former British School, Brewery Street, Highworth
Image: © P L Chadwick Taken: 11 Mar 2011
This school was built in 1849 as a British School. These were schools which were built from 1810 onwards by a non-denominational organisation called the British & Foreign Schools Society. They taught using the works of Joseph Lancaster, a Quaker teacher. The schools used the monitorial system, whereby the older children, under the supervision of paid staff, taught the younger ones. By 1851 there were about 1,500 British Schools, compare to 17,000 National Schools. Today the building is still in educational use, but by the Vorda Pre-School, for very young children. Image
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Image Location
Latitude
51.628976
Longitude
-1.710001