Mosaic panel, Bygrove Primary School

Image: © Jim Osley Taken: 13 Aug 2014

A note on Clara Grant: "Clara Grant was a primary school teacher and settlement worker in London’s East End, who moved from the West Country to Bow at the turn of the last century. She became Head Teacher at the Infant’s School in Devon’s Road in 1900, quickly instituting a number of thoughtful changes that directly improved the lives of the children in her care. She revised class room techniques of structure and punishment, provided a hot breakfast for the children in her care, supplied them with some clothes and shoes and – most famously – created and distributed Farthing Bundles. Intended to provide children with toys to call their own, they were available for a token cost and the proceeds were directed back into the Settlement funds. These packages eventually earned her the affectionate nickname of the Bundle Woman of Bow." - quoted from this http://playtimes.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/clara-grant-and-the-farthing-bundles/.

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