Evolution of schooling report

THE EVOLUTION OF SCHOOLING

1800 - 1899

Schools have changed majorly since 1800!

In 1800 the schools were very different instead of classes there was a school house (a hall that’s used as a class). Everybody sat in straight rows with one small fire in the middle of the class to heat the room. The teacher would stand up the front of the room and teach. There would also be big classes of about 40 kids. The school house would usually be 4 -5 miles away from their houses, which was considered a walking distance for the kids. In some classes the lessons would be different for some older students, but mainly everybody got the same lessons. Hygiene was poor because many students had no lunch and everybody drank water from one bucket. If you behaved bad your minimum punishment was holding a heavy book for 1hr!

1900 - 1949

The schools hadn’t changed much since the 1800’s. The classes were still big and had a fireplace, but now the often used punishment was the strap or the cane, which hurt a lot more!

1950 - 1999

Most of the public in England was uneducated in 1950 because of WW2, school was only 2p a week but it was still too much of a fee for families, they even gave prizes to students who came every week, another thing that made it hard was the minimum leaving school age was raised to 12 years old.

2000 - 2015

Schools are evolving fast many schools are trialing MLE (modern learning environments). It means we can manage our own learning and we plan our learning! But it works in different ways for different people

I think that schooling has evolved for the better, if it hasn’t, at least I won’t get the cane!

By Josh