Presteigne - The National School
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Early progress
The school had its first recorded inspection by Her Majesty's Inspectors in 1868. The Log Book contains the Inspector's report shown here.
National School
Log Books
Powys
County Archives
R/E/PS/43/L1
This extract reads as follows:
"This is comparatively a new School having only been
started about eight months ago, previous to which time there
was no school in the neighbourhood. The discipline, order, and
efficiency are at present inferior, but this is in a very great
measure owing to the short time the children have been under
instruction, and their ignorance when first admitted. Next year
I shall expect to find a general improvement throughout the school.
The present buildings, furniture, apparatus etc., must altogether
be considered as temporary; they are very ill adapted for teaching
purposes."
This report gives us a picture of the beginnings of universal education, and some idea of the difficulties faced by the first teachers and their managers.
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