EDUCATION IN YORK 65 



Education Committee every year award four major scholarships, each 

 worth £65 per annum. 



From the St. Peter's School are given three leaving exhibitions, value 

 £^0 per annum. The Education Committee also make direct grants 

 to the university of Leeds of about ;^5oo per annum. 



Elementary Education. 



With regard to the elementary schools, when the York School Board 

 came into being in the year 1889 there were in the city 16 Church of 

 England schools, 4 Roman Catholic, and 3 Wesleyan schools, some of 

 these school buildings dating back to the year 1832. All the new ele- 

 mentary schools built since that date have been, with one exception, the 

 work of the local authority, first the School Board and now the Education 

 Committee. The new St. Aelred's School on the Tang Hall housing 

 estate has been provided by the Roman Catholic community. Much, 

 however, has been done to improve the old voluntary school buildings by 

 extensions and adaptations. The Manor C.E. School was transferred 

 from schoolrooms adjoining the Yorkshire School for the Blind at King's 

 Manor into the block of buildings in Marygate that formerly housed 

 the Boys' Industrial School. 



The old premises were absorbed by the Yorkshire School for the 

 Blind, and, with appropriate alterations to the Marygate buildings, the 

 premises of the old Industrial School were made to serve admirably the 

 purposes of the Manor C.E. Boys' School, first as an ordinary elementary 

 and later as a higher grade school. In the Walmgate area the old George 

 Street Wesleyan School was purchased by the managers of the adjoining 

 St. George's R.C. School, to extend the R.C. School accommodation. 

 To this school was added a new wing containing woodwork and science 

 centres. 



The issue of the Hadow Report in 1926 gave the lead for drastic and 

 far-reaching changes in organisation of elementary schools throughout 

 the country. 



The York Education Committee had been considering, during two 

 years, schemes of reorganisation for their elementary schools, in 

 which between 12,000 and 13,000 children are taught. Their selected 

 scheme was submitted to the City Council, and approved in general 

 principle without any commitment to details, one month before the issue 

 of the Hadow Report. The central principle of the new organisation 

 is the recognition of the age period n-12 years as a definite pyscho- 

 logical turning point in the mental growth of child life. It is intended 

 that at this point a break shall be made by a transfer from junior school 

 education, irrespective of the individual child's attainments. These, 

 however, as shown by examination and school records, decide the type 

 of school to which the transfer should be made, whether to secondary 

 school, central selective (higher grade) or to central non-selective (senior) 

 school. The conventional school organisation formerly obtaining was 

 that of the infants' school for the age groups from under five years up to the 

 eighth or ninth year, and mixed schools thereafter up to Standard VII 

 at 14 years of age. In York an early start was made, but for such 



