EDUCATION IN THE CITY OF NOTTINGHAM 21 



Secondary education is provided in the High School for boys with 500 

 on its rolls, the High School for girls (500), in the City's Municipal 

 Secondary Schools, viz., High Pavement Boys' School (720), Mundella 

 Mixed School (570) and Manning Girls' School (520), and in the County 

 Education Committee's Schools, Brincliffe School for Girls' (160), and 

 Henry Mellish Boys' School (490). 



The High School for Girls, opened in 1875, was the fourth school 

 founded by the Girls' Public Day School Trust, and after Norwich, the 

 first one in the provinces. The High Pavement School, founded in 1788, 

 was transferred to its present site in 1895. It was the first unsectarian 

 school in England and also the first organised Science School in 

 the country. When the Manning School was built in 1931, the 

 High Pavement Secondary School, formerly a mixed school, be- 

 came a Boys' school and its facilities for practical instruction were 

 greatly increased. Plans for a new Modern School for Boys to be erected 

 by the City Authority have been approved by the Board of Education, 

 and it will be erected on the Bestwood site, north of the city. Mundella 

 School is now the only co-educational secondary school in the city. 



In secondary education an agreement has been made between the county 

 and the city authorities under which parents residing in either of the two 

 areas have choice of the secondary schools which have been built in the 

 city by the two authorities. This agreement does away with some of the 

 travelling difficulties for pupils. The County Education Committee are 

 at present building a Secondary School for boys and girls in West 

 Bridgford to replace their existing Mixed School. 



In elementary education the changes have been most marked. The 

 schools have been reorganized. This reorganisation has involved far 

 more than the mere transfer of boys between the ages of 104 and 11+ to 

 central schools. Changes have been made in all departments of the 

 schools in their staffing, equipment, curricula, and in the methods of 

 teaching. 



As a rule the schools have been divided into three classes — infants' 

 schools for children up to 7 or 8 years of age, junior schools for boys and 

 girls from 7 or 8 years of age to 10^ or 1 H years of age, and central schools 

 for boys and girls over lOi years of age. No nursery school has been 

 formed, since it is considered that young children can be educated more 

 efficiently and more economically in well-equipped nursery classes attach- 

 ed to infants schools than in separate nursery schools. 



In the central schools, 30 in number, with 12,000 pupils on their rolls, 

 the sexes have been separated, and with the exception of two schools the 

 girls are taught in girls' schools under headmistresses with women assist- 

 ants, and the boys in boys' schools under headmasters with men assistants. 

 In the two schools which contain both sexes, the boys and girls are taught 

 in different classes. It was considered that only by the separation of the 

 sexes could education suitable to each be developed without undue regard 

 to tradition. In particular, it was felt that girls' education in the past had 

 been influenced too much by the courses of study adopted for boys, and 

 by the requirements of universities and their examining bodies, and that it 

 was only right that there should now be freedom to experiment with other 

 systems of training and instruction. 



