inner–london schools 1918–44 a thematic study - English Heritage

Foundation school: see endowed schoolFurther education (sometimes termed continuing education): Formal post-compulsoryeducational provision, including vocational, technical trade and adult education. Furthereducational institutions (such as evening classes) were sometimes based at schools.Grammar school: in the 1918-44 period, a highly selective maintained secondary school,with a liberal or academic curricula oriented towards university entry.Independent school: (sometimes termed public school): a school funded wholly fromprivate sources, usually in the form of school fees. Public schools were designed byarchitects in private practice.Intermediate school: see central school.Maintained school (sometimes termed council, provided, state or county school): built,owned and managed by the local education authority from public funds. Maintainedschools were usually designed by architects working within the local education authority.Modern school: the preferred term of the Hadow consultative committee for a centralschool (cf).Provided school: see maintained school.Non-provided school (sometimes termed voluntary school): a school built and run by anon-governmental body in receipt of public funding (under the 1902 Education Act, nonprovidedschools were subsidised by the local educational authority from public monies).Buildings, sites and structural alterations were to be provided for out of private funds,although the local education authority was responsible for upkeep and maintenance.Non-provided schools were usually designed by architects in private practice, althoughoccasionally the design was supplied by the architect’s department of the local educationauthority.Preparatory school (sometimes shortened to prep school): an independent primaryschool (cf), preparing children up to the age of eleven for secondary independentschools. Whilst many prep schools prepare their students for entry to a range of seniorschools, some are closely associated with a single school. Most British prep schools areprimarily day schools, but many also take boarders.Primary school: a school where the first stage of compulsory education takes place, withpupils leaving at the age of 11. This term was increasingly used in place of elementaryschool, partially as a result of the 1926 and 1931 reports of the consultative committeesof the Board of Education.Public school (see independent school).Secondary school: (1) in the broadest sense, a school where the final stage ofcompulsory education takes place, from the age of 11 onwards. This usage became© ENGLISH H ER I TAG E 43 - 20 09113