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A National School was built in 1857. The land was given by Sir Alexander Malet, Baronet and there was a Treasury grant of £73. By the following year, between 40 and 50 children attended the school, which consisted of a single room 16 by 25 feet. The school was well supplied with books and apparatus and the children were taught by 'a fairly qualified mistress, formerly assistant at Marden School. Some children from Allington and Boscombe also attended the school A separate room for lectures and an evening school was built in 1858; children who had to go out to work could then continue their education in the evenings,. In 1871 there were 70 pupils.
We do not have school log books for the Victorian period but the following will give an idea of what life was like in a village school at the time.
The following general information would be relevant to the school for the latter part of the 19th century. Fees were paid for each child until 1891, normally at the rate of one penny (0.4p) a week and the 'school pence' were collected by the schoolteacher. There would have been a schoolmaster, or schoolmistress, with an assistant teacher and perhaps a pupil teacher. The pupil teacher was taught by the head before lessons started, took exams, sometimes went to the Diocesan Training College eventually becoming a teacher themselves. They mainly taught the younger children.