Grammar Schools

By allylap

  • State Provided funding for these extra places

  • Manchester Grammar School given State Funding

    So that 1200 of their places went to talented scholarship students.
  • Period: to

    History of the Grammar School

  • Entry to Grammar School depended on passing a Scholarship Exam

  • Smartest Students were automatically sent into top streams

    If you showed promise in Science - you went to the top stream.
    If you showed promise in Latin - again you went to the top stream.
  • Period: to

    Teachers supported students in achieving their goals

    Many helped not only academically but in some cases materially

  • Grammar Schools had high levels of equality

  • Many students left Grammar School at 14

  • Education Act

    Wanted technology schools - didn't come through, hence why secondary modern schools became more popular

  • The equality line started to show

    Bernsteins Language Code started to show

  • Rebellious Teenage Nature Threatened Grammar Schools

  • Over half of Oxbridge places when to Grammar School Students

  • Many Working Class Students could not afford Sixth Form

  • Grammar Schools revitalised post-war education

  • Passing 11+ became far more important

    Didn't want the embarrasment of going to a "second class" school.

  • Labour forced Grammars to become Comprehensive