Primary education Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Paupers and the poor==== Though the Grammar schools were set up to deliver elementary education, they did require their entrants to have certain skills on admission. In particular, they expected them to be able to read and write in the vernacular. There was a need for something more basic.<ref name=WCEd>{{cite book |title=The Education of the Working Classes to 1870 {{!}} British History Online |date=1969 |location=London |pages=240 |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol1/pp213-240 |access-date=22 April 2019 |archive-date=22 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422231650/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol1/pp213-240 |url-status=live }}</ref> This was addressed by [[Dame school]]s, then [[charity school]]s, often set up by the churches ([[Church of England school|C of E schools]]), Bell's [[British and Foreign School Society|British School]]s and Joseph Lancaster's [[National school (England and Wales)|National School]]s.<ref name=WCEd/> <!-- Sunday School movement [[Robert Raikes]] [[Ragged Schools]] --> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page