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Harrow County School For Girls
Harrow County School for Girls, sometimes called Harrow County Grammar School for Girls, was a grammar school located in Lowlands Road in Harrow, London, Harrow, now part of Greater London but in Middlesex at the time of construction. It was established in 1914. It closed in 1975 when the London Borough of Harrow adopted a Comprehensive school, comprehensive system of education. The site was then used by Lowlands Sixth Form College, later becoming Greenhill College and since 1999 Harrow College. Architecture The architects of Middlesex County Council favoured a Historicism (art), historicist style for schools, and the original building is described in Nikolaus Pevsner's ''Buildings of England'' as being in 'minimal Queen Anne style architecture, Queen Anne style'. Facilities In 1972 the ''New Scientist'' carried a report on educational reorganisation in Harrow which noted that the school had four laboratories compared to eight at Harrow County School for Boys. Former students Not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grammar School
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented secondary school, differentiated in recent years from less academic secondary modern schools. The main difference is that a grammar school may select pupils based on academic achievement whereas a secondary modern may not. The original purpose of medieval grammar schools was the teaching of Latin. Over time the curriculum was broadened, first to include Ancient Greek, and later English and other European languages, natural sciences, mathematics, history, geography, art and other subjects. In the late Victorian era grammar schools were reorganised to provide secondary education throughout England and Wales; Scotland had developed a different system. Grammar schools of these types were also established in British territories overseas, where they hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
