The Home and Colonial School Society was a
Church of England
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institution founded in 1836 by
Elizabeth Mayo, Charles Mayo,
James Pierrepont Greaves and John S. Reynolds for the education of children and the training of teachers especially by then novel methods proposed by
Pestalozzi. It had a training college located on Gray's Inn Road in London,
where it established a 'model infant school'. In 1894 the school moved to Highbury Hill House and was renamed Highbury Hill High School for Girls (it survives today as
Highbury Fields School, a girls' secondary school in Islington).
In 1894 the Society became part of the
National Froebel Union.
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Notable people
* Hana Catherine Mullens, who worked in zenana missions in British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in South Asia. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one form or another ...
* Charlotte Mason, British educational philosopher and founder of the Parents National Education Union
* Marianne Bernard, mistress at Girton College
* Jane Roadknight, school inspector in Nottingham
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history
School details
Defunct schools in the City of London
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