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Elizabeth Burgwin
Elizabeth Burgwin born Elizabeth Canham OBE (1850 – 1940) was a headteacher in London who founded the largest charity supplying free school meals in London. She took an interest in the care of children with Learning disability, learning disabilities. Life Burgwin was born in 1850 to Miriam and Samuel Canham. Her father was a labourer on a farm. She was educated in London at Whitelands College, Whitelands Training College's school until she began a five-year apprenticeship in Chelsea at ''St Luke's Parochial Girls' School''i in 1864. In 1870 she married Thomas William Burgwin who was a butcher and they had their only child. She passed the exam and gained her teacher's certificate while teaching for two years in West Ham. There was a huge expansion in teaching caused by the Elementary Education Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 75) which required that every child should be taught in a reasonable building led by a qualified head teacher. Sixty-two temporary prefabricated buildings were c ...
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Learning Disability
Learning disability, learning disorder, or learning difficulty (British English) is a condition in the brain that causes difficulties comprehending or processing information and can be caused by several different factors. Given the "difficulty learning in a typical manner", this does not exclude the ability to learn in a different manner. Therefore, some people can be more accurately described as having a "learning difference", thus avoiding any misconception of being disabled with a possible lack of an ability to learn and possible negative stereotyping. In the United Kingdom, the term "learning disability" generally refers to an intellectual disability, while conditions such as dyslexia and dyspraxia are usually referred to as "learning difficulties". While ''learning disability'' and ''learning disorder'' are often used interchangeably, they differ in many ways. Disorder refers to significant learning problems in an academic area. These problems, however, are not enough to wa ...
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Whitelands College
Whitelands College is the oldest of the four constituent colleges of the University of Roehampton. History Whitelands College is one of the oldest higher education institutions in England (predating every university except University of Oxford, Oxford, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, University of London, London and Durham University, Durham). It was founded in 1841 by the Church of England's National Society for Promoting Religious Education, National Society as a teacher training college for women. A flagship women's college of the Church of England, it was the first college of higher education in the UK to admit women. Associated with it was Whitelands College School, which opened in 1842; indirectly, this continues as Lady Margaret School. The college was originally based in, and named after, a Georgian building, Whitelands House, on King's Road, Chelsea, London, Chelsea. The original house was demolished and rebuilt in 1890 to meet the requirements of a growing number o ...
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Orange Street School Building Published 1874
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West Ham
West Ham is a district in East London, England and is in the London Borough of Newham. It is an inner-city suburb located east of Charing Cross. The area was originally an ancient parish formed to serve parts of the older Manor of Ham, and it later became a County Borough. The parish and borough of West Ham, situated east of the River Lea and north of the River Thames, was an administrative unit, with largely consistent boundaries, from the 12th century to 1965, when it merged with neighbouring areas to become the western part of the new London Borough. Before 1965 the area was part of the historic county of Essex. West Ham's long established boundaries take in the sub-districts of Stratford, London, Stratford, Canning Town, Plaistow, Newham, Plaistow, Custom House, Newham, Custom House, Silvertown, Forest Gate and the western parts of Upton Park, London, Upton Park which is shared with East Ham. The district was historically dependent on its docks and other maritim ...
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Elementary Education Act 1870
The Elementary Education Act 1870 ( 33 & 34 Vict. c. 75), commonly known as Forster's Education Act, set the framework for schooling of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 in England and Wales. It established local education authorities with defined powers, authorized public money to improve existing schools, and tried to frame conditions attached to this aid so as to earn the goodwill of managers. It has long been seen as a milestone in educational development, but recent commentators have stressed that it brought neither free nor compulsory education, and its importance has thus tended to be diminished rather than increased.Nigel Middleton, "The Education Act of 1870 as the Start of the Modern Concept of the Child." British Journal of Educational Studies 18.2 (1970): 166-179. The law was drafted by William Forster, a Liberal MP, and it was introduced on 17 February 1870 after campaigning by the National Education League, although not entirely to their requirements. I ...
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