The Estate - Bevendean History Project
Bevendean County Infant and Junior Schools
"A Place Sacred To Children”
After the opening ceremony by Sir Frederick Clarke, the party, which
included the Mayor and Mayoress of Brighton (Alderman and Mrs S. Davey)
and the chairman of the Education Committee (Councillor G. Fitzgerald),
together with other councillors, carried out an inspection of the
classrooms.
"You children are lucky to have such a school," said Sir. Fred Clarke, the eminent educationist and educational adviser to the National Union of Teachers, at Brighton yesterday (Friday).
He was seated in the beautiful assembly hall of the £111,000 Primary School at Lower Bevendean, which he had just declared open.
For parents Sir Fred had this message.
“Remember that this school is a place sacred to children, and reverence it as such. If you do not respect it but misuse and abuse it, you will be preventing your children from growing and developing properly.”
Speaking of the great advance in humaneness and Christian feeling and feeling towards children. Sir Fred said "The object of private charity has now become it the object of public policy.
“Beauty and Utility”
Complementing the architect (Mr. P. Billington), Sir Fred remarked: “He has succeeded in producing a combination of charm and beauty with practical utility." He congratulated; also the teachers and their heads Mr. W. H. Bond and Miss Cross. And of Brighton he said, “It stands high in the educational world for its enterprise.”
Councillor Fitzgerald chairman of the Education Committee who presided, said the school provided for 600 pupils in separate infant and junior departments, and the canteen is designed to serve 375 mid-day meals in two sittings. Referring to the ten acres of playing fields, he said: “How wonderful that would have been in my school days.
To those who represented that “millions are being wasted in education," he replied: "That might be a possibility if parents and teachers do not work hand in hand, for it is both in the home and in the school that the seed of success is sown."
“A Good Heritage”
Sir Fred Clarke was thanked on the proposition of the Mayor (Alderman S. Davey), seconded by Alderman Miss D. E. Stringer (chairman of the schools sub-committee) and supported by Councillor A. J. Sadler Chairman of the sites and works sub-committee). Songs were sung by the school choir.
"A goodly heritage" was how the school was described in the dedicatory prayers offered by the Vicar of Moulsecombe (the Rev. E. L. Phillips) who was deputising for the Vicar of Brighton.
From the Brighton and Hove Herald on 20 January 1951.
"You children are lucky to have such a school," said Sir. Fred Clarke, the eminent educationist and educational adviser to the National Union of Teachers, at Brighton yesterday (Friday).
He was seated in the beautiful assembly hall of the £111,000 Primary School at Lower Bevendean, which he had just declared open.
For parents Sir Fred had this message.
“Remember that this school is a place sacred to children, and reverence it as such. If you do not respect it but misuse and abuse it, you will be preventing your children from growing and developing properly.”
Speaking of the great advance in humaneness and Christian feeling and feeling towards children. Sir Fred said "The object of private charity has now become it the object of public policy.
“Beauty and Utility”
Complementing the architect (Mr. P. Billington), Sir Fred remarked: “He has succeeded in producing a combination of charm and beauty with practical utility." He congratulated; also the teachers and their heads Mr. W. H. Bond and Miss Cross. And of Brighton he said, “It stands high in the educational world for its enterprise.”
Councillor Fitzgerald chairman of the Education Committee who presided, said the school provided for 600 pupils in separate infant and junior departments, and the canteen is designed to serve 375 mid-day meals in two sittings. Referring to the ten acres of playing fields, he said: “How wonderful that would have been in my school days.
To those who represented that “millions are being wasted in education," he replied: "That might be a possibility if parents and teachers do not work hand in hand, for it is both in the home and in the school that the seed of success is sown."
“A Good Heritage”
Sir Fred Clarke was thanked on the proposition of the Mayor (Alderman S. Davey), seconded by Alderman Miss D. E. Stringer (chairman of the schools sub-committee) and supported by Councillor A. J. Sadler Chairman of the sites and works sub-committee). Songs were sung by the school choir.
"A goodly heritage" was how the school was described in the dedicatory prayers offered by the Vicar of Moulsecombe (the Rev. E. L. Phillips) who was deputising for the Vicar of Brighton.
From the Brighton and Hove Herald on 20 January 1951.
