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Historical information about Warmley C of E School

image above: Warmley C of E School circa 1907

Location: Church Ave. near St Barnabas Church (building survives)

On the 19th of Jan 1864 Mr Gabriel Goldney of Chippenham conveyed two rods, five perches of land to the minister and churchwardens of St Barnabas for the provision of a school.

The school was opened 12th Sept 1864 by Rev. J H Howard. (incumbent of the parish)

Headmistress was Miss E Greenville (assisted by her brother)

There were 65 children on the 'roll', 35 boys and 30 girls.

Charges for attendance were levied at the rate of 3d a week for those children who wrote in copybooks and 2d per week for all others.

School relocated to its current site in Poplar Road North Common in 1972. The old building was taken over for more than 10 years by the New Work Trust, an adult vocational training company.

Warmley C of E School log extracts 1865 - 1867

1865 School log extracts:

May 23rd. The Lansdown Races are being held today. Several of the children are gone.

May 24th. I find three boys are truanting, they are gone to the Races.

May 25th. Punished the boys who were truanting yesterday and Tuesday.

May 30th. I find we have lost two or three boys lately, through their being sent out to work.

June 1st. I find several of the girls are kept at home, to help in the house, for Whitsuntide.

June 2nd. Broke up for the Whitsuntide holidays.

June 15th. I took the fourth class into the playground for a lesson this afternoon as the heat was so oppressive.

June 15th. Several of the boys kept at home this week, haymaking.

June 21st. Unable to attend to my duties today on account of having a swollen face.

June 22nd. ditto

June 23rd. ditto.

July 12th. Have been obliged to send a note to Jarrett's mother on account of his continually coming late.

July 18th. The following report was received this morning:- "The examination has resulted very favourably for a school that has been in existence only a few months. Many of' the children in the first standard, who knew very little on their admittance, will require attention, especially in reading, and girls and boys alike in every class should be taught to speak and read loudly and distinctly. In other subjects attainments are satisfactory. The writing is good, the reading tolerably accurate, though as yet without much expression and the failures in arithmetic have been very few. In Scripture first and second classes showed a want of intelligence and a hesitation in answering which there is reason to believe is not usual with them. The school buildings are excellent and the school promises gradually to improve under its present teacher."

T. H. Howard. For the School Managers.

Sept. 5th. Mrs Howard kindly sent a quantity of pears to be given to the children.

Sept. 14th. I find the children are being kept at home to pick up potatoes.

Oct. 6th. Scull has come today; he has been kept at home to dig potatoes. He says he does not wish to continue as monitor any longer.

Oct. 31st. End of the quarter. This evening the children who sing in church partook of tea in the schoolroom. The tea was provided by the kindness of Mr. Howard, who, after it was over, addressed those present and the remainder of the evening was spent in practising singing.

Nov. 14th. A Catechism lesson was given by Mr. Howard.

Nov. 15th. The children of the first division were examined on the Book of Genesis by Mr. Howard.

Nov. 16th. Punished two boys for truanting.

1866 School log extracts:

March. 21st. Today being the day of Humiliation on account of the Cattle Plague, the elder children have attended Divine Service this afternoon.

March. 28th Have had some trouble with the children who stay in to dinner, as some of the dinners have been taken by other children. I have tried to find out the thief but have not yet succeeded. We have been in the habit of putting the dinners in the Lobby but intend for the future to lock them in the bookcase.

June 20th. I find Scull has been guilty of gross misconduct today I shall not allow him to continue as monitor any longer.

Nov. 5th. A poor attendance this afternoon on account of a treat at the British School. I have now determined to fine the monitors for being late as I find telling is of no use. E. Pincombe fined this morning. The children came very late to school so I intend commencing at half past nine instead of nine, these dark mornings.

Dec. 20th. We broke up today for the usual Christmas holiday. I this day resigned my duties as mistress of this school. E. Greenville.

1867 School log extracts:

Jan 7th. Edwin Lambert takes over as Master. No lady teacher – Eliz Chambers.

Jan. 11th. Schoolwork and conduct of the children throughout this day very fair. Have not had occasion to use corporal punishment at all this week.

Jan. 14th. The children were much more noisy than any day last week. The weather is extremely cold and consequently they frequently asked leave

Day 214 - Well as promised, presenting wifeys latest creation, and gift for one of her friends newborn. I have to say wifey does seem pretty happy when she is in the kitchen baking. I have to say I am pretty happy too, as the smell is awesome, altho I end up doing the dishes, not that I mind doing dishes or anything. So as mention in previous post the tastovision is working, go ahead and taste it, just go up to your monitor and lick it.

Anyways, I called Telus today to change our TV package, considering the promotion we were on expired, and we do not even come close to using all the channels we subscribe to, I just cut it off and adding the essentials, like Food, I wonder when Food HD will show up in Canada, currently they only have HGTV on the package listing that comes HD, seems like a waste since you have to pay 5 bucks just to get one channel in HD when other packages 5 bucks gets you like 5 channels. Moving on with my story, they Lady on the other side, after changing my package said that there are some channels on promotion, I was hesitant at first, then she said the magic words, free for 3 months, I was like man she must not know she is talking to an Asian guy, I was all over those free channels the moment the word free sounded like she was going to say free lol.

Moving on, being so far south today we hit up Ikea after we checked out the new baby (not ours). Walked around, trying to see if we could pick up a new dining room table, yes we have lived here for 2 years and not dinning table, just have not found the right one. Well needless to say we are still table less. Looking forward to sleeping in an extra hour tonight, as daylight savings ends YEA!