The Elementary Education Act 1870, 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 ed
Punch comments on the new law. Children may learn to read--"subject to a variety of restrictions."
A National school was a school founded in 19th-century England and Wales by the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. These schools provided elementary education, in accordance with the
Aston and Cote Church of England Primary School in Aston, Oxfordshire, built as a National School in 1856
Former National School (built in 1833) in St James's Churchyard, Dursley, Gloucestershire
St Mary's voluntary aided Church of England First School, Northchurch, Hertfordshire. The school still uses the original 1864 building for communal purposes.