The Old School House, but I might be wrong !

The Old School House, but I might be wrong !, originally uploaded by Rusty Marvin (experimenting).

P1840935 - I was always told this was the original school house in Heathenstreet (16th Century) now Havenstreet. The small hamlet was considered to be in control of what is now Ryde, some three miles away. The ecclestical parish was formed from Arreton and Newchurch in 1853, some 22 years later the railway arrived, in 1892 the Ryde and Haven street councils joined and built a larger single room school house opposite. This were I may be wrong, in the sense that above (now converted to a dwelling) may have been something else, perhaps a chapel (but the dates are all wrong). The image below shows Havenstreet and Ryde School board 1896, four years after the building above. The Victorian era saw huge population booms, perhaps there was no statistics and another larger building was built or there was political going on's to join the two parishes together (Havenstreet and Ryde).
Ryde the now larger town did not really change from a small fishing village until the end of the 19th Century, made popular by sail powered boats collecting fresh water from Monkton Mead, this included the first fleets that sailed to Australia all 1,030 of which 753 were Convicts & their children!

The school house below was in use up to a few years ago and certainly was a single group school house with children from the legal attendance age (5) up to 11 year old. Now a community centre.

The whole education age thing has been turned inside out, the Isle of Wight Education unit has followed central governments requirements and now there are huge school units on one site. The school units are now in a two stage set 5-11, 11-16 (I think), which aligns to pre the 11 plus exam system (which was remove due to incompatibility of little people of those age groups). The logic may be based on the decline in children of school age, aligning to the post war peaks of baby boomer's, the boomer's-boomer's and now their off spring with smaller family in recent years.

The third picture in the series relates to the school used in the Havenstreet catchment area. This makes we wonder if free transport is provided. Some legal requirement to transport children to school who lived more than three away from the school. Or the flocks of urban assault vehicles containing one or two children with the yummy mummies, driving like they are in charge of a tank crushing the revolution every morning and afternoon. Most think they are driving a Hummer or something that wide or wider........ok for another day before I drift off topic.

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Scavenger Challenge
12. Bonus points for a one-room schoolhouse, the assignment specifies school buildings.


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