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Barrow Primary School is located between the Shropshire towns of Broseley and Much Wenlock.
The following history is copied from British History Online
In 1618 John Slaney, lord of Marsh, built a school on Barrow hill, which he maintained during his life and endowed by will proved in 1632: he left the school a £30 rent charge (bought from John Weld) on Willey manor and left lands in Astley Abbots and at the Hem (in Linley) to Slaney’s nephew John Slaney (d. c. 1654), charged in perpetuity with a rent to maintain the school. The master, preferably to be a ‘preaching minister’, was to have £10 a year and the school house; a great part of 6 a. nearby and free coals were also assigned to the school. The master might take private pupils, but to earn his full salary he was to teach, free of charge, 20 poor boys to read and write, fitting them for apprenticeship. The stone schoolroom had a brick floor.
In 1671 the master was a clergyman and in 1716 and 1819 minister of Barrow; in 1819 he received the £10 but an usher taught the boys. The owners of the Hem continued to maintain the school until, in 1816, John Stephens gave it and adjoining land to Cecil Weld-Forester in exchange for a site near the church where Weld-Forester built a new school c. 1819. Pupils from Barrow and Willey, chosen by the master under Weld-Forester’s ’sanction’, usually left before they were 11. Weld-Forester thus probably became the school’s trustee, and his heirs, the Lords Forester, were its patrons and later rebuilt it again.
By 1837 the school was mixed on the National system. Its endowment continued, but pupils also paid fees until 1891 and the patron met any annual deficit. With a new classroom built in 1877 the school had 65 places. By 1887 it was overcrowded and in 1891 was rebuilt on the same site, two rooms providing 58 places. Closely associated with the church, the school was known as Barrow-cum-Willey C.E. school. Exceptionally irregular attendance helped to mar pupils’ progress.
During the Second World War the school admitted evacuees from London, Liverpool, and Chingford. Boys aged 13 attended woodwork centres at Broseley 1936-40 and Much Wenlock 1947-9, girls aged 13 attended Much Wenlock cookery centre 1946-9. Thirteen-year-olds transferred to Much Wenlock C.E. school in 1949, 11-year-olds to Much Wenlock Modern school opened in 1952.
The school became aided in 1957 and was improved in 1958. The roll was 32 in 1967 but 63 in 1973, an increase due entirely to extra-parochial admissions: by 1972 half of the pupils came from Broseley and its neighbourhood. The roll was falling in the earlier 1980s.
This blog is brillant I can not wait till I make one
Welldone Class3 .
Also happy christmas everyone
Great blog and website Barrow, good to see what you are all doing. Mr T
Hi
My eight year old son keeps a blog - to try out veg recipes sent in my people around the world. ( he used to hate ALL vegetables)
We would love to have your school visit the site and suggest any favourite recipes they like. We are eating through the A to Z of vegetables. Presently on C for Cabbage…
Http://www.greatbigvegchallenge.blogspot.com
Thank you
Hello Barrow, Mrs Hark here hope you are all enjoying your 1/2 term holidays even though its raining. Well done class 3 for the fantastic Assembly on Friday 25th May you lot are sooooo clever.
I really enjoyed the Maths challenge I know I said 18 but I really meant to say 37 the numbers just came out all wrong. ( cough, cough) At least I was not the only one to have got it wrong I dont think anybody got it did they?
I hope I have not Made any spelling mistakes I will be in trouble!
Well I must go now its Tea time and I think I can hear Adam in the cookie jar.
See you all on the 5th of June. Enjoy the rest of your hols. x x x
Hi i think your blog is REALLY good an clever. Can you please visit our school blog (trinityblog.ethink.org.uk)
Thank you
Well Done! Barrow may not be closed after all!!!
Now we can look forward to the future, and maybe more children will come to our wonderfull school.
Hi to all at Barrow, from Georgia Lowe and family!!
Missing you all incredibly!!!
hi to you all i had a lot of fun at school with you. hope your all having fun with all the teachers are the school dinners still amazing. love mitchell jones jessica jones big brother hope your doing well at the academy cant wait to see you