BOARDING SCHOOL FOR WORKING-CLASS CHILDREN
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A UNIQUE EXPERIMENT
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The formal opening of the new home of the Caldecott community, a hitherto unknown association providing the only boarding school for working-class children in the United Kingdom, which took place on Saturday at Goffs Oak, Cheshunt, Herts, was simple in itself, and attended only by a band of earnest sympathisers, mostly women.
The experiment of offering residential educational facilities to the children of city workers is widely expected to be the pioneer of a new national system. At least this was the opinion of the speakers including Dr. Alington, the head master of Eton; the Hon. Mrs Alfred Lyttelton, Dr Marion Phillips, Miss Olga Nethersole and Professor Campagnac, of the University of Liverpool.
No luxuries are introduced into this “public school” for the workers children, the pupils taking their share of the household, garden, and farm duties as well as enjoying an up-to-date education, in which both a modified form of the Montessori system and the Dalton plan find a place. The school is on contributory basis, but the fees paid by parents necessarily vary.
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer 24.11.1924, p. 9