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Wikipedia PageThe James Oglethorpe Primary School The James Oglethorpe Primary School is named after General James Edward Oglethorpe (1696-1785) who was an English soldier and philanthropist who entered Parliament in 1722. In 1733 he founded the American State of Georgia and he was Governor for thirteen years. In 1744 he married Elizabeth Wright of Cranham Hall, Cranham, and came to live at the hall. He lived in Cranham for thirty years. He is buried in All Saints’ Church, Cranham. The James Oglethorpe Primary School opened in January 1950. It was a new building and was called, at the time, Oglethorpe County Primary. The school was built in response to a growing local population the children of which were rapidly outgrowing their previous ‘home’ at Boyd Hall. Education in Cranham can trace its history back as far as 1818 when the first ‘Dames’ school began in a cottage in Cranham churchyard. The school was funded by Thomas Boyd and his wife Sarah. The Boyd family firm, J.C. Boyd Ltd, dealt in cotton cloth and this provided sufficient income for the Boyds to pay the salary of the school mistress, Sarah Hunwicks, as well as the school’s expenses. In 1854 the cottage was pulled down and the school moved into a wooden school room which had been built in the grounds of Cranham Hall (the Boyd family home). Interestingly, the school room was especially built as a moveable structure on wheels in the style of a ‘shepherd’s hut’. Eventually, Cranham Hall was sold at auction to Mr Richard Benyon. In 1869 a fete was held to commemorate the Jubilee of the first school in Cranham and at that fete Mr Benyon donated a site for a new school to be built. The new school was built of Essex stock bricks. It had two spacious classrooms with a playground, shelters and separate toilets for the boys and girls. The tiled roof carried a bell cote and the bell was chimed by pulling a rope. The school was named after Sarah Boyd and opened its doors in 1870. The Boyd school provided an education for the local children up to 1950, at which point it became the church hall for Cranham Church. The children and their teachers had seen the occupancy of the building dramatically increase due to the influx of families being housed in ‘pre-fabs’ on estates around the area following the World War II. The decision was then taken by Essex County Council to build a new school. Oglethorpe County Primary opened in January 1950 to coincide with the tercentenary of the General’s birth (later to be re-named The James Oglethorpe Primary School). The School BadgeThe chevron is taken from the centre of the ‘Southern Cross’, the original flag of the founding states of the United States of America, of which Oglethorpe’s Georgia was one. Each star is, of course, a state – Georgia is the centre star for our purposes. The crosslet shows the religious origins of the School as a church school. The acorn is a little seed from which the mighty oak will grow, the oak being: · The tree of knowledge · The tree which never stops growing · The state tree of Georgia The book represents learning and teaching – the school’s ‘raison d’etre’. The helmet is that of the esquire (Sir James Edward Oglethorpe) surmounted by the boar’s head from Oglethorpe’s own family coat of arms. The motto (loosely ‘He knows not how to submit’) is Oglethorpe’s own family motto. The colours are red and blue on silver. References |
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