Material courtesy of Mike Stanbrook...

1641     The inventory of Robert Lawford Yeoman/Schoolmaster shows that he combined school teaching with farming. The school which was attached to his house consisted of 2 rooms, school house chamber and lower room. As `the skole house chamber' was used to store oats and wheat, `the lower roome in the skoole house' accommodating Packe saddeles and other furniture and other impellments', one wonders where the pupils were accommodated, it would seem that the school room was no longer functioning. 1741     We hear no more of schooling until 1741 when John Silcocks of Stoke Gifford insisted that the trustees of his £200 endowment for schools at Stoke Gifford, Winterbourne, Almondsbury and Filton should put it out "in interest only" and not in land. Nothing further is recorded about this school if there was one at all. 1786     A Sunday School Private Plan started. The school was probably held in a private house, possibly that of the master or mistress. The school day commenced at 9 am with the reading of the psalms then morning service a the church. After church the children went home to dinner. The afternoon commenced at 2 pm with the catechism and reading. This lasted until 8pm in the summer and 5 pm in the winter. Numbers of poor children admitted to the Sunday school: In 1786 it was 37, in 1787 it was 35, in 1788 it was 28 and in 1789 it was 26 1815     Winterbourne school opened. This was run under the National School Plan and was attended by children from Westerleigh, Frampton Cottrell and Stoke Gifford. 1842     Frampton Cotterell opened its own school. The Stoke Gifford parish map shows a small building in the village green opposite the St. Michaels school site marked as a school being listed as owned by the overseer of the poor. 1854     School room built into newly built Walls Court farm for the children of the farm workers 1863     Stoke Gifford Village School built on the edge of the Village Green Number Of Pupils in St. Michaels School on the 1st April 1945 Ages 4/5 5/6 6/7 7/8 8/9 9/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 13/14 14/15 Pupils 2 21 11 20 11 15 9 5 5 5 5 Margaret Rowland was the head teacher from about 1895 to 1922 Ms Maude Rooke, appointed Head Teacher in 1924, was taken ill and required an operation in May 1941 and died in March, a year later. 1959     Filton High School Opens