St. Mary's Town and Country School was an independent, non-denominational, co-educational progressive day and boarding school, founded in Belsize Park, London in 1937. It closed at the end of 1982. The school was owned and run by Mrs Elisabeth Paul PhD (née Selver), assisted by her husband Henry Paul, both of German-Jewish origin. In 1937 they bought the school, originally called St. Mary's School, at 1 Belsize Avenue.

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  • St. Mary's Town and Country School was an independent, non-denominational, co-educational progressive day and boarding school, founded in Belsize Park, London in 1937. It closed at the end of 1982. The school was owned and run by Mrs Elisabeth Paul PhD (née Selver), assisted by her husband Henry Paul, both of German-Jewish origin. In 1937 they bought the school, originally called St. Mary's School, at 1 Belsize Avenue. The school curriculum was biased toward the learning of languages and the arts from an early age, and the pupils, aged 4 to 18 years, were primarily the children of artists, musicians, writers, film producers and actors.
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  • Synopsis: Film of two children who both live in Gibson Square, Islington. The young boy comes from a working class home and lives in a basement flat in the square, his friend lives in a large house in the square, and she goes to a private school. Various shots of children playing in the garden of Gibson Square in Islington appear throughout the film. The parents of two of the children that live in Gibson Square, Islington talk about the education they are giving their children and what they expect their children to do when they leave school. The working class family send their son to a council school, and have little idea of the methods of education used there, while the upper class family have chosen to send their children to a private progressive school. Various shots of schoolchildren at a progressive school in Hampstead, children read stories, speak French, etc. Headmistress talks about the aims of the school and its methods. Shots of children in playground and in ...
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  • St. Mary's Town and Country School was an independent, non-denominational, co-educational progressive day and boarding school, founded in Belsize Park, London in 1937. It closed at the end of 1982. The school was owned and run by Mrs Elisabeth Paul PhD (née Selver), assisted by her husband Henry Paul, both of German-Jewish origin. In 1937 they bought the school, originally called St. Mary's School, at 1 Belsize Avenue.
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  • St. Mary's Town and Country School
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