School type starting with E
Environmental Education Centre (1971-)
Field Studies Centres emerged in 1971 to provide for the study and observation of the natural environment by primary and secondary pupils. The centres have no regular enrolment, but are visited by groups of pupils, with the teachers in the centres working in conjunction with the class teacher concerned. In January 1999 all Field Studies Centres were renamed Environmental Education Centres.
Evening Continuation School (1911-1945)
A school designed to provide a vocational education for boys and girls of 14 or more, who had completed their primary education. Evening Continuation Schools began in 1911, offering a two-year course conducted for two hours on three nights each week. There were at first three types of schools: Junior Technical (known as Artisan until November 1912), for boys learning trades; Commercial, for boys entering business; and Home Science, for girls. A fourth type emerged in 1912, the Independent Preparatory School designed to overcome the defective elementary education some children had received. In 1946 Evening Continuation Schools were converted into Evening Colleges; their orientation has been towards adult non-vocational or leisure interests, and they have not been included in this work.
Evening Public School (1880-1915)
A school which first emerged in 1880 to provide an elementary education for persons over 14 years of age who had previously received no education, or very little. Evening Public Schools offered young men (very few females were ever enrolled) two hours of instruction three nights a week. They were usually conducted in the local Public School building by the headmaster or another competent teacher. Most of them were poorly attended and short lived and they were rapidly replaced from 1911 with Evening Continuation Schools.
