HMI Education 5 to 9 (1982)

(page numbers in brackets)

Preliminary pages (i-iv)
Contents, Tables, Preface

Chapter 1 (1-3)
Introduction
Chapter 2 (4-45)
The work of the schools
Chapter 3 (46-54)
The management of teaching arrangements and approaches
Chapter 4 (55-61)
Summary and conclusions

Appendix 1 (62-67)
Characteristics of the schools
Appendix 2 (67-78)
Statistical tables and note

Index (79-81)

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1982
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Notes on the text

Background

The 1967 Plowden Report Children and their Primary Schools recommended (in chapter 30, page 426, para. 1164) that surveys of the quality of primary schools should be conducted at least once every ten years.

In response, HMI produced, between 1978 and 1985, five surveys covering the whole school age range, of which this survey was one. The others in the series were:

1978 Primary education in England
1979 Aspects of secondary education in England
1983 9-13 Middle Schools
1985 Education 8 to 12 in Combined and Middle Schools

The text

The full text of the survey is online, including the Appendices.

The tables are presented here as images. Most are embedded in the text where they were in the printed version, but in Appendix 2 (Statistical tables and note) five of the tables are large and were printed sideways on the page. They are shown here as links: clicking on one opens a new window displaying the relevant table.

I have corrected a dozen or so printing errors and tidied up some inconsistencies, the most obvious of which is the numbering of the two Appendices. Throughout the main text and the Index these were referred to as I and II but they were actually numbered 1 and 2 so I have changed all the Roman numerals.

In the printed version of chapter 2 there were two paragraph numbering errors. There was no paragraph 2.51 - I have not attempted to correct this. But I have corrected the other numbering error: there were two paragraphs numbered 2.152. The first of these should have been 2.151 and it is numbered thus here.

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