The Family School
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The Family School at Larkhall was a small, alternative school, based in South London, UK, founded by Polly Griffiths in 2007/8 to offer a Democratic education model to primary age children. The school closed in December 2012.The Family School was firmly in the Free Schools tradition, with no set curriculum, working on the basis that children are natural learners, and that it is the school's job to provide a rich environment as a context and medium for that learning. The school aimed to support children as they developed towards becoming confident, competent and caring adults.
The founding documents of the school set out five principles, on the basis of which the school operated:
Support the Developing Child
Learning is part of Living
Family involvement is Fundamental
Ethical Consciousness and Action
Self GovernanceThe school was a charity, "reluctantly fee-paying", to quote its literature.
