Vorlage:Infobox Person Julia Lloyd (13 April, 1867 – 7 April, 1955) was a British philanthropist and educationalist who opened Birmingham's first nursery school based on Froebelian principles.
Life
Lloyd was born in Wednesbury in 1867. She was the daughter of the ironmaster Samuel Lloyd and she went to school locally at the only school for girls, Edgbaston High School for Girls, in 1881. Lloyd was interested in the newly developed methods for teaching young children in kindergartens. In 1888 she studied under Caroline Bishop who had developed her own adapted ideas which she taught at the Froebel College in nearby Edgbaston. After this she worked in two different establishments.[1] Lloyd studied in Germany at the Pestalozzi-Froebel Haus from 1895 to 1896 and and then returned to work with Caroline Bishop.[2]
Birmingham's first nursery school
The Greet Free Kindergarten in Greet, Birmingham was in a room supplied by Geraldine Cadbury and it opened in 1904 using staff from Bishop's college in Edgbaston.[3] This was the first nursery school in Birmingham.[4] It was the initiative of Lloyd. The children grew their own vegetables, visited farms and used their own hands to turn the fleece from their pet lamb into knitted garments for the dolls house. In response to the first world war the kindergarten was renamed a nursery school.[4]
Bishop died in Exmouth.
Legacy
The Sully Oak Nursery School is still opened and it dates from the nursery school opened by Lloyd, Cadbury and Bishop in 1904.
References
- ↑ Ruth Watts, ‘Lloyd, Julia (1867–1955)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2013 accessed 1 Aug 2015
- ↑ The Beginnings of the Nursery School Movement in Birmingham, Julia Lloyd, p. 11, retrieved 1 August 2015
- ↑ Referenzfehler: Ungültiges
<ref>-Tag; kein Text angegeben für Einzelnachweis mit dem Namen odnb. - ↑ a b Selly Oak Nursery History, Retrieved 1 August 2015