Parents’ Union School Time Tables

Editor’s note: These harmonized Parents’ Union School time tables are taken from four sources:

1. A two-part article entitled “The Home Training of Children” by Henrietta Franklin, split across The Parents’ Review volumes 19 and 20 (1908 and 1909). Information unique to this source is in green and page numbers are prefixed with PR19 and PR20.

2. An earlier version of Henrietta Franklin’s “The Home Training of Children” which appeared in Special Reports on Educational Subjects, by the Board of Education (1900). Information unique to this source is in blue and page numbers are prefixed with BOE.

3. A booklet published by the PNEU in 1928 entitled A Liberal Education for All: The Practical Working. Information unique to this source is in orange and page numbers are prefixed with ALE.

4. An undated time table for Form V and VI which may be found in the Charlotte Mason Digital Collection (CMDC). The content of this table matches the content of the 1928 booklet (ALE p. 46), but the typography indicates it was a separate printing.

The correlation between Class numbers and Form numbers is confirmed by information found in Charlotte Mason’s School Education (1989c).

Form I (Class I)

Source: PR19 p. 899, BOE p. 492, ALE p. 42

	M.	T.	W.	Th.	F.	S.
9.0—9.20	Old Testament	New Testament	Writing* History	Old Testament	New Testament	Week’s Work
9.20—9.40	Printing* Geography	Drawing* Natural History	Reading	Reading	Reading	A History B Reading
9.40—9.50	Repetition Poem* Bible	Repetition Parable* Poem	Continue Reading* Repetition Bible	Continue Reading* Number	Repetition Hymn	Continue Reading* Writing
9.50—10	French	Picture Talk* Writing	French	French	Natural Hist.* Picture Study	Object Lesson* French
10.0—10.20	Number	Handicrafts	Number	Handicrafts	Number	Number* Handicrafts
10.20—10.35	Drill or Dancing*	Sol-fa	Drill or Dancing*	French Song	Drill or Dancing*	Sol-fa
10.35—10.50	Drill or* Dancing or Play	Play or Drill	Drill or* Dancing or Play	Play or Drill	Drill or* Dancing or Play	Play or Drill
10.50—11.10	Tales	Number	Geography	Tales	Natural History	Number
10.50—11.20* 11.10—11.20	Reading* Writing	Number* Drawing	Handicrafts	Writing and* Brush-Drawing	Handicrafts	Printing and* Brush-Drawing
11.20—11.30	Natural Hist.* Reading	Reading	Geography* Writing	Number* Writing	Geography* Writing	Natural Hist.* Reading

* = Common to PR19 and BOE

Form II (Class II)

Source: PR20 p. 23, BOE p. 495, ALE p. 43

For further confirmation that Form II is equivalent to Class II, note that  the age ranges given in Mason 1989c p. 288 correspond to the age ranges given in the programmes for Form II.

	M.	T.	W.	Th.	F.	S.
9.0—9.20	Old Testament	New Testament	Natural History Citizenship	Old Testament	New Testament* Picture Study	Week’s Work* New Testament
9.20—9.50	Arithmetic (oral & written)	Arithmetic (oral & written)	English Hist. Arithmetic National History	Arithmetic (oral & written)	Arithmetic or, II.A (2nd year) Geometry or Algebra	Arithmetic (oral & written)
9.50—10.20	Dictation and Writing	Natural Hist. Composition English Grammar and Parsing	Dictation and Transcription	Grammar* French History	Plutarch’s* Greek Lives	A Latin B Dictation and Writing
10.20—10.50	Drill and 10m.* Play	German Song English Song* and 10m.* Play	Drill and 10m.* Play	French Song and 10m.* Play	Drill and 10m.* Play	Sol-fa and 10m.* Play
10.50—11.0	Repetition Poem	Repetition Bible (O.T.)	Repetition Bible* Poem	Repetition Poem* Map of the World	Dictation* Repetition Bible (O.T.)	Repetition Week’s Work
11.0—11.20* 11.0—11.30	Geography	English History*	Geography	French History* English Grammar and Analysis	Grammar* Natural History	Nature Lore Botany A General History B History
11.20—11.30*	Writing Copy-books	Writing Copy-books	Writing Copy-books	Writing Copy-books	Writing Copy-books	Dictation*
11.30—12.0	French	A Latin B Dictation and Writing	French* Reading	Reading* French	German Latin A Arithmetic B Dictation and Writing	French

* = Common to PR20 and BOE
* = Common to BOE and ALE
* = Common to PR20 and ALE

Form III-IV (Class III)

Source: PR20 p. 25, ALE pp. 44-45

For further confirmation that Form III-IV is equivalent to Class III, note that the age ranges given in Mason 1989c p. 286 correspond to the age ranges given in the programmes for Forms III and IV.

	M.	T.	W.	Th.	F.	S.
9.0—9.20	Old Testament	New Testament	Natural History [FIV:] Hygiene and Physiology	Old Testament	New Testament [FIII:] Picture Study [FIV:] Picture Study & Architecture	Physical Geography New Testament
9.20—9.50	Arithmetic (oral & written)	German Geometry or Arithmetic	Arithmetic Citizenship	English Grammar Arithmetic (oral & written)	Euclid Geometry	Arithmetic (oral & written)
9.50—10.20	Dictation and Writing	Composition English Grammar and Parsing	Dictation Algebra	Reading General History	Greek or Roman Lives Plutarch’s Lives	Latin
10.20—10.50	Drill and 10m. Play	German Song English Song and 10m. Play	Drill and 10m. Play	French Song and 10m. Play	Drill and 10m. Play	Sol-fa and 10m. Play
10.50—11.0	Repetition Poem	Repetition Bible (O.T.)	Repetition Euclid Poem	Repetition Poem Latin	Repetition Bible (N.T.)	Repetition Week’s Work
11.0—11.20 11.0—11.30	Geography	English History	Latin Geography	English Hist. English Grammar and Analysis	English Grammar [FIII:] Botany [FIV:] Natural History	Botany General History
11.20—11.30	Arithmetic (Mental)	Arithmetic (Mental)	Map Questions	Arithmetic (Mental)	Writing	Euclid
11.30—12.15	French	Latin	Italian Literature	French	Italian or German	Italian French
12.15—1.0 12.15—12.45	Botany Reading	Geology General Science	French Hist. Italian or German	Physiology [FIII:] Dictation and Writing [FIV:] Geology	Geography Composition	English Grammar Geography

Form V-VI (Class IV)

Source: PR20 p. 26, ALE p. 46

For further confirmation that Form V-VI is equivalent to Class IV, note that (a) “every-day morals” appears only in programmes for Forms V and VI, and (b) the age ranges given in Mason 1989c p. 294 correspond to the age ranges given in the programmes for Forms V and VI.

	M.	T.	W.	Th.	F.	S.
9.0—9.30	Old Testament	New Testament	Latin Algebra	Old Testament	New Testament	Physical Geography
9.30—10.0	Arithmetic	Euclid	French	Arithmetic	Euclid	Algebra
10.0—10.40 10.0—10.25	Geology, etc.	Composition Literature	Literature Composition	Astonomy	Every-day Morals and Economics	Latin French
10.40—11.0 10.25—10.50	Drill Singing	Drill Singing	Drill Singing	Drill Singing	Drill Singing	Drill Singing
11.0—11.45 10.50—11.30	Literature	English History	Geography	English History	Grammar	Botany
11.45—12.15 11.30—12.15	Botany Biology, etc.	Algebra Latin	European Hist. General History	Every-day Morals and Economics	Geography	Grammar
12.15—1.0	French	German or Italian	Italian Latin	French	German or Italian	Italian Latin

References

Franklin, H. (1900). The Home Training of Children. In Special Reports on Educational Subjects, volume 6 (pp. 485-497). London: Wyman and Sons.

Franklin, H. (1908). The Home Training of Children. In The Parents’ Review, volume 19 (pp. 890-899). London: Parents’ National Educational Union.

Franklin, H. (1909). The Home Training of Children. In The Parents’ Review, volume 20 (pp. 20-26). London: Parents’ National Educational Union.

Mason, C. (1989c). School education. Quarryville: Charlotte Mason Research & Supply.

Parents’ National Educational Union. (1928). A liberal education for all: The practical working. London: Parents’ National Educational Union.

undated time table for Form V and VI from the Charlotte Mason Digital Collection (CMDC).