That is the inscription on top of the school but today the school houses also secondary classes. With modern families having fewer and fewer children the need for many elementary – we call them primary - schools has been replaced by the need for more secondary schools, hence the school has been transformed to take both junior and senior classes of children living in Sliema. I used to come to this school hundreds of years (a bit less .. haha) ago.
Built between 1905 and 1910, this is one of the earliest primary schools to be purposely built on the island for up to the late nineteenth century. Elementary schools in small towns and villages at the time were still accommodated within large townhouses. The design if of the Sliema Elementary School is by Maltese architect: Andrea Vassallo.
Thank you so very much for looking and for your lovely comments on yesterday's picture.
Fine architecture! In Russia we have such kind of old buildings only at central cities. Interesting story about education in your country and, of course, a very nice illustration for it.
