Edington ScholarsEdington Scholars is a one-day-per-week set of secondary classes, available a la carte. It includes morning prayer, memory work/recitation, feasts, and in the spring, classes in etiquette and protocol leading up to an event. Core classes include humanities, science, and Bible. Other classes offered include Rhetoric, Logic, and occasionally others. Assignments are sent home each week in each subject. There are two broad levels offered:
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The Battle of EdingtonAt the Battle of Edington, an army of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex under Alfred the Great defeated the Great Heathen Army led by Guthrum on a date between 6 and 12 May AD 878, resulting in the Treaty of Wedmore later the same year. Primary sources locate the battle at "Ethandun" or "Ethandune", and until a scholarly consensus linked its location with the present-day Edington in Wiltshire it was known as the Battle of Ethandun, a name which continues to be used. |