Webster
1954 - 1966
The
Beginning of the ICS
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The
school was founded in1954 by a trained British teacher named Miss Webster and a
German lady, Helga Palmer. Before
that, Miss Webster was in Jerusalem, teaching at St. George’s School.
Archbishop Maclness encouraged her to open a school in Jordan. The
RAF donated prefabricated classrooms and a bungalow for the head teacher. |
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| The classrooms in a row |
The School when it first began
There
were 20-22 children when the school first started, it was very small. It was
located in a very small house near the Bishop School. The first European school
in Amman was the ICS French, German and American children came to the ICS
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Miss Webster
In
1965 Miss Webster left after being a teacher and head for 11 years. She taught
classes 5 and 6 before she left. |
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Miss Webster's visit in '93 (next of her Mrs Rais and Mr Clare) |
The School Building
The
ICS got the land from the British Council and the school building from the RAF
It was located on Rainbow street. The old concrete building was built by the
Jordanian Army.
[Note from the webmaster: so far, we have not found any good pictures of the school in those days.]
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Our
Trip to the Old Site of the ICS By Junior Three - 25th March 1996 This
morning our class got on the bus and went to the old site of the ICS We took
Wasfi Al Tal Road. We also went through the 3rd,2nd and 1st
circle. |
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When
we got there, we saw the wall that had the Bishop School’s football pitch on
the other side. Then we got off the bus and Mrs. Rais opened the green gate
which now has a lot of graffiti on it. Inside the green gate, we first saw the
concrete flat which is still standing, but all the glass windows and doors were
not there. We saw where the prefabricated classes used to be. We also saw where
the bungalow of the head teacher used to be. The plot of land belongs to the
British Council.
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