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Reference Number496.5 BA9360/Cab 20/Box 3/5 - 8
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/9/8/2/13
TitleSchool Board Correspondence, 1893
DescriptionBundle 5 (99 items) covers January and February and includes letters to the School Board re prosecution for non-attendances; request for specimen readers; advert for diary, safes and typewriters; and a letter from the NUT re corporal punishment.

Bundle 6 (108) covers March to July and includes an anonymous note re teaching of cookery being a waste of time; non attendance; information on a 'Conference of School Boards' in Manchester; protest re abolition of attainment qualifications for children of school age; charges of poor teaching resulting in dunces and special meetings to discuss accusations and results of NUT meeting; letter from the Decimal Association; repairs; proposals to vaccinate children; ventilation problems; medical certificates; death of C H Birbeck the proprietor of Berrow's Worcester Journal; laying memorial stone of New British Schools; proposal for simultaneous holidays for schools; and purchase of portraits of the Duke of York and Princess May ready for the Royal marriage.

Bundle 7 (116 items) covers August to October and includes calendar papers; importance of evening classes as continuation of education; references for new attendance officers from Worcester Regiment; improvements to Hounds Lane School; provision of cookery rooms; trouble with non-contributors to Penny Bank scheme; salaries; estimates for coal; references for teachers; resignation of Sidney Bayliss, attendance officer; complaint against St Peter's Boys School re nonpayment of school pence; provision of evening continuation schools; children at Cherry Orchard school asked to leave at 9 years; proposed museum at Board Girl's School; letters re low attendance at St Peters Girls School; provision of books for scholarship pupil Emily Bladon; estimates for woodworking bench; notice of audit; offer from Julia Barnes, Girls' Grammar School, to teach at evening continuation school plus other applications; entry to Cheltenham College; and an advert for 'Infants Mistress' magazine.

Bundle 8 (75 items) covers November and December and includes HMI examination of schools timetable from Whitehall; letter re an article in the Echo about a dull child;timetable handbill for a continuation school; letter from School Board Association; meeting chaired by Harry Day of Cherry Orchard Residents; list or poor attendance at Wesleyan School; refectory charges and children being asked to pay for priviledges at St Peters School; new woodwork benches for evening classes; offer of loans at 3.5% for School Board extension; Town Clerk checking on children from workhouse attending school; letter from American Typing Machine Co; dilapidation of Hounds Lane Buildings; letter from Town Clerk re summons over a pupil named Eli Billington; blind children inspection; proposed four weeks holiday for schools; children's treat; letter from Dent, Allcroft & Co re necessity of labour certificate.
Date1893
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