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Reference Number496.5 BA9360/Cab 20/Box 5/1/339 - 625
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/9/8/2/17
TitleSchool Board Correspondence, 1897
DescriptionLetters to the School Board from various people and organisations. Bundle covering January to May includes matters such as the calendar; appointment of Alice Lloyds as Assistant Mistress; request to use Cherry Orchard School to raise funds for a new organ; Mrs Grisman's Academy; Britannia Square; labour certification exam; visit of attendance officers; repairs and maintenance work to school property and premises; loans; shoes for deserving poor; truant boys; medical certificates; absentees at St John's Boys' School; hazardous ice on New Road; Diphtheria; applications and testimonials for teachers and Pupil Teachers; impertinent mother; school supplies and equipment; children needed as breadwinners; estimates, tenders and adverts; legality of subscriptions; complaints regarding a govenor; resignations; enquiries regarding salaries; application to attend a scripture class; list of medals from Worcester Education Department; Leicester School Board regarding boy for Industrial School; cost per head for maintenance at Board Schools; rent of garden at Cherry Orchard; Superannuation Bill; examination of deaf children; unification of parishes; NSPCC; boy seeking work at Royal Porcelain Works; medical certificates; Jubilee and midsummer holidays.

Bundle covering June to September includes matters such as term dates; new code for schools; vagrant children; labour certificate exam; Jubilee celebrations; school doors opening outwards; Berrow's Journal; enquiry regarding cost of books; absences; loans and interest; home education; Headmaster's salary increase to £10; audit; closure of Cherry Orchard School; proposal to start day classes; Boys Band requesting half-day; workhouse children; repairs and maintenance plans for school holidays; Mason Science College regarding a pupil; permission for pupils to go hop picking; Diphtheria at Cherry Orchard School; sanitary work at Cherry Orchard School; tenders and adverts; prizes; General Purposes Committee minutes'; attendance officer; Home for unruly boys in Birmingham and child migration to Canada; furniture and supplies for schools; and Religious Knowledge exam.

The bundle covering October to December includes matters such as the private room for the Headmaster; applications and testimonials for job vacancies; goods sent in error; insurance; scripture and religious knowledge examination; cookery classes; cleaning and maintenance of the school; reference requests for former pupils; Hounds Lane extension; scholarship exam; entry procedures; absences; supplies and equipment; costs of educating Board children; lectures on hygiene; and School Board election.
Date1897
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