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Reference Number496.5 BA9360/Cab 20/Box 5/626 - 842
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/9/8/2/18
TitleSchool Board Correspondence, 1898
DescriptionLetters to the School Board from various people and organisations. Bundle covering January to July includes matters such as schemes to obtain information from Voluntary Schools to carry out the compulsory powers of the Education Acts;applications and testimonials for jobs; reference requests; estimates, adverts and tenders; opinions on the Worcester School Board Triennial Report; cookery classes for Roman Catholic Girls; attendance officer at St Peter's School; Training College advertisement for teachers of the deaf; sanitary work at Cherry Orchard School;election of governors; prizes, accounts; absences; salaries; loss of clothing from Cherry Orchard School; proposal that Headmasters should not send out enquiries during school hours for absentees; completion of works at Hounds Lane School; Pupil Teachers; lighting of classroom; medical certificates; maintenance and repairs to school premises, property and equipment; labour certificate exam; use of room for polling station at Hounds Lane; temporary alterations for cookery timetable; dispute over a boy tarting work; alterations to Cherry Orchard School and staff changes there; message of sympathy to H Gladstone;attendance officers opposition to fixed hours;vaccinations; omission to send duplicate registers from St Stephen's School; pupils going pea picking; Dunces certificates; rating of Board Schools; and prizes.

Bundle covering August to December includes matters such as the case of Hale vs Spackman (of the School Board); applications and testimonials for vacancies including that of attendance officer and teacher; financial contribution of the parents of deaf child Alfred Court; holidays and 'Fair Days'; Penny Bank books; repairs, cleaning and maintenance to school premises and property; continued sanitation problems at Cherry Orchard School; requirements of cookery class; absences; Kings Norton Union Workhouse requesting information on Albert Hull; tenders, adverts and estimates; school supplies and equipment including soap and firewood; transfer of Standard II boys from Infant School; costs of cookery teaching for Catholic girls; Father Lyon's unhappy at withdrawal of three Catholic children from religious instruction; Mrs Buckley's private school; extra cookery lessons; letter from Chief Constable regarding nuisances at Hounds Lane School; child withdrawn as mother does not wish her to mix with other children; scripture exam; grant for drawing; raising of exemption standard for labour exam; Education Acts manual;resignation; disrespectful conduct of B Ross; letter from Lord Beauchamp; and explanations as to why two girls failed an exam.
Date1898
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