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Reference Number496.5 BA9360/Cab 20/Box 6/3 - 4
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/9/8/2/20
TitleSchool Board Correspondence, 1899
DescriptionBundle 3 (91 items) cover January to April 1899. Topics discussed include: death of teachers' mother; tenders for school supplies; tenders for extension to Hounds Lane School, window cleaning, etc; appointment and resignation of staff including pupil teachers; complaints re cleanliness of Hounds Lane School; applications for references; female insurance policies; problems re student Louisa Jones who has left school and gone to work as a domestic servant; poor health and malnourishment of Olive Hodges; and proposed formation of a secondary school board and whether women should be included.

Bundle 4 (139 items) cover May to December 1899. Topics include: requests from pupils to leave school early due to family circumstances; trip for teachers to Tintern; absences of pupils who are working or ill; missing 10 year old Ethel Ainsworth who has run off with the lodger; tenders for school supplies and maintenance; lectures and teaching of subjects both academic and moral; essay competition; half-day holiday; use of a room in Cherry Orchard for Harvest Festival; resignations, applications and salaries for staff; prizegiving; death of caretaker of Cherry Orchard School; suggestion of sending Edgar Fowler to an industrial school; Religious instruction and complaints about same; and education for deaf, dumb and blind children.
Date1899
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