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Reference Number496.5 BA9360/Cab 20/Box 6/5 - 7
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/9/8/2/21
TitleSchool Board Correspondence, 1900
DescriptionBundle 5 covers January to April (112 items). Topics include: orders for school supplies; vacancies on board the Industrial Training Ship; changes to law re parents of absent children; facilities at schools including toilets at Hounds Lane; superannuation; blind school; needlework; salaries; prizegiving; corporal punishment; calendar; brochures and adverts; cookery at the Victoria Institute; Attendance Officer's uniform; blind and deaf school pupils; applications, resignations and testimonials for jobs; setting up of a 7th standard in schools; estimates and tenders for school maintenance and supplies; letters re Walter Williams punishment and violent behaviour; exemptions allowing children to leave school and work; and organising the annual treat for children and half-day holiday.

Bundle 6 covers May to September (120 items). Topics include: list of caretakers duties; applications, resignations and testimonials for jobs; absences of pupils; termination of Victoria Institute cookery classes; salaries; prosecution of parent over son's absence; tenders for school maintenance and supplies; labour certificates; parents' concern over child playing truant and keeping bad company; health of teacher; use of school as polling station during General Election.

Bundle 7 covers October - December 1899 (104 items). Topics include: applications, resignations and testimonials for jobs; salaries; request for boys' carpentry class and other matters concerning the syllabus; school maintenance, repairs and supplies; adverts and brochures; proposal to raise school leaving age to 14; prosecution of parent for son's truancy and placement of the boy in a "home''; prosecution of a traveller parent for hitting a teacher; measles outbreak; labour exams and certificates; and Penny Bank scheme.
Date1900
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