Reference
SDShelton1/1
Title
School logbook for Marston Shelton Board School, latterly known as Shelton Lower School (not indexed)
Date free text
26 February 1877 - 5 April 1950
Production date
From: 1877 To: 1950
Scope and Content
The first entry notes the admittance of 15 boys and 14 girls, of which four girls and four boys had knowledge of reading beyond the alphabet.
Also includes remarks on:
-attendance
-visits from the School Board
-admissions (in general terms)
-sickness amongst the children
-meetings of the School Board
-flooding in the playground (16 July 1880)
-summaries of school inspections
-the appointment of new staff
-songs being learnt by the children
-fees received from the relieving officer
-absence due to scarlet fever (1887-1888)
-poetry lists
-closure of the school due to an epidemic of scarlet fever (July 1892)
-closure of the school due to an outbreak of influenza (Jan 1894)
-a list of "conversational lesson" topics
-curriculum topics for the "lower division" and "upper division"
-absence due to ringworm
-absence due to chickenpox (1909)
-the boys' garden
-absence due to whooping cough and diptheria (1912)
-school closures due to holidays and the royal wedding in 1923
-Land Utilisation Survey (1931)
-staff absences
-poor behaviour (July 1942)
-air raid siren drills (1940)
-evacuee children in school (1939-1940)
-visits from the district nurse
Exent
1 volume
Level of description
item