January, 1913
7th | Re-opened School. All children on the books present. |
9th | The Attendance Officer visited. |
10th | All the children attended quite regularly during the week, but one boy lost his mark through coming late in the afternoon. |
13th | The Vicar visited in the afternoon. |
14th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
15th | The School Attendance Officer visited. |
17th | The Vicar visited & taught. One child absent for four days with a bad cold – all other children attended regularly. |
21st | The Vicar visited & taught. |
23rd | The School Attendance Offcier visited. |
24th | The Vicar & a lady visited in the afternoon. |
28 | The Vicar visited & taught. |
30 | The Vicar visited & taught. The School Attendance Officer visited. |
31 | A half-holiday was given in the afternoon because of a concert being held in the school-room in the evening. |
February, 1913
3rd | The School Attendance Officer visited. |
4 | Checked Registers and found them correct. H.R. Humphreys. / |
7th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
10th | The School Attendance Officer visited. |
11th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
13th | Dr. Dunn, Medical Officer & a nurse visited at 2 o’clock & examined seven children. |
14th | The Vicar visited in the morning & afternoon. |
17th | A holiday was given on the occasion of Mr. Reginald Abel Smith’s marriage, & also for good attendance during the preceding month. |
18th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
21st | The Vicar visited & taught. |
22nd | A Manager’s Meeting was held in the school-room at 4 o’clock. |
24th | The Attendance Officer visited. |
25th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
27th | The Assistant-teacher Miss G. Nightman was absent through illness. |
28th | The Vicar visited & taught. Miss Nightman absent again. |
March, 1913
3rd | Miss G. Nightman absent through illness. |
4th | The Vicar visited & taught. Miss Nightman still away. |
5th | Miss Nightman returned to school. |
6th | The Attendance Officer visited. |
7th | The Vicar visited & taught. The Attendance of children reduced by illness |
10th | To-day eleven children were absent through illness. |
11th | Several children still absent. The district nurse attended & took names of children who were ill. |
11th | In the afternoon the school was visited by H. M. Sub-Inspector, J. Marsh, Esq. The Vicar visited. |
14th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
17th | Attendance much improved, but still a few children absent through illness. |
18th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
19th | The school closed in the afternoon for the Easter holidays. |
April, 1913
1st | Re-opened school. All children on the books present. The Vicar visited in the afternoon. |
4th | The attendance was perfect during the past week. |
“ | The Vicar visited. |
8th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
9th | The Attendance Officer visited. |
11th | The Vicar visited & taught. Attendance very good all the week. |
14th | The Diocesan Inspector, the Rev. Basil J.M. Reay visited from 2.30 to 3.45 & examined the children in Religious Knowledge. The Vicar was present. All the chilren attended. |
15th | All children present. The Vicar visited. |
17th | The School Attendance Officer visited. |
18th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
21st | All children present. |
22nd | The Vicar visited & taught. |
23rd | The School Attendance Officer visited. |
25th | The Vicar visited & taught. Attendance very good all the week. |
29th | The Attendance Officer visited. |
May, 1913
1st | The afternoon lesson began at 1.30 at the request of the girls who visited “Maying. “ |
2nd | The Vicar visited in the morning. |
5th | All children present. |
6th | The Attendance Officer visited. |
7th | The Vicar visited in the afternoon. |
9th | E. N. Nix, Esq. His Majesty’s Inspector , visited the school at 9 a.m. The Vicar visited in the afternoon. School closed in the afternoon for Whitsun Holidays. |
14th | Re-opened school. All children present. |
16th | The Vicar visited. – also the Attendance Officer. Children made perfect attendance during the week. |
19th | The Attendance Officer visited. |
20th | The Vicar visited. |
22nd | Twenty of the elder children were taken to the Missionary Exhibition at Ware in the morning, & in the afternoon there was a half-holiday in honour of Empire Day. |
25th | The School Attendance Officer visited. The Vicar visited. Two children were sent home because of “ringworm.” |
26th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
30th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
June, 1913
2nd | The Attendance Officer visited. |
3rd | Checked the Registers & found them correct . H.R. Humphreys. |
6th | The Vicar visited & taught. One boy absent all the week on account of an accident to his hand, & two other children away with ringworm. |
9th | The Attendance Officer visited. All children present except one boy. |
11th | The District Nurse visited & inspected all the children. |
12th | A half-holiday given in the afternoon for good attendance during the preceding month. |
13th | The Vicar visited & taught from 9.15 to 9.45. |
16th | All children present. |
17th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
19th | The School Attendance Officer visited. |
20th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
23rd | The school attendance officer visited in the morning, & the Vicar and the Rev. in the afternoon. |
24th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
27th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
30th | The Vicar visited. |
July, 1913
1st | Dr. Dunn visited. |
2nd | The Vicar visited. |
3rd | The Attendance Officer visited. |
4th | All the children made perfect attendances during the past week. |
7th | The Vicar visited both in the morning and the afternoon. The attendance Officer also visited. |
8th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
9th | A holiday. The Hon. Mrs. R.A. Smith kindly invited twenty-four of the scholars & the teachers to spend the day at the Zoological Gardens, London. The Vicar & Mrs. Humphreys accompanied the party, & Mrs. R.A. Smith, Miss Iris Smith & Viscount Knutsford were present part of the time & helped all to thoroughy enjoy themselves. |
10th | School as usual. All children present. |
11th | The Vicar visited & taught. Perfect attendance was made by all the scholars during the week. |
14th | The Attendance Officer visited in the morning. Dr. Dunn, medical Officer of Health, visited in the afternoon & examined six children. |
17th | One infant absent through illness. |
18th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
21st | The Attendance Officer visited. |
22nd | The Vicar visited & taught in the morning & again visited in the afternoon. The District nurse visited. |
25th | The Vicar visited & taught. All the children made perfect attendance during the past week. |
29th | The Vicar visited & taught in the morning. In the afternoon the children had their annual treat at Goldings. |
30th | The Drawing Inspector visited from 9.10 to 11.30. The school closed in the afternoon for the Harvest Holidays. |
Scheme for Instruction during
the Year ending July 31st 1914
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Subjects Lower Division | Upper Division
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Reading. As many books as | Selections from Historical
‘ possible (general & continuous |& Geographical Readers.
‘ readers.) |One or two books (general)
‘ |Some continuous readers.
‘ |A separate reader for
‘ |each child.
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History Stories form Modern |The Stuart Period,
‘ English History (1485 to |& part of the Hanoverian
‘ the Present Time.) |Period.
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Geography Knowledge of the neigh- | Europe
‘ bourhood & of this county |
‘ Some knowledge of |
‘ England & Wales |
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Recitation St. 3. 2. 1. Alice Fell. (Wordsworth.) |Selections (Browning,
‘ Excelsior. (Longfellow) |Byron, Longfellow, Lyall,
‘ |Keats, Wordsworth.
‘ St. 1. 1. The little mushroom girl. |
‘ 2. Somebody’s Mother. |
‘ 3. We are Seven. |
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Writing St. 3. Abstracts of oral |Letter writing.
‘ & lessons. Descriptions of |Descriptions of local places
‘Composition local places & events. |& events, & natural objects.
‘ Composition on visible | Work done in home,
‘ objects. |garden & farm.
‘ (St. 1. 2.) On visible |Elementary hygiene.
. objects (chiefly.) |Abstracts of lessons in
‘ |History & Geogrphy
‘ Dictation. Transcription. |Transcriptions from memory.
‘ Copy books. |Dictation. Copy books.
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Arithmetic Scheme B. | Scheme B
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Map. drawing. St. 3. A map of England |Maps of Europe. and of
‘ Wales. |parts of it.
‘ St. 2. Plans of school- |
‘ room & playground. |
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Observation Lessons in Nature study |
lessons. hygiene, familiar |
‘ objects. |
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August, 1913
September, 1913
9th | Re-opened school after Holidays. All children on the books present. |
10th | The School Attendance Officer visited. |
12th | The Vicar visited in the afternoon. |
15th | The school Attendance Officer visited. |
16th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
19th | The Vicar visited & taught. The children made perfect attendances during the week. |
22nd | The School Attendance Officer visited. |
23rd | The Vicar visited. |
26th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
29th | The School Attendance Officer visited. |
30th | Checked the Registers & found them correct. H.R. Humphreys. |
October, 1913
3rd | The Vicar visited & taught. |
6th | The School Attendance Officer visited. |
8th | Dr. Dunn, Medical Officer of Health visited in the afternoon. |
13th | The School Attendance Officer visited. |
15th | Dr. Dunn, Medical Officer of Health visited. The Hon. Mrs. R.A. Smith visited. |
17th | All children present at school throughout the week. |
21st | The Vicar visited & taught. |
22nd | The Vicar visited in the afternoon. |
24th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
27th | The Vicar visited in the afternoon. |
28th | The Vicar visited in the morning & afternoon. |
31st | The Vicar visited & taught. Children attended quite regularly during the week. |
November, 1913
3rd | One child under five years of age absent with bad cold. |
4th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
6th | All children present. |
7th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
10th | The Vicar visited, & Mrs. Humphreys. |
11th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
13th | A holiday – given for good attendance durign the prededing months. |
14th | School as usual. The afternoon session began at 1.15 instead of 2 o’clock, because of the room being required. |
17th | Mr. M. Peet, School Attendance Officer visited. |
18th | The Vicar visited & taught. The School Attendance Officer again visited. |
21st | The Vicar visited. |
25th | The Vicar visited & taught. The Attendance Officer visited. |
28th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
December, 1913
2 | Checked the Registers and found them correct. H.R. Humphret=ys |
3rd | The Vicar visited in the afternoon. |
5 | The Vicar visited & taught. The children made perfect attendances during the week. |
10th | The Vicar visited in the afternoon. The Attendance Officer visited. |
12th | The Vicar visited & taught. |
15th | The Attendance Officer visited. |
17th | The girls, instead of doing their ordinary lessons had an examination in needlework, & competed for two prizes offered by Mrs. Humphreys. |
19th | The school was closed at the end of morning session for the Christmas Holidays. |
24th | All the children were kindly entertained in the evening in the schoolroom by the Hon. Mrs. Reginald Abel Smith, & given a Tree & many presents.Prize List for Attendance during theYear ending July 31st 1913.Children who made perfect attendance. Winifred Bygrave (Six years perfect attendance.) Elsie Farnham. Rose French. Ruth Dean.
Children who did [not] miss more than 10 times. Robert Hart. Lillian French. Florrie French. Daisy French. Alice Nash. Robert Wrangles. Gertrude Wrangles. Infants who made perfect attendance. Alfred Hart. Violet French. Infants who did not miss more than 15 times. Gertrude Hills. Iris French. Arthur French. William Nash.
The Hon. Mrs. R.A. Smith distributed the prizes at the Christmas Tree & gave an extra prize of one shilling to each child who made perfect attendances, and sixpence to each child who had only missed once. She also gave a silver watch chain to Winifred Bygrave for having completed the sixth year of perfect attendances. Mrs. Humphreys gave two prizes for needlework. |
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