January, 1897
11th | Re-opened school. Eight children absent. |
15th | A monitor absent all the week owing to her mother’s illness. Children of Standard I. taught with St. II. & III. |
17th | Attendance better. Monitor still absent. St. I. II. II. taught as one class. |
22nd | Several children absent owing to snow-storm. |
29th | Children attended irregularly all the week owing to bad weather and colds. A holiday in the afternoon. |
February, 1897
1st | School as usual. Four girls of Class I. absent. |
3rd | School not opened to-day, as owing to the floods many children unable to get to school. |
4th | School as usual. |
5th | School closed on account of the floods. |
8th | School as usual. |
12th | Attendance very irregular all the week, chiefly owing to illness. |
19th | Both monitors absent all the week, as both of them have Influenza of a Typhoid type. Standard I. taught with Standards II. & III. Infants’ Class did not work exactly according to Time Table, as they were taught in the school-room. |
26th | Both monitors still absent. |
March, 1897
5th | School opened in afternoon at 2.15 instead of 2 o’clock. Both monitors still absent through illness. |
12th | Monitors absent all the week, also several children through illness. |
19th | Monitors absent all the week. Attendance small owing to illness. |
26th | The Rev. F.E.A. Jamieson visited. Monitors still absent. |
April, 1897
1st | Standards IV-VII. attended Class for Cookery in the morning. |
9th | Attendance better. Monitors still absent. |
12th | The Rev. A.R. Buckland, diocesan Inspector examined children from 2.15 to 4.30. |
15th | School closed in the morning for Easter Holidays. |
26th | Re-opened school. Monitors still absent, through illness. |
30th | The older scholars attended a Missionary Exhibition held at Christ’s Hospital, Hertford in the morning. Infants had a holiday. School as usual in the afternoon. |
May, 1897
10th | Examination in Drawing from 11.15 to 12.15 held by A. Taylor, Esq. Infants had a holiday. Registers not marked. |
14th | The senior monitor still absent. The younger monitor has left the village. |
21st | Inspection 2nd Visit W. Kefford |
25th | Accounts seen W.K. |
Poetical Extracts selected for Recitation for the Year ending May 31st /98
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St. I. II. III. Fidelity. Alice Fell. (Wordsworth.)
St. IV. – VII. The Passing of Arthur. (Tennyson.)
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List of Object Lessons for Standards I. II. III.
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1. Liquids & Solids. |16. Sponge.
2. Water. |17. Iron.
3. Plastic Bodies. |18. Cooper.
4. Clay. |19. Corn.
5. Gutta Percha. |20. Rice.
6. Soluble Bodies. |21. Maize.
7. Salt. |22. The cow.
8. Sugar. |23. Milk, butter.
9. Coal. |24. Cheese.
10. The dog. |25. The horse.
11. Dif: kinds of dogs |26. The monkey.
12. The sheep. |27. Flax Linen making.
13. The fig. |28. The daisy.
14. Parts of a plant. |29. Spring Flowers.
15. Clover. |30. Dew.
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Lessons for Infants’ Class.
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Animal Kingdom. Rabbit, dog, wolf, dormouse, brown bear, Poar bear, seal.
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Vegetable Kingdom. The oak-tree, daisy, potato, turnip, orange pepper.
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Mineral Kingdom. Slat, iron, clay.
Sundries. A general shop, sugar, tea, a pocket-handkerchief; rain.
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Scheme for Instruction in Geography for the Year ending May 31st /97.
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Standards I. II. III.
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The Cardinal points.
The size & shape of the Earth.
The Earth’s Motion.
Geog: Terms simply explained & illustrated by reference to Map of England.
A river.
Standards IV. to VIII.
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Physical and Political Geography of Scotland, Ireland, Hindustan and Ceylon.
Day and night and a few elementary lessons upon Latitude & Longitude.
Summary of Inspector’s Report.
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“This school is in excellent order. The instruction is on the whole intelligent and thorough.”
Principal Teacher. Martha Ryle – certified Teacher of then First Class.
Signed on behalf of the School Managers.
Fred E.A. Jamieson.
Correspondent.
June, 1897
1st | Re-arranged Standards and Classes. |
3rd | School closed in the afternoon for the Whitsuntide Holidays. |
14th | Re-opened school. Monitor returned to school. Attendance very good. |
17th | The Rev. F.E.A. Jamieson visited in the morning. A holiday in the afternoon – children had their Annual Treat at Goldings. |
22nd | ) Four days’ holiday given in honour of the Queen’s Jubillee. |
23rd) | ) |
24th | ) |
25th | ) |
July, 1897
2nd | Three children absent through illness. |
7th | The Rev. H.E. Selwyn visited in the afternoon. |
9th | Four children absent with sore throats. |
16th | Several children absent through illness. |
22nd | Dr. Turner, Medical Officer of Health, visited and said the school could be closed on account of diphtheria. |
August, 1897
September, 1897
13th | Re-opened school. Six children absent. |
24th | Two children absent all the week through illness, three others not yet returned to school. |
27th | All children present except two who are away from home. Children of Standards I. II. III. taught as one division. |
October, 1897
1st | Several children absented themselves from school in order to attend a Circus at Hertford. The Rev. F.E.A. Jamieson visited. |
6th | School visited by the Rev. J.W. Sharpe, Senior Chief Inspector, and E.M. Field Esq. H.M.I. The Rev. H.E. Selwyn and the Rev. F.E.A. Jamieson were present during the visit. |
18th | A holiday given for children to spend their Club money. |
30th | Attendance better – one child absent with Measles. |
November, 1897
December, 1897
9th | A holiday in the afternoon because of a Concert being held at Goldings. |
23rd | The Rev. F.E.A. Jamieson visited. Attendance small all the week |
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