NRS-16743 | Registers of Admission, Progress and Withdrawal [Dangarfield Public School]

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The purpose of an admission register was to record basic details about children admitted to the school, and about their parents or guardians. The registers were also used to record the progress of the children through various classes and the date of their leaving the school.

These volumes contain information pertaining to each pupil including: date of admission; pupil's name; date of birth; religious denomination; name of previous school and date of leaving. The following details are recorded about the child's parents or guardians: name, residence and occupation. The pupil's date of admission to each subsequent grade, date of leaving the school and any occupation entered into on leaving school is also recorded; this last column may also be used to indicate the school to which a pupil may have transferred. Girls and boys are listed on opposite pages in order of admission.

The series from Dangarfield Public School is represented now only by its last volume. This volume was commenced in February, 1933, but it begins with the enrolments, current at that time, of eight boys and ten girls, of whom the earliest had been admitted in 1925. These first entries were probably transferred from the previous volume in the series, whose whereabouts is not now known. The volume continues until the temporary closure of the school on the 26th March, 1956, recommences with its re-opening on the 2nd February, 1958, [1] and concludes with the school’s final closure in December, 1965. [2]

It may be observed that, of the pupils enrolled at the school before its first closure in 1956, four (three boys and one girl) returned at the beginning of 1958, along with eleven new admissions. The enrolments for 1958 were originally entered on the pages which had recorded the last admissions before the closure in 1956, but these entries are then copied to the next double-page opening following, and the record continues from there.

Admissions are numbered consecutively from the beginning of the volume until 1954, separate sequences being maintained for girls and for boys. Thereafter new sequences, still separate for gender, are commenced for each new school year, until 1965, when boys and girls are entered on the same page and numbered in the same sequence.

[1] The date of the first closure must be the day on which the greater number of those whose enrolments were current at the beginning of 1956 are all recorded to have transferred to other schools (pp 7-10). The date of the re-opening is recorded on p.11, and again at the head of p.12 and p.13.

[2] On or after the 16th of December, that being the day of the latest recorded transfer.