NRS-17224 | Registers of Admission, Progress and Withdrawal [The Junction 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.

This series contains information pertaining to each pupil including: date of admission; pupil's name, date of birth and 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 and date of leaving the school are also recorded. Provision is made to record any occupation entered into by the pupil on leaving school, but with the passage of time this column comes more and more to be used to indicate the school to which a pupil may have transferred.

The surviving volumes of the series contain girls’ enrolments from 1914 and boys’ enrolments from 1921. These volumes record admissions until the end of 1962, and the further progress of these pupils until the end of 1965. Girls’ and boys’ enrolments are recorded in separate volumes, reflecting the division of the school into distinct boys’ and girls’ departments during the period which these volumes cover. Entries prior to mid-1927 in the earliest surviving boys’ register have all been transcribed from a previous volume, whose whereabouts is now unknown, and consist only of those enrolments which were still current at the beginning of 1927.

Girls’ enrolments from 1914 to the end of 1932 are numbered in a single sequence, whereafter a new numbering system is adopted; the numbering begins anew at the commencement of each school year, and the last two digits of the year-number are added to the entry-number as a suffix. The earliest legible entry-number in the earliest surviving boys’ admission register is “333,” in January, 1921; this is comparable to the entry-numbers appearing at this point in the girls’ volumes, and it therefore seems likely that the numbering in use at this point for boys’ enrolments was commenced at the same time as the contemporary numbering of girls’ enrolments, viz., in 1914. Entries in the boys’ registers to the beginning of 1940 are numbered in one sequence ; at this point the numbering begins again, and entries from here to the end of 1948 are numbered in a single sequence. Thenceforth, the system already in use for the girls’ component of this series is employed in the boys’ volumes also.

Admission registers in paper format ceased in 1999 when the department moved to recording enrolment details in electronic format.