NRS-17281 | Programme and Lesson Registers [Singleton Public School]

Full description

Each teacher maintained a programme and lessons register for their class. The programme register covered an academic year. There is an introductory page setting out the name of the school, the grade, the dates of the terms, the average age of the pupils, the name of the teacher and the date of assignment to the class. The volumes are sub-divided into terms. At the end of each term is an unstructured page headed “Remarks.” The programme is otherwise set out in pre-printed pages. At the left-hand edge of each verso page is a column marked with week numbers. There are normally three-page spreads for each term’s English, Mathematics and Social Studies programmes, and half- to one-page spreads for other subjects. With slight variations from year to year, the weekly programme is set out under the following subjects: English, Mathematics, Natural Science (or Nature Study), Social Studies (which may include Scripture), Music, Art and Handicrafts/Needlework (or Handwork), and possibly also Health Education, Physical Education, and Developmental and Creative Activities. The teacher completed lessons on all of these topics in the course of each week.

The series is currently represented by a single volume, which records the programme of teaching for the school’s 6A class in 1955. In this volume it is noteworthy that the fifth, sixth and seventh weeks of the First Term are marked “Flood Damage” and “No School,” and the eighth week takes up the lessons originally set down for the fifth week.

Custody History

This volume was received along with a quantity of records from Wallsend Public School. This is explicable by the circumstance that the teacher who took the 6A class at Singleton in 1955 became the Principal at Wallsend in 1958.