NRS-18568 | Register of admissions [Selly Oak Provisional School / Tenterden Provisional School [III] Tenterden Public School [II]]

Full description

The purpose of an admission register was to record basic details about children admitted to the school and 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 student including: date of admission; pupil's name; date of birth; home address, religious denomination; name of previous school and date of leaving. Also recorded was information 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 also made in the book to record any occupation entered into by a pupil on leaving school. The column was normally used to record the school to which a pupil may have transferred, and in the majority of cases this meant going to the High School.

After Selly Oak Provisional School closed in September 1945, the same volume was used to record enrolments in the Tenterden Provisional School 1946 to 1965.