NRS-17576 | Register of admission, progress and withdrawal [Walleroobie 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. Pupils' records were numbered sequentially, with early volumes having different sequences for boys and girls, and new sequences beginning each year. From the late 1950s, children were entered into new registers in order of admission, regardless of gender.

Volumes contain information pertaining to each pupil, including: date of admission; pupil's name; age in years and months; religious denomination; name of previous school and date of leaving; the pupil’s parents’ or guardians’ name, residence and occupation; the pupil’s date of admission to each subsequent grade or class; and the date which the pupil left the school and any occupation entered into on leaving school. This last column was also used to record other schools to which pupils may have transferred.