NRS-16906 | Register of Admissions, Progress and Withdrawal [Broken Hill Public School]

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.

The first volume of the series was used to record enrolments in the Broken Hill Junior Technical school.

From 1945 onwards boys and girls were entered in separate sequences.

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.

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

Reference

Government Schools of New South Wales 1848-2003. NSW Department of Education and Training 2003