NRS-16612 | Register of Admission [Redfern Public School]

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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.

Girls and boys are listed on opposite pages in order of admission. These registers contain information pertaining to each student including: date of admission; pupil's name; date of birth; 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, date of leaving the school and any occupation entered into on leaving school is also recorded. From 1983 the registers cease including the information about the pupil's progress through the various grades.

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

However, the school maintained an exercise book labelled 'Enrolments' for each year from 1994 to 2000 in order to have a local record of the information that was entered in electronic format.