Held at: | Private collection |
Reference: | Research |
Source: | Joan Davies |
Title: | Newton School, Extracts from the Log Books |
Place name: | Newton |
Date: | 1893 - 1961 |
Description:
The Log books and registers that were maintained at the Infant and Senior schools of Newton are now deposited at the Hereford Record Office. The catalogue entry being AA90/1-5. The logbooks comprise 4 volumes those for 1893-1900, 1908-1919, 1919-149 and 1949-1961. There is also a separate Admissions register. There are some access restrictions regarding the later items.
Joan Davies who was a one time pupil of the school has compiled the following extracts from the archives.
From the 1891 census the population of Newton is given as 223 persons from 55 homesteads. But the children attending the school would also have come from the surrounding parishes
Date | Extract from School Log |
9-01-1893 | School opened, but no attendance due to snow |
30-01-1893 | Number of children present 85 |
2-03-1893 | Present 87 |
1-05-1893 | No school due to a Fair being held at Ewyas Harold |
5-05-1893 | Miss Harris, Infants teacher. Rooms are too white for the children |
15-09-1893 | A ‘Tea Treat’, with sports and prizes held in Mr Jenkins’s field across the road from the school. |
| Harvest time, children apple picking, Threshing Machine ( steam powered) in the Area, Harvest Festival. Typhoid Fever about |
19-12-1893 | Very wet. Not one child at school |
| Object lessons for 1894. Dictation and Drawing. |
1894 | Teachers - Mr W. and Mrs R. Morgan. Illnesses; Flu, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Chicken Pox |
1895 | Staff – Mr W Morgan Headmaster, Mrs R. Morgan sewing, Miss Rosa Lloyd, Miss A Watkins ( replaced by Celia Cole) |
11-07-1899 | New style handwriting (Nelson) introduced |
22-09-1899 | Mr Morgan request for a new Trap House and stable to be built –granted |
22-07-1901 | Holiday, St Margarets Church Choir treat |
10-02-1903 | Gramophone entertainment here last evening. Proceeds for Newton P.M Sabbath School. Subsequently some youths nearly set the buildings on fire, they fined £1 with 15/- costs at Abbeydore Magistrates Court |
20-11-1905 | School closed on death of Headmaster Mr W. Morgan from acute pneumonia |
28-11-1905 | Thomas Lewis, Temporary Headmaster |
15-01-1906 | Mr and Mrs Harwood take temporary charge of School |
5-02-1906 | Charles Lloyd Headmaster, Miss Caroline Ann Lloyd Infant and sewing teacher |
11-06-1906 | 87 children on school roll |
28-06-1906 | Holiday for Newton Church Restoration Fete - rains the whole day! |
| Market day at Abergavenny keeps children away |
4-06-1910 | Appointment of Miss May Jordan, teacher |
1919 | Mr Jones Smith and Mrs D.B. Smith Acting Headmaster and wife |
1-03-1920 | Mr & Mrs Ingham arrived |
13-06-1921 | Mr and Mrs Ingham left |
23-05-1921 | John Lancaster appoined Headmaster |
18-12-1921 | Mary Williams appointed Infants teacher |
1923 | Accommodation – Big Room 58, Class Room 34 |
30-05-1927 | John Lancaster Headmaster retires |
4-01-1932 | Annie Dunnabin, teacher commenced duties |
1-04-1938 | C Price temporary Headmaster left |
8-01-1940 | 54 infants, 59 seniors on roll, total 113 children |
23-09-1940 | Miss Evelyn Willitts appointed Head Teacher |
12-05-1941 | 45 Evacuees from Bootle accompanied by 2 teachers Miss Keeley and Miss Moore |
13-05-1941 | Another evacuee teacher, Miss Menard |
14-05-1941 | 4 more evacuee children and Mrs Fleming |
15-05-1941 | 14 more evacuee children |
16-05-1941 | Mr Kermode evacuee teacher, 68 evacuees in all |
20-05-1941 | 51 Newton children and 56 evacuee children on roll |
14-11-1941 | ‘Points’ Ration Books distributed by special sub-office at school |
25-05-1945 | School Concert |
15-06-1945 | Miss Willitts leaves [to be married to Mr Tovey the Attendence Offficer] |
23-07-1945 | Mrs Margaret Crowte appointed acting headteacher |
1-11-1945 | Barbara Watkins |
30-10-1945 | Mary Cole left to be married |
4-11-1945 | Joan Loadman appointed inplace of Mary Cole |
1-05-1947 | H. Bosley appointed Headmaster |
1961 | School closed |
Observations:
Ref: gc_nwt_2065