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Reference NoAS/KS/arb/8
TitleArbuthnott School Board: Bundle of correspondence with the Scottish Education Department and the County Secondary Education Committee
DescriptionPapers include:
Medical Inspection expenses return sent by the Kincardine Secondary Education Committee, 1916/17, 1915/16, 1914/15, 1913/14, 1912/13, 1911/12, 1910/11.
List of Intermediate Bursaries applicants from Arbuthnott with marks, June 1918, June 1915, June 1912, June 1911
Letter from SED to Arbuthnott School Board about teachers salaries, 1917.
Circular 493 from the SED concerning the use of school children to harvest horse chestnuts for the war effort, 1917 (During the First World War the UK had a shortage of acetone required to produce cordite to manufacture firearms and artillery. A new process was devised to produce acetone from maize, but this reduced the amount of grain for human consumption, and horse chestnuts were fount to be a suitable substitute).
Scottish Office Circular on Reformatory and Industrial Schools, 1917.
Correspondence with Agricultural College, Aberdeen, on syllabus for Arbuthnott Continuation Classes, 1916.
Petition to Arbuthnott School Board for increase in salaries due to increased cost of living, 1916.
Arbuthnott School Board exemptions return, 1916.
Letter from SED re. enlistment of Arbuthnott Public School teacher for military service, 1916.
Draft census, 1913.
Letter from SED re. qualifications of woodwork teacher, 1913.
Letter from SED re. attendance rates of older pupils 1913.
Letter from SED re. proposed continuation class programme, 1913.
Letter from SED re. termination of woodwork continuation class noting its value in previous years, 1911.
Letter from Kincardine Secondary Education Committee re. grants scheme, 1911.
Letter from SED re. King George V's wish that children receive a week's holiday in honour of the coronation, 1911.
Return on powers and duties under the Education (Scotland) Act, 1908, 1911.
Census of households within two miles of school required by SED, 1911.
Notice from Kincardine Secondary Education Committee on medical examination of children, 26 August 1910.
Correspondence with SED re. lack of interest in district in a continuation class in English and citizenship, 1909.
Copy of SED Form A86 for woodwork continuation class, 1909.
Copy of letter to SED with election return, 1909.
Scheme of work for Arbuthnott cookery class, 1909.
Date1904-1918
Extent1 bundle
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