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Reference NoCA/25/2/11/122
TitleAberdeen School Board Teachers' Letters (101)
Description3/11/1911-31/12/1911

J.D Anderson, FerryHill public School, November 21st 1911- discussion over claims under act 19.7, regards the need for a medical note before return to school
J.D Anderson, FerryHill public School, December 19th 1911- details the number of pupils within a class
Lizzie Anderson, Holburn Street Public School, December 11th 1911- details the number of pupils within a class
James Campbell, Holburn Street Public School, November 29th 1911- response to a letter written by Mr John Munro making a complaint about certain pupil’s behaviour
James Campbell, Holburn Street Public School, December 4th 1911- regarding an inspectors deduction that the school should have an additional supplementary class
James Campbell, Holburn Street Public School, December 18th 1911- expresses the plan to form a new supplementary class until the boards decision is made
James Campbell, Holburn Street Public School- outlines the inspectors judgments in detail regarding the school and supplementary classes in particular
James Campbell, Holburn Street Public School, December 20th 1911- refuses to admit a pupil due to prior misdemeanours at his former school
Duncan Clark, Victoria Road Public School, December 13th 1911- requests the boards permission to form a fourth supplementary class following the inspectors judgment
J.Cumberland, Mile-end Public School, December 19th 1911- discusses class sizes
A. Dunbar, Grammar School, November 14th 1911- outlines teacher at the school, Mr Morgan’s, qualifications
Alexander Forbes, Ruthrieston Public School, November 17th 1911- outlines an accident in the school that ended with the loss of the first joint in a boys finger
Alexander Forbes, Ruthrieston Public School, December 4th 1911- discusses the poor behaviour of a pupil, calling him an ‘intolerable nuisance’
Alexander Forbes, Ruthrieston Public School, December 4th 1911- discusses the poor behaviour of a pupil, calling him an ‘intolerable nuisance’
A.Green, Skene Square Public School, November 7th 1911- details a staff members continued absences and requests a substitute
John Loch, Walker Road Public School, December 24th 1911- includes Mr Crawford report on the school, including issues such as overcrowding in the infuser department with solutions to such
D.B Lothian, SunnyBank Public School, December 18th 1911- response to the boards request for no more pupils to be admitted in a specific period, outlining potential educational and financial ramifications
D.B Lothian, SunnyBank Public school, December 18th 1911- reports the outcomes of the head teachers association
D.B Lothian, SunnyBank Public school, December 18th 1911- outlines the schools capacity and suggests ways to prevent a decreased grant to the school
John McKenzie, Ashley Road Public School, November 22nd 1911- inquires about changed school times for the winter months due to the number of pupils from outwith city boundaries
Duncan MacKenzie, George Street Higher Grade School, November 3rd 1911- includes an overview of Christian Shinas and Elizabeth Harpers time at schools
Duncan MacKenzie, George Street Higher Grade School, December 11th 1911- request for development to improve a classroom to accommodate the projected increase in new pupils in January
Margaret Quin, December 30th 1911- response to allegations made about her by a pupils parent
Will Robertson, Causewayend Public School, November 15th 1911- request to form an additional supplementary class with reasons behind this outlined
Will Robertson, Causewayend Public School, December 18th 1911- includes numbers of boys and girls leaving the school and when
Scottish Class Teachers’ Association (Aberdeen District), November 18th 1911- Statement from the teachers association regarding complaints about pay in connection to students in training
H. Simpson, Grammar School, November 1st 1911- Letter regarding fees for student teachers
Charles Stewart, Robert Gordon’s Technical College, November 17th 1911- discusses mandatory class sizes for sections of the School of Domestic Science
Charles Stewart, Robert Gordon’s Technical College, December 22nd, 1911- Discusses attendance of pupils, specifically naming James S. Milne, Alexander B. Ironside and William Simpson
David Symons, Central Higher Grade School, December 18th 1911- information regarding the ‘fourth international congress for art education’ and the decisions that followed
A.G Wallace, Central Higher Grade School, November 6th 1911- The departments letter in answer to the Board’s communication concerning the issues of ‘the teaching of commercial subjects in the intermediate department of the school’ and ‘The provision of post-intermediate courses for pupils other than Junior Students’
A.G Wallace, Central Higher Grade School, November 24th 1911- discusses attendance of pupils to the school and those not receiving the number of hours’ instruction in science
A. G. Wallace, Central Higher Grade School, November 24th 1911- discussion over a child names Alexander Buchan and the suggestion that he should be sent to this school for examination
A. G. Wallace, Central Higher Grade School, December 15th 1911- It is found that, the afore mentioned, Alexander Buchan is advanced in maths and French
Date1911
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