| Description | Arranged alphabetically by teacher's surname (majority of letters sent by the school's headteacher).
Appraisal work by volunteers is being carried out on this series: appraised files are identified at file level.
The following types of letter were retained:
- Job applications with detail about the applicant
- Letters about teacher's qualification
- Letters regarding school attendance or absences of children
- Letters concerning unusual use of school rooms
- Letters detailing the accommodation at the school
- Letters about recreation facilities at the school
- Letters about class sizes
- Transfer requests from teachers [as suggestive of unpopular schools?] or applications for promotion
- Letters about pupils at or admitted to Rubislaw Special School [no admission registers survive - these were the only letters I saw about school admissions]
- Details of text books or equipment
- Letters about Farquharson Kennedy Prize subjects
- Allocation of children to specific schools
- Issues with specific pupils or teachers esp. if corporal punishment involved
The following were weeded:
- Letters accompanying enclosures (SED forms, lists of applications, fees etc.) - enclosures not included in binders
- Letters about teachers' absences and cover arrangements
- Letters of acknowledgement
- Teachers starting duty
- Delivery of furniture
- Meeting arrangements (where held, who can attend etc.)
- Letters of resignation or acceptance of teaching posts [minuted]
- Application for use of school buildings for meetings
- Leaving certificate administration
- Orders of material or forms
Alphabetical paper dividers have been removed as they are damaging the paper: original alphabetical order retained. |