Aberdeen Town Council Education Committee: Teachers' Letters [197]
Selection made from original letter binder (see series level for appraisal criteria):
- application for transfer from Ethel M. Anderson;
- teacher doing forestry work for the war effort in her holidays;
- Hilton Primary: absences of teachers due to travel arrangements from Lerwick and suspected visit to fiancee; staff deployment onto civil defence work; assistance of pupils with ration books [most schools had a letter indicating how many they would be able to complete these have not all been retained if it is just a figure]; fire watchers; assessment of Wallace Jackson as a teacher;
- Skene Street: temperature in building; need for an assistant;
- Rosemount J.S. School: admission of evacuee from London [DPA]; damage to school gym from dancing and boy soldiers' boots at the weekend; report on teacher Hester Macdonald; fire guards; report on clerkess Bettina Marr, including accusation of theft [leaving to join ATS]; report on assistant art teacher Wallace Jackson; need for young rather than aged teachers in Domestic Science; underage work by named pupil at Milton's butchers [DPA];
- Torry J.S. School: theft of warden's equipment; fire wardens/watchers; condition of buildings;
- Robert Gordon's College: books for 51st Highland Division;
- Torry Nursery: visit of Queen and Princess Elizabeth; visit from Agricultural College students;
- St Peter's: essays on Czechoslovakia;
- Middle J.S.: firewatching;
- Ashley Road: size of infant classes;
- Victoria Road School: valediction of teacher Georgina S. Maitland; inadequate accommodation;
- St Margaret's Episcopal School: firewatchers list; opinions of staff on various war initiatives including ration books;
- Walker Road: ration books;
- Convent of the Sacred Heart: impact of evacuation on seating accommodation;
- Aberdeen High School for Girls: transfer of pupil from Aberlour Secondary with copy of form S.12 relating to the school;
- St Paul St.: use of school by Wardens; behaviour of pupil at dinners [DPA];
- Commerce St.: demand for nursery places in the district;
- Ruthrieston J.S.: ration books; newsletter for the 51st Highland Division;
- Oakbank: vegetable seeds send by the USA.
- Woodside: accommodation for infant classes;
- Mile End : letter of thanks at retirement from James McGregor;
- Frederick Street J.S.: Fire prevention officer;
Grammar School: travel arrangements for pupil [DPA]; panels for senior leaving certificates; evacuees from London; staffing; admission process for kindergarten child [DPA]; fire watchers; recommendation of Mary Adams for kindergarten post; query about residential institutions for challenging pupil; refrerence for James Henderson;
- High School for Girls: request for leave of absence for teacher Mrs Macmillan whose husband was wounded on service; salary scale alterations; evacuees from London; appeal against decision not to admit child; fruit picking for Agricultural Executive Committee; French Welfare Week; request to hae one ermine and one squirrel stuffed; Dr Mary Esslemont taking red cross lectures;
- Middlefield and Hanover St.: recommendations of names for AET Girls Home [DPA];
- Middlefield School: completion of huts and debris [from 1943 bomb] on playground;
- Hanover St.: letter of resignation of Dorothy Robertson on marriage - requests permission to continue teaching as fiance is in HM Forces;
- Linksfield: cases of children whose family are unwilling to put them forward for secondary exam because of financial circumstancs [DPA];
- Kittybrewster: firewatching; lack of suitable footwear;
- Sunnybank: firewatching and fire fighting; requisitioning of part of school by military;
- St. Clement St.: proposed additional class for pupils who are backward because of reduced school hours during the war.
- Seaton: letter of resignation of Mary Sutherland on marriage - requests permission to continue teaching; CV and references for headmaster William Stewart;
- Powis J.S.: paper economy; applicants for Technical Subjects (James Davie and William Riddell); anonymous letter regarding spelling of former pupil.
14 Feb - 21 Dec 1944