| Description | Selection made from original letter binder (see series level for appraisal criteria):
- Extenuating circumstances for Central Secondary School teacher's absence/pay (Alexander Simpson);
- List of Nazareth house boys transferred to St Mary's RC from Queen's Cross;
- Application for post at St Margaret's Episcopal School from Douglas Pyle; for headship at Hanover St from J.A. Boyle and Allan Brown; for post at Sunnybank from Mabel Brown; for infant mistress post from Isabella Coutts, Clara Duthie, Isabella Dean, Margaret Ferguson, Annie Smith and Helen Urquhart; for headship at St Mary's R.C. School from Joseph Durnin; Domestic Science post at the High School for Girls from Elise Falconer; first assistant grade by Alexander Forbes, Herbert Hutcheson; for headship by Oliver Lawrence and Gordon Stewart; for larger responsibility payment for the Powis Technical Department Head Andrew Sharp;
- fire watching arrangements [during the Second World War] and lists of national service for male members of staff for various schools;
- Grammar School: public bath facilities; appraisal of Dr Ernest Bermann's work; manual instruction teaching arrangements;
- Victoria Road School: request for application for exemption from war work for janitor; air raid siren being inaudible;
- Frederick Street Junior Secondary: suspension of named pupil [DPA];
- Linksfield School: fire watching arrangements with Northern Cooperative Society;
- Rosemount Junior Secondary: allocation of sweets for shelter use being used up by Skene Square; attendance issues at the school - pupil working [DPA]; inventory of clothing received from American Red Cross; issues with sharing offices whilst Skene Square being used by military authorities (makes reference to having to "act Jim Crow daily");
- Ferryhill School: films to be used at local schools;
- Waste paper collection prize winners;
- ship adoption scheme (Middle, Ruthrieston and Powis Junior Secondaries)
- Rubislaw-Ruthrieston Special School: mistreatment of pupil by her mother [DPA];
- Walker Road School: supposed punishment of pupil [DPA]; waste paper collection competition; arrangements in case of invasion;
- Education Committee's stance on marriage of teachers in war time, enquiry from Peploe Holm;
- Holburn St School: room for teachers library; air raid arrangements;
- Skene Square school: response to proposal to carry out Moray House Tests on pupils; shared occupancy of Rosemount school;
- Mile End School: arrangements for admitting refugee [DPA];
- Central Secondary School: appraisal of Dr Bermann's work; applications for pupils to leave midway through their course [DPA]; fire watching arrangements including boys volunteering and girls indignation at not being asked; swimming arrangements; arrangements for leaving certificate candidates; arrangements for entrance examination;
- Woodside School: use of film in education; audibleness of sirens;
- Complaint re pay from teacher at Commercial Course at the Central School;
- High School for Girls: history teacher applications review; fee collection arrangements; swimming arrangements; evacuees from English schools;
- Sunnybank: repair of children's respirators;
- Powis Junior Sec.: attendances [DPA]. |