| Reference No | CA/25/2/11/217 |
| Title | Aberdeen Town Council Education Committee: Teachers' Letters [198] |
| Description | Selection made from original letter binder (see series level for appraisal criteria):
- Letter relating to reduction in school meal take up at Junior Secondaries, some attributing to reduction in mothers' employment;
- Defects in playground at Skene Street School;
- Underage employment of school boy at Wilburn Ltd (pupil at Rosemount Junior Secondary School) [DPA].
- collection of book levies at Junior Secondaries;
- need for extra teacher at Hanover Street School and unsuitability of man proposed as First Assistant there;
- appointment of Junior Assistant at Torry Nursery School and size of roll there;
- Intelligence Tests (St Mary's RC School);
- Injury to child at St Peter's RC School [DPA];
- Central Evening School: insufficient time for teachers to mark exam papers, damage to hairdressing equipment at Charlotte St. Centre and hairdressing equipment specifications;
- value of Miss Morrison as needlework teacher at Victoria Road School;
- child attending clinic for speech "defect" [DPA];
- staffing requirements at St Paul Street School;
- winner of Littlejohn prize at Skene Square School + Sir John Anderson Prize at Woodside School;
- complaint about staff absence at Broomhill School;
- Dux awardees at Woodside School;
- invitation to Central Secondary School jubilee performance with tickets;
- Grammar School: pupils at Speech Clinic [DPA]; requirement for pupils' assessment by Committee's psychologist "not merely because they are an embarrassment to the school but even more in the interest of the unfortuante children themselves for whom the years are slipping past without the help which an enlightened society should and could now give them"; transfer of pupil to Torry School because of home circumstances (mentions mother's employment at munitions) [DPA]; issues with infant time table during war time;
- Aberdeen High School for Girls Christmas Entertainment timetable; pupils for Speech Clinic [DPA};
- Staffing requirements at Sunnybank School;
- Grammar Evening School: desirability of shorthand examination. |
| Date | Nov - Dec 1944 |
| Extent | 1 folder |
| Open or Restricted Access | Restricted |
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