| Description | Selection made from original letter binder (see series level for appraisal criteria):
• J. Beaumont. Head Teacher. Commerce Street School. Letters dated 14, 15, 16, 20 & 22 September 1892. Letters to the School Board to report on the measles outbreak in the school, including the percentages of consequent absences.
14 September
Infant Department 16%
Rest of the school 7.2%.
15 September
Infant Department 18.9%
Rest of the school 7.2%
16 September
Infant Department 18.9%
Rest of the school 7.6%
• James Campbell. Head Teacher, Frederick Street Public School. 23 August 1892. Letter to the School Board requesting instructions regarding blind pupils as “instructing blind children is taking up too much attention from the regular work of the school. Two children named as attending the school were Isabella McKay and William Guyan. An application for a third child of the surname Paterson, 33 Shuttle Lane had been received but admission had been deferred pending instruction from the School Board.
• Mary R. Cassie. Teacher, Porthill School. 29 August 1892. Letter to the School Board requesting a transfer to be nearer her home address of 29 Hamilton Place.
• W. C. Farrell. Head Teacher, Ruthrieston Public School. 31 August 1892. Letter to the School Board regarding numbers of pupils. Mr Farrell highlights that the school accommodated 265 pupils and there were 333 pupils on the register with a further 23 pupils refused admission.
• George Forrest. Head Teacher, St Andrew Street Public School. Letter to the School Board requesting permission to refuse admission to Jemima Donnelly, Mealmarket Street. Mr Forrest had set Jemima an Arithmetic examination and found she had no idea whatever of the rules relating to the fifth standard.
• James Findlay. Head Teacher, St Clement Street School. 13 September 1892. Letter to the School Board to say that, as requested by the Board, he had called a meeting of Head Teachers to consider the Board’s Scheme of Central Evening Classes for pupil teachers.
• Alexander Forbes. Head Teacher, Marywell Street Public School. 14 September 1892. Letter to the School Board regarding a complaint by a parent, Mrs Chilton, about her daughter being belted. Mr Forbes dismisses the complaint and adds that Mrs Chilton is has complained more often than any other parent in the school. Mr Forbes justifies the use of the tawse and discredits any alleged marks that may have been made.
• Mary Gillanders. Teacher, Albion Street Public School. 12 September 1892. Letter to the School Board requesting a transfer to “some other school.” The reasons are not given but Ms Gillanders advised she would be willing to undertake teaching of cookery.
• John Gordon. Teacher, Girls’ High School. 18 June 1892. Letter to the School Board to request that an application be made on his behalf to attend a Life Class, National Art Training School, South Kensington. The class was opened to a limited number of students and teachers from provincial schools and Mr Gordon hoped he would be selected.
• Gustav Hein. German Teacher, Girls’ High School. 1 September 1892. Letter to the School Board to request an increase in salary. To support his request Mr Hein includes details of the standards achieved by pupils since his arrival e.g. pupils from the Girls’ High School gained 20% out of all the honours for the whole of Britain in the grades for the session prior to the date of his letter.
• Gustav Hein. German Teacher, Girls’ High School. 20 September 1892. A letter to the School Board to confirm that Mr Hein is prepared to resume German Evening Classes. In the letter he details the books that are recommended to teacher each stage and the cost for each book.
• J. R. Jones. Teacher of The Navigation Class [location not given]. 15 June 1892. Letter to the School Board to have prizes given, including a sextant at a cost of £13 10s, to 4 of the 21 boys who attended the class. Mr Jones advised that he was willing to give two guineas towards the cost of the prizes.
• J. R. Jones. Teacher of The Navigation Class [location not given]. 7 July 1892. Letter to the School Board thanking them for granting his request in his previous letter regarding awarding prizes to boys in the Navigation Class. He also adds that he had now obtained the exam results and out of nine candidates seven had received first class.
• J. R. Jones. Teacher of The Navigation Class [Grammar School and then relocated to Girls’ High School]. 15 July & 29 Aug 1892. In his July letter to the School Board Mr Jones gives a very detailed report on the progress of the pupils and the subjects taught. He names the prize winners and their prizes
1st John W. Henderson, a Sextant
2nd James Sangster, a book, Epitome of Navigation
3rd Edmund W. Davidson, a book, Harbords Glossary of Navigation
4th Thomas Rutherford, a book, Harbords Glossary of Navigation
Mr Jones is very enthusiastic in his report and follows up with details of jobs at sea the pupils have secured. His letter of 29 August thanks the Board for his pay increase, in his report he had not detailed any request for a pay increase.
• John W. Kidd. Teacher of the Elementary Applied Mechanics and Steam Class. [Location not given]. 22 September 1892. A letter to the School Board accepting the teaching position and an accompanying letter with the details of the course and the textbook required.
• William Litster. Music Teacher, Springbank Terrace. 22 August 1892. Letter to the School Board to advise that having been searching for some time he had now sourced a portable musical instrument to replace the ordinary American organ in schools. Mr Litster gives six schools that he felt would benefit from such an instrument.
• James Moir. Head Teacher, Aberdeen Grammar School. 24 August 1892. Letter to the School Board with number of passes in each subject area in 1892 and the corresponding numbers for comparison in 1891.
• Helen McFarlane. Teacher at Glenfoundland School by Insch. 13 July 1892. Letter to the School Board requesting a teaching position and providing a resume of her career to date. |