| Description | 9/10/1904-20/12/1904
John C. Anderson, Ferryhill Public School, 7 November 1904,
Application for headmastership justified by length of service and having previously been the second preferred candidate.
John C. Anderson, Girls’ High Evening School, 5 December 1904,
Appeal for higher salary based on significantly increased workload in new role.
John C. Anderson, Girls’ High Evening School, 24 October 1904,
Multiple requests and proposals to the board, including additional assistants for needlework and cookery, details of classes with enrolment, and proposals for new classes where there is an interest.
D. Anderson, Ferryhill Public School, 29 November 1904,
Details of numbers still enrolled in supplementary classes and a breakdown of reasons for leaving for others.
John C. Anderson, Girls’ High Evening School, 4 November 1904,
Request for an additional machinist for the dressmaking class and a supplementary teacher for English as well as City & Guilds examinations.
Charles Archibald, 42 Albert Street, 3 December 1904,
Speculative application for male assistant teacher from a recent graduate.
John H. Cruickshank, Mile-End Public School, 8 December 1904,
Proposal too run double attendances during December as a response to the difficulties faced by those living further away from the school.
Ellen Creswell, Oral School for Deaf and Dumb, Beech Lodge, 6 November 1904,
Detailed account of the attendance, health, and school transfer of a boy experience sight loss.
Catherine B. Coutts, 310 Holburn Street, 12 October 1904,
Details of teaching qualifications attained.
William B. Duguid, Skene Square School, 14 October 1904,
Numbers enrolled in various classes.
George Fenton, 2 Loanhead terrace, Aberdeen, 3 November 1904,
Application for headmastership justified by length of service and first class teaching diploma.
Alexander Forbes, Holburn Street School, 12 December 1904,
Notifying that the attendances have been continued for the current day, owing to weather.
Alexander Forbes, Holburn Street School, 16 December 1904,
Notifying that some classes will be held in the gymnasium due to the maintenance of the hall.
James Findlay, Rosemount Public School, 4 November 1904,
Notification of a concert taking place in the gymnasium in the first week of December, the profits of which will be used to decorate the school. Also requesting permission to make alterations to the platform, costs of which noted in the reply.
James Findlay, 158 Bon-Accord Street Aberdeen, 23 November 1904,
Offer of free concert tickets on both days for members of the board.
W. Fyfe, Woodside Public School, 10 November 1904,
Correct classroom sizes updated from the registers.
George Fenton, Kittybrewster Public School, 13 October 1904,
Detailed breakdown of students enrolled in all classes across the school.
George Fenton, Kittybrewster Public School, 12 October 1904,
Notification that the commercial classes have become so popular that they have been split into 2 sections numbering 170 total.
William Hendry, Causewayend Public School, 7 November 1904,
Application for headmastership justified by length of service.
James Hayward, King Street Public School, 24 November 1904,
Notification that the infants’ room piano and infants’ harmonium are out of order.
William Hendry, Causewayend Evening School, 26 October 1904,
Details of the number of students enrolled in millinery classes and request for additional assistance with a recommendation of an individual.
William Hendry, Causewayend Evening School, 29 October 1904,
Request for additional teachers in both the preparatory and dressmaking classes detailing the number of pupils enrolled vs teachers and a recommendation for an individual.
William Hendry, Causewayend Evening School, 12 October 1904,
Number of students enrolled across different classes.
William Hendry, Causewayend Evening School, 14 October 1904,
Number of students enrolled across different classes in addition to those in arrears and additional teacher recommendations.
William Hendry, Causewayend Evening School, 22 October 1904,
Request for additional assistance for dressmaking and needlework classes.
John R. Jack, Skene Street Public School, 27 October 1904,
Request for an additional infants’ teacher with numbers of current class sizes included.
John Lumsden, 483 King Street Aberdeen, 7 December 1904,
Application for second mastership detailing previous experience.
D. B. Lothian, St. Clement Street Public School,
Application for headmastership justified by length of service and variety of schools served in.
W. Keith Macgregor, Evening Constabulary Class, Central School,
Numbers of pupils enrolled in English, geography and arithmetic.
? Macleod, Central Evening Grammar School, 19 October 1904,
Details of the number of students enrolled in the new political economy class.
? Macleod, Central Evening Grammar School, 13 October 1904,
Total enrolment and numbers enrolled in classes across the school, in additional to a request for additional support and the suggestion some other class sizes may be too large.
Allan Moodie, Woodside Public School, 14 October 1904,
Numbers enrolled in various classes and request for additional support.
William D. Maclean, 60 Ashley Road Aberdeen, 7 December 1904,
Detailed rejection written on behalf of all other head teachers of the proposals on pupil admissions and school districts. It argues that the changes would deny parents choice, require more frequent changes, and slow the progress of pupils. The letter then provides a list of alternate suggestions given by the head teachers.
John Mckenzie, Ashley Road Public School, 31 October 1904,
Notifying of complaints made about the use of the loft floor rooms by pupils.
John Mckenzie, Ashley Road Public School, 30 November 1904,
Breakdown of the progression pathways of students from the previous year’s supplementary course.
William D. Maclean, Kittybrewster Public School, 3 November 1904,
Request for an investigation into a recent incident of assault on a teacher by a parent.
John Mckenzie, Ashley Road Public School, 10 November 1904,
Complaint that Walker Road School had yet to submit its contribution to the children’s fresh air fortnight and clothing schemes.
John Mckenzie, Ashley Road Public School, 27 October 1904,
Teacher attendance of ‘cure for stammering’ classes.
John Peters, St. Paul Street Evening School, 14 October 1904,
Numbers of students enrolled in various classes across the school.
John Peters, St. Paul Street Evening School,
Enrolment numbers for classes specified where there is a request being made for additional support or to break large classes into smaller groups.
John Peters, St. Paul Street Evening School, 27 October 1904,
Asking what should be done in the event of a parish council election being held in the school.
Charles Reid, 26 Fountainhall Road, 3 November 1904,
Speculative application for promotion to second master, detailing previous experience, in addition to a complaint about his recent transferring to Walker Road School due to increased travel costs.
Helen A. Robertson, Cairnbanno School, New Deer, Aberdeenshire, 19 December 1904,
Confirming they would like to be placed on the preferred list of candidates when they soon move to Aberdeen (184 Mid Stocket Road), also details previous experience.
William Ross, Ashley Road Public School, 21 October 1904,
Application for headmastership detailing previous experience.
William Ross, Girls’ High Evening School & Grammar Evening School, 21 October 1904,
On behalf of the other French and German teachers, requesting higher salaries and pointing out that teachers at Gordon’s College are paid much more for the same subjects.
James Rose, Causewayend Public School, 28 October 1904,
Number of infants enrolled in the school and pointing out the difficulties faced by parents having to send children of different ages in opposite directions to different schools.
John Ritchie, King Street Public School, 13 October 1904,
Numbers enrolled in various classes across the school and request for additional support or for classes to be divided in several subjects.
John Ritchie, King Street Evening School, 27 October 1904,
Notification that the gymnasium will be used for upcoming parish council elections and physical exercise classes cancelled.
Will Robertson, Westfield Public School, 21 October 1904,
Acknowledging offer of a male pupil teacher for the school but requesting that, if possible, the pupil teacher be female due to the work being in the infants’ department.
James Rose, Causewayend Public School, 14 December 1904,
List of students attaining merit certificates.
H. Morland Simpson, Aberdeen Grammar School, 11 November 1904,
Petition signed by upper students about swimming classes, mentions the death by drowning of pupil, David Connor.
Annie E. Simpson, 35 Sunnyside Road, Aberdeen, 9 November 1904,
Request to transfer from junior teaching at Skene Square School to senior teaching.
William A. Stormonth, 9 Murray Terrace, Aberdeen, 5 November 1904,
Application for the headmaster position at Marywell School, detailing previous experience and education.
H. Morland Simpson, Aberdeen Grammar School, 6 December 1904,
Total pupil enrolment by year dating back to 1883 and an explanation for the apparent decline in numbers since 1898.
L. B. Spalding, York Street Public School, 12 December 1904,
Notification of a combined attendance being made due to inclement weather.
L. Skea, St. Paul Street School, 7 November 1904,
Detailed account of the incident between teacher, Miss Georgie, and parent, Mrs Copland and a rebuttal of the magistrate’s verdict.
Charles Stewart, Gordon’s College, 5 October 1904,
Book recommendations for preparatory English classes.
James Sutherland, Rosemount Evening School, 14 October 1904,
Details of the number of students enrolled in different classes and a breakdown for each class about whether additional assistance is required.
William A. Stormonth, Walker Road Evening School, 14 October 1904,
Numbers enrolled in all classes across the week and a request for an assistant for the dressmaking class.
P. Smart, Frederick Street Public School, 21 October 1904,
Details pupil, William Bremner (born 19 March 1892), being a ‘bad case’ due to an unspecified accident and being ‘much behind with his education for his years’. Also details pupil, David Millar (born 17 April 1891), as being another ‘bad case’ that might be passed over.
Charles Stewart, Gordon’s College Aberdeen, 11 October 1904,
Various details about enrolment and provisions for evening classes. General trends are increased enrolment and more stringent entry requirements before starting class.
H. Morland Simpson, Aberdeen Grammar School, 19 October 1904,
Recommendation for a vacant scholarship.
L. B. Spalding, York Street Public School, 12 October 1904,
Notifying that there are a few pupils in the school with a slight stammer but not considered to be at the level where they would be admitted to a specific class.
William A. Stormonth, Walker road Evening School, 10 October 1904,
Notifying that that the dressmaking class is in need of an assistant as it now has 32 pupils.
Helen Mitchell, Cotton Lodge, Aberdeen, 11 October 1904,
Details of classes they are qualified to teach.
Isabella Taylor, 27 Caledonian Place, Aberdeen, 13 October 1904,
Details of classes they are qualified to teach.
Rob Valentine, Hanover Street Evening School, 13 October 1904,
Enrolment numbers in classes across the school and a request for an additional assistant each for both dressmaking and millinery.
John Watson, Broomhill Evening School, 17 October 1904,
Enrolment numbers in classes across the school and a recommendation that assistance is no longer required for the millinery class.
A.G. Wallace, Central School, 18 October 1904,
Detailing that there are 5 pupils in the school considered stammerers and that one of them, Robert Carswell of 27 Sunnyside Road, had recently started private tuition. The rest of the cases were considered non-serious.
A.G. Wallace, Central School, 10 October 1904,
Total numbers enrolled in divisions of the school and an expectation that most of them would continue. |