DATE | DIARY TRANSCRIPTION |
1st Sep 1864 | Great many late comers; seems to be a new thing since Holidays. Work as usual. |
2nd Sep 1864 | Gave notice that children not present 5 minutes past 9am and 1.35 pm; will be marked as absent in future; and thereby forfeit the ½ d granted for regularity. Hannah Harmes gave notice that she wished to give up teaching. |
5th Sep 1864 | 113 present; 13/6 school pence; Edward Packham absent; gone to Maidstone. |
6th Sep 1864 | Children in time, none late. First class to learn Weights and Measures; Second catechism. |
7th Sep 1864 | Children very troublesome especially in lower classes – 5 & 6 a heavy handful. Work as usual. |
8th Sep 1864 | Charles Packham punished for playing truant 10.30 promised not to do so again. 11-12 Arithmetic in the second class greatly improving. 1.30 Sam Upton allowed to go home for a few minutes. |
9th Sep 1864 | Returned 1/9 for regularity – attendance exceedingly good considering the unsettled weather. Girls particularly noisy in afternoons. 109 present |
12th Sep 1864 | Numbers steadily increasing 120 present 13/0 pence about. Two new ones admitted. Work as usual. |
13th Sep 1864 | Sam Upton punished for being lazy. Work in the Second Class especially during Arithmetic. Great noise in Fourth Class. |
14th Sep 1864 | Raised some children a class higher in rank among the Infants. Work as usual. |
15th Sep 1864 | Work commenced better than generally but flagged towards noon. Two of the classes kept in for bad behaviour during dismissal. |
16th Sep 1864 | Returned 3/0 for regular attendance. 82 only present today owing to rain. Held 1 hours practice with the band. |
19th Sep 1864 | Many children came without school pence. 112 present. One new boy admitted. |
20th Sep 1864 | First & Second classes very lazy in Arithmetic. Kept them in ½ hour if it occurs again. Work as usual in other classes |
21st Sep 1864 | Rumoured that Fred Cook 2nd Class is in the habit of playing truant. 1st and 2nd Classes kept till 12.30. |
22nd Sep 1864 | 9.15a.m. Rumours respecting Cook correct; - is absent again this morning; - 9.30 many late. |
23rd Sep 1864 | G Maynard S. Maynard, Harriet Maynard & Ellen Leppard kept for Home Lessons. Note from F Cook’s mother wishing him not to be punished for Truant Playing. Returned 3/6 for regularity. N.B. Anne Cooke late every noon this week. |
26th Sep 1864 | School Pence 13/0. Present 112. Allcorns have left the district. Cook, Maynard, Upton, Burtenshaw kept for home lessons also Tom Stoner. |
27th Sep 1864 | Second Class Home Less[ons]. Better learnt, still Cook and Maynard kept. Stoner again kept in First Class. Julia Watkins very late. |
28th Sep 1864 | Second Class Home Lessons very badly learnt; kept in at noon 30m:- Fourth noisy. |
29th Sep 1864 | George and Helen Maynard kept at home ill; Seconds home lessons better learnt; work as usual. E Todman left her Lesson Bk at home; several absent from second class. |
30th Sep 1864 | James Johnson kept at noon for Home Lesson. Anne Cooke’s conduct dreadfully bad. 3/0 returned for Regularity. |
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