School work was resumed this morning. All the staff are present but the attendance of the children is poor.

Miss Julia Lang began her duties in this school today.

Miss Lang marked her register wrongly this morning. I have made the alterations in Red Ink.

Checked Registers. J. Colson. Miss Floyd marked no. 53 and she is absent. I have again cautioned her about the registrations.

Miss Floyd has again made a mistake in her register. I have added a footnote. School closes today until Wed. 24^th September. Holiday for Rushden Feast.

The schools re-opened this morning after the Holiday. All the teachers are in attendance but the attendance of the children is poor.

Miss Childs has been absent from school all week. She is suffering from a severe cold and ulcerated throat.

I shall take extra lessons in needlework during the winter months so that I may get the garments finished. It is necessary for me to do this at different times as some of my teachers need my assistance in this subject.

I was absent from school on Tuesday afternoon by permission of the Board. The attendance at school is very poor this week. As the weather is very winterly I have decided not to give the children play but to allow them to go home earlier. They will have time to leave the room in the morning; in the afternoon they go steadily on until 4pm.

Miss Floyd has been absent from school all week.

School closed this morning for Xmas Holiday of two weeks.

A week’s work has been done in school. All the teachers are present and a fairly good attendance of the children.

Checker registers and found them correct. J. Colson.

Today ended the third quarter of our school year. Average 297. Miss Knock has been absent since Wednesday 28^th January. She is not in a fit state to attend school.

Miss Knock is still absent.

I had a note on Sunday morning from Miss Knock to say that the Doctor still refuses to allow her to resume her duties at school.

Miss Knock returned to school this morning.

The Songs for the school Year are now taught. They are as follows:

Division IV

1. Soldier’s Chorus (Faust)
2. A Shepherd Lullaby ( J. Edwards)
3. Pluck ye Roses (R Schumann)
4. The Dewdrops Folly (M.B. Foster)
5. Good Night (Carle Reineche)

Division III

1. Coronation Song
2. Home Sweet Home
3. Butterfly Fairies
4. The Better Land
5. Tit-Willow

Division II

1. The Milk Maids.
2. Daddy Long Legs Morning.
3. Cloundland
4. Swing Song
5. Under the Willow

I took all the work of Miss Knock’s class during her absence and so far my own work permitted I kept to the Time Table. I examine her children on Tuesday morning and the work shows improvement.

The summary has been entered up twice on this date. I was busy and my Cert. Assistant entered for me and neglected to say so when I again entered it.

The attendance has not been as good this week: many of the children are ill.

The attendance this week still continues poor. Many of the children are ill and there are a few cases of measles. I have been busy during this week examining the various classes and will continue my work during the next week.

Checked registers J. Colson.

Miss Colson was absent from school on Wednesday afternoon and all day Thursday. She was too ill to attend to her duties. I have today bought a cane and shown it to the children. I am at my wit’s end what form of punishment to give to habitually late comers and have come to the conclusion that nothing but the “rod” will have any effect. I have had no cane in school since Xmas.

I was absent from school on Monday afternoon.

Miss Floyd finished her work in my school today.

The school attendance is very poor: there are many cases of measles. Average for week 270

School attendance is very poor: there are many cases of measles. The schools are closed on Monday April 6^th for election purposes.

We have done one week’s work after the Easter Holiday. The attendance is still poor owing to the prevalence of measles.

The Class Room was free from the furnace fumes on Monday & Tuesday of this week .Also today Wednesday.

The Class Room is not free of the Fumes today.

The Fumes are not now in the Standard IV classroom. The fires are off and the room is quite clear. Mrs. George came to assist me in this school on May 4^th. She is taking Standard II until a new assistant is appointed.

The school closes today for Whitsuntide Holiday one week.

The school work was resumed this morning. All the teachers are present and a good attendance of children.

The school closes this afternoon for the Wesleyan Sunday School Treat.

Miss Adams is ill today and unable to attend school.

Miss Adams returned to school today. The schools are closed this afternoon for the Congregational Sunday School Treat.

Checked registers. J. Colson.

Miss M. Reynolds began her duties in my school this morning. She is in charge of Standard II

The schools are closed this afternoon for the Church Sunday School Treat. I have much complaint to make regarding the dirty condition of some of my children who attend this school. Not only are the heads in a very bad state but there is a total neglect in cleanliness as far as boots and pinafores are concerned. In many cases I have no option but to send them home.

Miss Reynolds marked today afternoon marks for morning in the Standard II register. She will get used to the different markings. The schools were closed on Monday afternoon July 13tth for the Park Road Baptist Sunday School Treat.

The schools close today for the Midsummer Holiday of one month.

School work was resumed this morning. All the teachers are present and a good attendance of children. I have received the “Inspector’s report”:-

“The order is extremely good and though the staff has been weak lately the good character of the work is maintained. Exaggerated expression in reading should be avoided and Geography may improve. The floor is bad in places and the school might be kept cleaner. More of the girls might have instruction in cookery. The school is crowded and for many weeks in the year the accommodation has been exceeded.

Constance N. Scholes, Candidate – Passed Arithmetic and History.

School staff for the year May 1^st 1903 to April 30^th 1904

Head Mistress – Miss M. Soutar.

Cert. Assistant- Miss E. Brigstock

Cert. Assistant – V. Colson

Assistant Art. 30 – Miss J. Lang

Assistant Art. 50 – Miss A. Adams

Assistant Art. 50 – Miss E.M. Childs

Assistant Art. 50 – Miss M. Reynolds

First Year Pupil Teacher – Constance Scholes.

Candidates – Elsie Knight, Winnie Berry, Ada Wright.

Owing to the overcrowding of the schools the Board have drafted 35 of my girls to the North End Schools. I have now rearranged the school and put the girls in the classes for which they are best suited. There is much difficulty connected with this arrangement and some of the girls have not had an equal chance of work.

As some of the teachers are experiencing a difficulty in managing their needlework I shall help them during the next quarter. This will account for the departure from the time table.

The schools are closed this afternoon until Wednesday morning – Feast holiday.

This school re-opened today after the holiday. The attendance is not good. All the teachers are present.

Checked registers. J. Colson.

The weather is changeable and consequently many children are prevented from attending school through illness. The Pupil Teacher’s quarterly examination took place on Sat. 10^th October.

The attendance is very poor owing to the homes of many children being upset by the heavy rains.

I left school at 3 o’clock this afternoon. I was too ill to remain.

Checked the registers. J. Colson

Miss Reynolds returned to school after an absence of a week and a day.

The schools close today for the Xmas Holiday. They re-open on January 11^th 1904

School work was resumed this morning after the Xmas holiday. All the teachers are present and the attendance of children is 298.

Miss Brigstock is absent from school today. She had to go out of town on urgent business.

Average for quarter 287.5

Miss Brigstock is again absent from school by permission.

The attendance is very affected by illness amongst the children. 271 this morning.

I left school on Wednesday morning at 11.15 and did not return again. I was too ill to remain in school.

I have today examined the school in needlework specimens. The attendance is still very poor owing to sickness and the bitterly cold weather.

The Songs for the Year are

Division IV

1. Harvest Home – Percy E. Fletcher
2. Sleep gentle Lady – Bishop
3. Merry Snow. White fairies Jacobi
4. Spring to Come – E. Boyce.
5. The Fall of the Leaf – McFarren
6. The May Bell and the Flowers. – Mendelssohn.

Division III

1. Where’er you walk – Handel
2. The Lass of Richmond Hill – James Hook
3. The Wind – G. Rathbone
4. The Joy of Spring – Mendelssohn
5. Lay of the Imprisoned Huntsman – F. Schubert.

Division II

1. The Little Shadow
2. The Snow Flakes
3. The Blacksmith
4. Hickery Hock
5. The Nestlings.

The attendance is very poor this afternoon. Many of the children went to view the fire at the leather factory (James Hyde) and failed to come to school.

Checked registers and found them correct. J. Colson.

The schools were closed on March 28^th for election purposes. Today the attendance is poor. The schools close today for the Easter Holiday of one week.

School work was resumed this morning. All the teachers are present and a fair attendance of the children.

Visit Henry Taylor.

I was absent from school on Friday afternoon through illness. The entries in Standard I register dated Feb 1^st written in red ink are the attendances of girls who were promoted or put down during the second quarter.

I shall be absent from school this afternoon. I have an appointment in Northampton.

Misses Lang & Adams are absent today attending the B.N.D. Exam. Four P.T.’s are also absent.

I shall be absent from school on Thursday May 12^th. Miss Brigstock is left in charge.

I came down to school this morning and I left again at 9.30 to catch the train.

Misses Adams and Lang are absent from school this morning. They have gone to Wellingborough to be medically examined. Miss Adams is unable through illness to attend school.

The school closes today for the Whit week holiday. Miss Adams has not been able to resume her duties; her health at present is very precarious.

School work was resumed this morning after the Whit week holiday. Miss Adams seems better and has resumed her work at school. All the other teachers are present.

Out of 114 papers written on a lecture delivered on “Alcohol” 74 have gained certificates. Rev. W. Shorten presented the same to the girls this afternoon and the children sang for him.

I finish my duties here today. I have resigned my position of Head Mistress of the Alfred Street Girl’s School after having held the same from April 1895, a period of nine years.

Visited the school. Edwin Jenkins.

At noon today I took charge of the school. Laura A.C. Myers

Miss Brigstock was absent today on private business.

The schools are closed this afternoon for Succoth Baptist Sunday School Treat.

The schools were closed on Monday afternoon for another Sunday School Treat.

Checked registers. C. J. Colson

The schools were closed on Monday afternoon and again on Thursday for the Independent Wesleyan Sunday School treat and the Church of England Sunday School treat respectively. Miss Lang and Miss Adams have been absent this week, taking the Certificate Examination. Miss Lang will not return, as her engagement as Assistant teacher here terminated today. She is taking charge of a small school of her own in Devonshire. Miss Caudwell of Wellingborough commenced duties here on Monday and was put in charge of Standard III

The school closes this afternoon for the Park Rod Baptist School Treat.

Messrs. Vorley and Corby, members of the Education Committee, visited the schools this afternoon. All the classes were seen at work. Today I sent home two girls because a younger sister had chicken-pox.

This afternoon I made a mistake in doing the summary of attendances for the week. I copied the attendances for this week/the 11^th week of the school year, into the place for the 27^th week. I think the mistake may be corrected when the 27^th week comes as to show back mistake and alteration clearly. Botany is being introduced into the school curriculum this year. I am taking this subject myself throughout the school but expect the teachers to be able to continue the subject next year.

W. Gotch visited school this afternoon and looked at all the rooms. I mentioned to him certain apparatus which I considered would be advisable to procure.

H.M.I’s report for the school year 1903-4 is as follows.

“The school is conducted with enthusiasm and all the teachers work well together. Discipline is exceedingly good and the girls are interested in their work and intelligent. The written exercises are neat and carefully supervised. The oral instruction is well imparted and needlework and singing deserve praise. The average attendance exceeds the accommodation during the first 14 weeks of the school year. The fluted glass that survives should be replaced with clear panes.

The average attendance of the Girl’s School must not be allowed to exceed 227 i.e. the number for which the department is recognised or the grant next year may be endangered.

I am to enquire the exact date of birth of E.M. Knight. It appears from the medical certificates of W. Berry and E.M. Knight that they have not been successfully vaccinated. Until this operation has been effectively performed this Board cannot, both for their own sakes and in the interests of the children attending the school, consent to their engagement.

A. Wright is recognised under article 33. Miss E. Brigstock’s certificate should be forwarded to this office for endorsement. J. Colson. 27^th July 1904

Miss Scholes has been up at Moor Road Infants’ School this week on Monday (all day) and Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday mornings, helping Miss Strickland, one of whose assistants is ill.

Needlework is being taken throughout the school this afternoon so that as many garments as possible may be finished off before the holidays. If steel knitting needles are left in the knitting they often rust during a month’s disuse and this spoils the appearance of subsequent work.

Miss Brigstock leaves today. We close for a month’s holiday.

Work was resumed this morning, all the teachers being present with the single exception of a vacancy in Miss Brigstock’s place as her post has not yet been filled. The attendance is only fair, many children being at the seaside or visiting friends at a distance.

Through ignorance I have previously omitted to enter the approved scheme of work, which is as follows.

Arithmetic Scheme 73

Composition. Standard I chiefly oral. Answering questions orally or on paper about objects and pictures in front of the class.

Standard II As in Standard I but more advanced. Object not necessarily present e.g. “The High Street of Rushden.” Subjects of composition to be familiar. Reproduction in writing of an early nursery rhyme of story.

Standard III. As above but fewer suggestive questions to be given. Short accounts of common objects. Easy narrative e.g. well known fairy tales or simple stories.

Standard IV. Simple themes on common objects. Simple narratives and descriptions. Inventions of stories about pictures. Use of all the common signs of punctuation, including marks of exclamation, interrogation and quotation marks.

Standard V. The work of preceding standard autobiographies of common things. Letter writing. Easy themes. Summaries of lessons.

Standard VI & VII. The work of all previous standards. Short themes of abstract subjects e.g. accuracy.

Note. In all standards, the subjects for composition are to be chosen as far as possible from other lessons of curriculum and from objects around the children.

Reading – As per code.

Recitation. Standard I

 “Seven times one” Jean Angelow

“Johnny” Christina Rosetti.

Standard II

“The Vaudois Teacher” G. Whittier

“Twilight Calm” C. Rosetti.

Standard III

“The brook” Tennyson

“Lady Wentworth” Longfellow

Standard IV

“Dora” Tennyson.

Short extracts to be learnt at intervals.

Standard V

Extract from “Marmion” Scott.

Short extracts to be learnt at intervals.

Standard VI & VII

Extract from “Marmion”. Other short [poems and favourite quotations to be learnt.

Grammar. In all the standards grammar is to be mainly based on composition. Correction and justification of sentences is to play a more important part than details of parsing and grammatical minutae and finesses.

Standard I

(a)    The Noun

(b)   Analysis of sentences into two simple logical parts of subject and predicate. Names not to be given .Simply to be referred to as the thing (or person) of whom we are speaking and what we say or think about it.

Standard II

(a)    The nouns and the verb

(b)   Simple analysis of sentences as in Standard I

Standard III

(a)    The noun, the verb and the pronoun, the adjective and the adverb.

(b)   Analysis as in Standards I & II

Standard IV

(a)    All the parts of speech

(b)   Fuller analysis of simple sentences into subject and enlargements, predicates and extension, objects (direct and indirect.)

Standard V

(a)    Parsing and analysis of simple sentences.

(b)   Word analysis. Elementary notions of root, prefix and suffix. Illustrations from common words.

Standard VI & VII

(a)    Parsing and analysis of simple compound and complex sentences

(b)   Latin and English prefixes and suffixes. A few of the commonest Latin roots.

Geography

Standard I.

 (i)To understand the plan of the school & to be able to draw plans of the room in which they are taught.

(ii) To have a rudimentary conception of the chief geographical features of the district surrounding the school. A map of the district to be used.

(iii) Means of communication between one village or town and the neighbouring ones.

(iv) The cardinal points. The Mariner’s Compass.

Standard II

(i)                 The sea, its ships and sailors and their work.

(ii)                Contrasts between town and country.

(iii)              The contrasts between English people and those of foreign countries e.g. Japanese, Eskimos, Italians, Arabs (the globe to be used)

(iv)             The Geography of the district – physical & industrial illustrated by contrast with other parts of England (Map of England used)

Standard III

The geography of England. Children to use their reasoning powers to find how climate, physical features, position i.e. influences the localities of certain industries. Only a few of the leading towns to be taken.

Standard IV

(i)The British Isles. Reasoning to be largely employed and comparisons drawn between England, Scotland & Ireland.

(ii) Canada & Australia.

Standard V

Europe generally. France & Germany to be taken in more detail. Size and shape of the world. Latitude and Longitude. Climate Interchanges of productions. Ocean routes to the various countries studies.

Standard VI

The British possessions including the British Isles. The Planetary system.

History

Standard I

Easy stories told in an interesting manner. E.g. the Ancient Britons. The Romans. The story of Caractacus.

Standard II

Twelve easy stories from early English History.

Standard III

Twenty easy stories chosen from 1066-1485

Standard IV

Selection from the Tudor period.

Standard V

Selections from the Stuart period.

Both the above series of selections to be chiefly biographical.

Standard VI & VII

Selections from the Hanoverian Period. Composition of the leading features of modern life with life in the Stuart & Tudor periods.

Domestic Economy.

Standard IV

Clothing – uses, kinds – good and bad conductors of heat.

Food – Kinds, uses, combinations.

Standard V

(1)   The digestion of food. Causes of indigestion. Best methods of cooking food

(2)   Composition of the air. Respiration, ventilation

(3)   The skin & personal cleanliness. Cleanliness of clothing & of the home.

Standard VI & VII

1. House sanitation. Warming and lighting the dwelling. Different kinds of fuel drainage.
2. Sick nursing. Duties of a sick nurse. Treatment of slight ailments and accidents. Invalid cookery. Management of a sickroom.
3. Habits and health.

Nature Study

(i) Summer. Parts of a plant. Roots. Kinds, uses, extraordinary ones. Stems. Leaves, flowers, food of plants. A hayfield. A bunch of summer flowers. Fertilisation. Insects & flowers. How plants protect themselves from their enemies.

(ii) Autumn. Changes in Autumn. A cornfield. A bunch of Autumn flowers. Fruits & nuts. How plants scatter their seeds. Why leaves fall.

(iii) Winter. Nature’s winter rest. A twig of Horse chestnut. Food of plants. How a plant grows. Poisonous plants and trees. Useful plants & tree. Evergreens. Fruits used at Christmas.

(iv)Spring. Leaf buds. Young leaves & their protection. Flower buds. Tree flowers. A bunch of Spring flowers. A farm in spring- ploughing and sowing. (i.e.) How a seed grows

Brush Drawing

Standard I. Brush manipulation – blobs, strokes, lines. Easy patterns formed from same. Flat hinting of patterns & representation of simple objects. Memory drawing of objects practised. Easy design.

Standard II

As in Standard I but slightly more difficult. The elements of drawing from common objects and copied. Memory drawing. Adaptation to design to be borne in mind in all standards.

In Standard V & VI Ornamental lettering to be practised.

Songs

Standard I & II

“The Mill stream” – F.A. Challinor

“Wynken, Blynken & Nod.” MacDonald.

“Now pray we for our country” – Eliza Flowers.

“Summer comes with cheer & gladness.” – Handel.

“Poor little fisher boy.” K. Lovell Mason.

Standard III & IV

“Butterfly fairies. –Somervell

“The Polka”

“Autumn Winds” – G.F. Root

“O Hush thee my Baby” Sir A. Sullivan

“Woodland voices”. – A. Richards.

Standard V – VII

“A tiny Dewdrop lying.”

“Pluck ye Roses.”

“A song of Evening.”

“I sing because I love to Sing.”

“Here in cool grotto.

Checked registers and found them correct. J. Colson.

Miss Winnie Berry has been absent from school the last two days. She was vaccinated a week ago and the inflammation is just at its height. She returned to school this morning.

School opened this morning after two days holiday for Rushden Feast. All the teachers are presents, but the attendance is still unsatisfactory owing to some children still being away from home on holidays. Miss Caulwell marked her register in Monday’s space but ruled through the marks and marked in the correct place.

The schools were closed yesterday afternoon (Oct 19^th) to show respect for W. Wood, headmaster of the Boy’s Department of these schools whose death occurred suddenly on the 15^th inst.

Miss Scholes, the P.T. temporarily in charge of the Standard II until the new teacher comes omitted to rule down the space provided for yesterday afternoon’s registrations and consequently marked in the wrong places this morning.

Visit by Thomas Harrison. Sub Inspector.

Miss Mathews commenced duties this morning in this department, taking charge of Standard IV. Hence the vacancy caused by Miss Brigstock’s leaving before the Midsummer holidays is now filled.

The attendance has been low this week through sickness among the children.

Miss Reynolds was away from school this morning through sickness, but returned this afternoon.

Have just finished examining the school in all subjects. Spelling, grammar, composition and arithmetic are poor & will need considerable hard work & better methods of teaching. Standard IV has suffered considerably though not having a regular teacher. Although the P.T’s have done their best the class is too big for them to manage well and the work & order have suffered.

The attendance has been very low this week and last. This morning the list of sick girls has mounted up to 37. Several girls now in school are not at all well. Miss Childs & Miss Scholes have also been suffering from very bad colds but both have so far been able to continue at school. Possibly the foggy weather may account for the sickness.

I shall be absent from school this afternoon until 3.15pm having business in Kettering.

The attendance is ever lower than last week. This morning and afternoon the numbers were 264 and 270 respectively for the absence of 44 girls. The schools were fumigated during the weekend to arrest the speed of infection though in this department there are but 4 cases of girls being absent through fever.

The severe snowstorm of yesterday has still further interfered with the attendance which has fallen this morning to 242. The sickness does not show any signs of decreasing.

The percentage attendance for the week is 76.9. The children are to have their knitted examination work given them this afternoon. Yesterday W. Harrison kindly gave me permission to do this.

The attendance this morning is still low. The numbers are 246 Miss Adams is away from school ill. This morning we have commenced marking the registers in red for early and black for the late mark, in accordance with a circular issued by the County Council last week. Miss Reynolds made two erasures in the register this morning. I have warned her not to do this.

The attendance is still low through sickness. Two little scholars have died through fever, one of the 11^th and another on the 15^th.

The schools are being closed today at noon for a fortnight’s holiday for Christmas.

The school re-opened this morning. All the teachers are present except Miss Elsie Knight who is ill. Sickness is still very prevalent, 14 girls being absent through scarlet fever.

The Cookery lessons are beginning this morning at Newton Road School. 27 girls from Alfred Street are attending the class. The demonstration lesson is on Thursday morning from 10 to 12 and the practical lessons on Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon. The Cookery course is later this year owing to the difficulty of getting a teacher and utensils.

Visited the school. Davis F. Gotch.

Miss Elsie Knight returned to school this morning after an absence of a week and two days.

Miss Childs was absent through illness yesterday but is back in school this morning, though still not quite better.

Took fire-drill this morning. Every class can get out quickly except Standard IV who have to wait until the fifth standard are out of the way.

Another little scholar, Annie Bugby (Standard IV) died from fever this morning. This is the third death of a scholar through the epidemic.

The third quarter of the school year ends today. The average attendance for the quarter is 278. The epidemic of fever accounts for this partially.

Miss Matthews was absent from school this morning, having been home for the week-end. She was unable to start back to Rushden as early as she anticipated.

Today (11-12am and 3-4pm) Standards IV,V,VI & VII are being addressed by Mr. W.B. Craven on the subject of “Alcohol.” Essays are afterwards to be written by the girls, for which certificates and prizes are offered.

This week the new time table is being tried throughout the school to see whether any slight alterations will be necessary.

The school closes today at noon for the Easter Holiday, re-opening on May 1^st.

School opened this morning after the Easter Holiday. All the teachers are present and the attendance of scholars is good. The new drafts of children from North End Infants, Moor Road Infants and Alfred Street Infants have been admitted. The scheme of work for the school year ending April 30^th is as follows.

Composition. Standard I Chiefly oral. Answering questions orally & on paper about objects and pictures in front of the class.

Standard II. As in Standard I but more difficult object not necessarily present e.g. “The High Street of Rushden”. Subjects of composition to be familiar. Reproduction in writing of an easy nursery rhyme or story.

Standard III. As above but fewer suggestive questions to be given. Short accounts of common and objects. Easy narratives e.g. Well known fairy tales or simple stories.

Standard IV. Simple themes on  common objects. Simple narratives and descriptions. Invention of stories about pictures. Use of all common signs of punctuation, including marks of exclamation, interrogation & quotation marks.

Standard V. the work of preceding standards. Autobiographies of common thing. Letter writing – easy themes. Summaries of lessons.

Standard VI & VII. The work of all previous standards. Short themes on abstract subjects e.g. accuracy.

Note all standards, the subjects for composition are to be chosen as far as possible from other lessons of the curriculum and things around the children.

Grammar. Standard III. Synthesis of simple sentences e.g. adding subjects to predicates and vice versa, unfinished predicates and their completion (object.)

Analysis of a simple sentence into its logical parts, corresponding to synthesis above.

Parsing of nouns, verbs & pronouns. Finding noun and pronoun. Gender, number and person. Transitive and intransitive verbs.

Standard IV “How, “When”, and “Where” words and phrases (extensions of predicates) added to sentences or picked out from given sentences.

Words & phrases telling more about subject and object.

Adverbs – kinds. Prepositions. Tense of verbs.
Kinds of adjectives. Comparison of adjectives and adverbs. Case of nouns and pronouns.

Standard V Combinations of sentences. Co-ordinate and sub-ordinate clauses.

Word analysis. Elementary notions of root prefix and suffix e.g. illustrate by building up words from dictum, port, cedo, & cuptum (to by adding prefixes and suffixes. Using words so formed in sentences showing their meaning.

Standard VI & VII. Building up and analysing simple compound & complex sentences, distinction according to function of the three kinds of subordinate clauses.

Participles and verbal nouns. Voice and mood of verbs.

Common English and Latin roots, prefixes and suffixes. Use of words formed in sentences to illustrate their meaning.

Recitation

Standard I From R.L. Stevenson’s “Child’s Garden of Verses.”

My Shadow

Marching Song

Folly and Children.

The Lamp lighter.

The Swing.

Standard II

Whittier. “The Vaudois Teacher”

Wordsworth –“ The Daffodils.”

Standard III

Burns – “To a Mouse”

Wordsworth – “To the small Celandine”.

Tennyson – Extract from  “The May Queen”

Standard IV

Longfellow – Extract from “Hiawatha.”

Cowper – “On the Receipt of her Mother’s picture.”

Standard V

Tennyson – Extract from “Morte d’Arthur.”

Other passages from Tennyson & Lowell.

Standard VI & VII

Milton – Extract from “Samson Agonistes.”

Shakespeare – Extract from “The Merchant of Venice.”

Other short extracts from Milton and Shakespeare.

Botany

Standards II & III

Summer. Parts of  plant. Roots, kinds, uses and extraordinary ones.

Stems – kind & uses.

Leaves

Flowers

Food of plants, gaseous and liquid.

A hayfield.

A bunch of Summer flowers.

Fertilisation, insects and flowers.

Hoe plants protect themselves from their enemies.

Autumn

Changes in autumn. Autumn tests. (Collect and press leaves.)

A cornfield

A bunch of Autumn flowers.

Fruits and nuts.

How plants scatter their seeds.

Why leaves fall.

Winter

Nature’s winter rest.

A twig of horse chestnut

Poisonous plants and trees.

Plants and trees useful to man.

Evergreens.

Fruits used at Christmas.

Spring

Bulbous plants.

Flowers of trees.

Leaf buds and their unfolding.

Young leaves and their protection.

Plants which produce flowers before leaves.

Early Spring flowers – primroses, violets.

A farm in Spring, ploughing, sowing etc.

How a seed grows.

Geography

Standard I

A plan and a picture. To draw plans of simple objects e.g. a book.

Plans of the School

To understand the plan of the district surrounding the school

Means of communication between one town or village & neighbouring ones.

The cardinal points. The Mariner’s compass.

Rivers and lakes. Mountains & valleys.

Uses of mountains.

Standard II

The meaning and use of a map. (Map of England used.)

The geography of the district, physical and industrial, illustrate by contrast with other parts of England.

The Coast line of a country – capes, bays (i.e. chief characteristics of the English Coast East to West. )A day at the Seaside.

The sea; its ships and sailors and their work. Encroaching of the sea and vice versa. Coast protection – lighthouse, light ships. Harbours, breakwaters – straits, channels.

Contrasts between English people and people of other countries e.g. Japanese, Eskimos, Italians, Arabs etc. (The globe to be used.)

Standard III

 Northants and neighbouring counties.

Our own Country.

Scotland

Standard IV

Iceland contrasted and compared with England & Scotland.

Australia and India – contrasted and compared, each country with other previously learnt.

Standard V

Geography of Europe generally.

France, Germany and the British Isles in detail.

Size & shape of the world. Latitude and longitude, zones  and their characteristics. Climate interchange of productions. Ocean routes to the various countries studied.

Standard VI

Canada

The United States

The Planetary System.

History

Standard IV

Stories of English History from early times to the end of the Tudor Period.

Standard V

The Stuart period.

Standard VI & VII

The Hanoverian Period with special reference to the reign of Queen Victoria.

Drawing

Standard I

Drawing of easy objects on the flat or objects of 2 dimensions.

Memory drawing of the same.

Flat tinting of fairly broad surfaces.

Easy leaf forms which can be produced with one or two applications of the brush.

Easy designs on the same.

Standard II

Drawing of easy objects (practice in straight line, circle, and ellipse.)

Memory drawing of the above.

Flat tinting.

Brush drawing and easy natural forms.

Designs based on the same to form borders, squares and drop repeats.

Standard III

Objects of 2 dimensions arranged to five practice in straight line, circle, ellipse, oval and compound curve.

Memory drawing of the above.

Easy and natural forms drawn with the brush from nature.

Ornamental arrangements of the above to decorate a border, a square, all over pattern and a circle or triangle.

Drawing of ordinary script & painted characters with the brush.

Standard IV

Pencil and pen work. Objects of 2 dimensions, showing previous curves and the spinal curve. Same drawn from memory.

Brush work. Drawing from nature with the brush. Elementary principles of ornament and design.

Balanced & symmetrical copies.

Lettering with the brush & the pen (German Text)

Standard V

Easy models of 3 dimensions based on the straight line and circle.

Memory drawing of the above.

Pen and ink sketches of simple natural forms. Brush drawing as in Standard IV. Old English lettering.

Standard VI

Easy objects of 3 dimensions. Memory drawing of the same. Pen & ink sketches of simple and natural forms and of land and sea-scape.

Brush work. Elementary principles of ornament and design based on natural forms.

More difficult ornamental lettering. Easy monochromes in land or sea-scape.

Domestic Economy

Standard IV

Clothing, uses, kinds, good and bad conductors of heat.

Food. Kinds. Uses. Valuable combinations of food.

Standard V

The digestion of food. Causes of indigestion. Best methods of cooking food.

The composition of the air, respiration, ventilation.

The skin and personal cleanliness.

Cleanliness of clothing and of home.

Standards VI & VII

House sanitation.

Warming and lighting the dwelling.

Different kinds of fuel.

Drainage

Sick nursing. Duties of a sick nurse.

Treatment of slight ailment and accidents.

Invalid cookery

Management of a sick room.

Habits and heated.

The schools are closed this afternoon for the Congregational Sunday School Treat.

Messrs. Gotch and Holland visited the school this afternoon. I shall be absent from school tomorrow. Miss Colson is left in charge.

The following report is the report of His Majesty’s Inspector for the year ending April 30^th 1905

“Order is very good and the work is thoughtfully planned and skilfully supervised. Except in spelling and arithmetic the attainments are generally satisfactory. Mental Arithmetic should be more systematically taught. It scarcely seems advisable at present, for the elder girls to take up drawing and Botany as well as Domestic Economy and Cookery in addition to their other work.

Better cloakrooms are needed. At present they are only narrow corridors with four tiers of pegs. The entrance leading from one of the corridors to the main room is dangerous. The provision for admitting fresh air in the schoolrooms is unsatisfactory.

J.L. Colson Correspondent.

The schools are closed at noon today for Whitsuntide, re-opening June 19^th

School work is resumed this morning. The attendance is only fair. Several girls have not yet returned from holiday-making.

This afternoon is a half holiday for the Independent Wesleyan Sunday School Treat.

Miss Elsie M. Childs is away from school this week sitting at Leicester for the Certificate Examination

The schools are closed this afternoon for the Church Sunday School Treat.

This afternoon the schools are closed for the Baptist Sunday School Treat.

59 certificates and 6 prizes were presented this afternoon by W.S. Mitchell to the girls who had best reproduced the lecture on “Alcohol and the Blood” delivered by W. Craven in February last.

Ada Wright is away from school this morning, suffering from a bad cold on the chest. She has been very unwell though in school, the past two days.

Ada Wright is back again today though still ill.

The schools are closed this afternoon for the Park Road Wesleyan Sunday School Treat.

The schools  are closed at noon today for a month’s holiday re-opening Sept 4^th

The school re-opens this morning. There are 335 children present out of 360 on registers. All the teachers are present except Miss C. Scholes who is suffering from erysipelas. Miss A. Cunliffe commenced a month’s probation here this morning to see whether she gives promise of becoming a successful teacher.

C. Scholes is back t school after a week’s absence.

Inspection (1). W.H. Salt.

School is closed today for Rushden Feast re-opening Sept 27^th.

School duties were resumed this morning with a poor attendance of scholars. All the teachers are present.

Verified registers J. Colson.

27 girls begin cookery lessons today at Newton Road School. The times are as follows: Thursday 10 -12am Demonstration. Thursday 2 – 4pm (9 Standard V girls) practice. Friday 2- 4pm 18 Standard VI & VII girls – practice.

Elsie Knight was away from school this afternoon. Her parents are removing from the district.

This afternoon is a half-holiday given because the Inspector’s visit is over at W. Salt’s request.

E.M. Childs was ill and unable to stay at school.

Miss Childs, though far from well, is back in school today.

The second quarter of the school year ends today. The average attendance for the quarter is 327.4

Today the school hours are changed for the winter months. Instead of opening in the afternoon at 2pm and closing at 4.30pm, we open at 1.30pm and close at 4pm. Registers are now closed t 1.45pm

The schools will be closed on Monday Nov. 6^th for the Urban District Council Election.

Elsie M. Knight is absent from school through illness.

E.M. Knight is back at school. I have sent C. Scholes home. She is suffering erysipelas  round her eye.

For the last 3 weeks the attendance has been very low viz.89.3%, 88.4% and 88.2%. Many children are suffering from colds. Those who usually are in attendance are coming well.

The P.T. Centre at Wellingborough opens today. C.N. Scholes, W. Berry and E. knight are commencing studies there.

Miss Ada Knight is suffering from a bad cold and is absent from school

Miss Knight is back at school again though still not very well.

The schools are closed today for the Xmas Holidays, re-opening Monday January 8^th. Miss Reynolds wrote in a column needed to mark attendance for the first week in the New Year.

School is opened this morning. All the teachers are present except Miss Reynolds who is travelling today. There are 311 girls present out of 344.

Verified registers. J. Colson.

The schools will be closed all day tomorrow, as the rooms will be used as polling stations for the General Election.

This afternoon Miss Colson & I are taking Standard II to the Nen, to illustrate the various points in connection with a river and river-basin of which the children have been lately hearing. We start at 3pm, the school being left in charge of Miss Matthews.

H. Berry has been absent from school all day today suffering from a cold.

Today we change the time of the afternoon session, commencing at 2pm and ending 4.30pm. Registers are closed at 2.15pm

Miss Ada Wright ends her duties as monitress here today. On Monday she commences to attend the Preparatory Class in connection with the Wellingborough P.T. Centre.

Each day at 2pm W. Craven gives a temperance Lecture to the upper standard girls to be afterwards reproduced in composition.

The upper classes are not adhering strictly to time table today. We are attempting to complete the essays to prevent further interruption.

Today we commenced a school Penny Bank in connection with the Post Office. 19/2d was deposited by 92 depositors.

For official purposes this school will be designated in future:- Rushden Alfred Street Council 193.

Verified the registers. J Colson.

This afternoon Standard I are having a local outdoor geography lesson. Misses Matthews and Reynolds are taking them to the Nen starting at 3.20

School is closed today for the Easter Holidays; work is to be resumed on April 23^rd

Work was resumed this morning. The attendance is only fair.

The new school year begins this morning. The attendance is 343 out of 370. A new arrangement has been made to lessen the numbers attending this department. All Standard I girls are being accommodated at North End School, while all Standard II girls are being accommodated here.  Hitherto half Standard I have been at North End School and half here. All schemes of work have been sent to H.M.I. and duly approved.

The schools are closed this afternoon for the Park Road Wesleyan Sunday School Treat.

H.M.I’s report for the school year 1905-6 is as follows.

“The girls are well behaved, interested in their work and are making good progress. There should be a progressive scheme in Cookery and all girls should have an opportunity of taking it. Some high teacher’s chairs might be provided for the teaching staff. There are insufficient inlets for ventilation and the lower panes of the windows should be opened as suggested. The rooms are overcrowded with desks. No desks should be more than 12 feet long and there should be sufficient gangway space. The entrance to the main room is awkward and the cloakroom accommodation is not satisfactory, many of the tiers of pegs being 4 & 5 rows deep. Better lighting is needed in Standard IV classroom.

J.L. Colson, correspondent.

School is closed this afternoon for the Wellingboro Road Mission Sunday School Treat.

We practised the fire-drill today for the first time since the new Standard II’s came into school.

School is closed at noon today for the Whitsuntide Holidays, re-opening June 11th

School is re-opened this morning; all the teachers are present and a good attendance of children.

There is a half holiday this afternoon for the Succoth Baptist and the Congregational Sunday School Treat.

The school will be closed this afternoon for the Independent Wesleyan Sunday School Treat.

Miss Caudwell is absent from school this week. She is sitting for the Certificate Examination at Leicester. Miss C. Scholes, whose apprenticeship terminated June 30^th is taking her class.

Verified registers. J. Colson.

The school will be closed this afternoon for the Park Road Baptist Sunday School Treat.

Standard IV had a walk to the Nen this afternoon to see the water plants in their natural surroundings (Lesson – plants of the river-side.)

Standard III had a walk up the Irchester Road this afternoon to learn about climbing plants. They set off at 3.30 in charge of Misses Colson & Scholes.

School is closed this afternoon for the Church of England Sunday School Treat.

This  morning Standards IV, V, VI & VII are not keeping strictly to the timetable. Each class is having a singing lesson so that we may have some singing this afternoon, when the Certificates and Prizes earned by the girls for writing an essay on "Alcohol and Digestion" are to be distributed at 3.45. 4 Prizes are to be awarded and 56 certificates. One girl, May Morris has gained 100 marks out of 100 possible marks. Rev. Roe is to officiate.

School closes this morning for the Mid-Summer Holiday – 1 month, re-opening September 3^rd.