Rushden Echo, 6th July 1900, transcribed by Kay Collins
Rushden Children and their Attendances at School Yesterday, at the Newton-road Infants' School, medals were presented to those children who had made the best attendances during the year. Five children made every possible attendance except one when there was a terrible snowstorm. Mr F Newman, a member of the School Board, attended to distribute the medals. He said he was very pleased to find that the children had attended so well. Though none had made full attendance, some had only been absent once, and that was during the week of the snowstorms. He noticed that many of the scholars had never been late. He hoped they would always be so punctual, and when they grow to be men and women they might never be late in their business. Some of the little ones had only been absent through sickness which they could not help.
The following were the recipients of the medals:-
Absent Once Out of 419 Possible Attendances
Frances Percival *
Frank Percival
Rose Darnell *
Lily Parker
Frances Gutteridge *
Those marked * were not late once
Absent Only Through Sickness
Arthur Curtis *
415
Millicent Denton *
Sidney Burgess *
416
Lucy Caldwell *
Rosie Harlow *
409
Serry Bennett *
Florence Whitworth *
412
Herbert Bates
Mabel Houldsworth *
410
Willie Smith
409
Cecil Peacock *
412
May Knight
415
Reginald Draper
409
Elsie Chettle
414
Sidney Smith *
410
Willkie Ager
411
Alice Chapman
411
Ethel Stapleton *
408
Nellie Partridge
410
Henry Rowthorne
415
Ada Groome
406
Frank Thurlow *
411
Mabel Hart
404
Oscar Ayres
413
Linda Smith
Cyril Bailey
415
Doris Ette *
Fred Robinson
417
Herbert Allen
Bertha Brawn
416
Ethel Brown *
Rushden Echo, 31st August 1900, transcribed by Kay Collins
Model Drawing—The following students at the Newton-road Schools have passed in drawing (model): Harry Wright, Frank Clarke, C M Watson.
