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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 1037 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Wynyard Training College: teacher training notes of E.O. Child

Covering Dates: 1948-1949

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Catalogue Description

Records deposited on long-term loan, 18 August 1993

(Acc: 2154(D))

Notebooks kept by E.O. Child while training as a teacher at Wynyard Training College, 1948 - 1949

E.O. Child trained as a nanny before the Second World War and served in the W.R.A.F. during the war. She finished her career as head-teacher at Castle Nursery School, Tamworth, 1979

Catalogue Contents

Ref: D/X 1037/1

Notes on the rook; a hedgerow study; migration; vegetative reproduction; bee-keeping; bird flight; soils; horticultural operations; life history of the garden pea, mustard, vegetable marrow, sunflower, wheat, maize and scarlet runner; reproduction in flowering plants; reproduction in animals: earthworm, fish, birds, rabbits; feeding in green plants; the dytiscus water beetle; indoor gardens; tree study; wild birds, 17 December 1948 - 1949
(1 file)

Ref: D/X 1037/2

'A Moorland Study': a study of Osmotherley Moor showing typical flora and fauna, with pressed specimens of the former, 1 October 1948
(1 file)

Ref: D/X 1037/3

Notes on aims and methods in the teaching of music, c.1948
(1 booklet)

Ref: D/X 1037/4

Texts of songs suitable for use with children, c.1948
(1 booklet)

Ref: D/X 1037/5

Diary and report on final teaching practice at Murray Road Nursery School, Chester-le-Street, 20 June - 15 July 1949
(1 file)

Ref: D/X 1037/6

College photograph taken outside Wynyard Hall, c.1949
(1 photograph, 11cm. x 25cm., black and white)

Ref: D/X 1037/7

College song for Wynyard Training College, n.d.
(1 paper, typescript)



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