Darlington, Gurney Pease School
Reference: E/Da Catalogue Title: Darlington, Gurney Pease School Area: Catalogue Category: Education Records Description:
Covering Dates: 1874-1940
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- Darlington, Gurney Pease School
Catalogue Description
School opened in 1874 to commemorate Mr. Gurney Pease and was taken over by the school board in 1878. A separate infants department opened in 1887 and was amalgamated with the juniors in 1925.Catalogue Contents
Log Books (Ref: E/Da 38-41)Ref: E/Da 38
Log book, April 1874 - January 1900 (junior mixed from 1887)
Very detailed with references to visits Mrs. Gurney Pease; problems discipline; poor attendance; p.142, attendance book; details school books; social condition of pupils; p.376, bread and milk from charity organisation society; incentives; p.281, examination flag; loose newspaper cutting reporting monthly meeting school board, 1884
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
Ref: E/Da 39Log book (junior mixed), indexed, February 1900 - May 1919
Detail similar to E/Da 38
Includes: p.32, programme for memorial service Queen Victoria 1901; p.40, circular about jubilee fund for disabled in Boer War; p.42, receipt for 6/1d. for jubilee fund 1901; p.53,60, admission pupils aged 10, 11 not knowing letters, 1901; p.84, notice from Medical Officer of Health recommending use of sponges and water basins to clean slates because of danger of infection; p.94, retirement presentation to headmaster, Mr. Calvert, with his comments on school history, 1903; p.107, programme for prize distribution, 1904; p.310, educational trip to descend Chilton Pit, 1913; p.311, details experiment in conjunction with school in Southampton to measure solar altitude and thus measure earth after manner of Eretosthene, 1913; loose draft pencil description of incident in which some children involved in altercation with drunk man, n.d.; letter from town clerk's office requesting subscription to Darlington monument to South African Brave, 1902; letter from H. Pike Pease offering Navy League map of world to school, 9 April 1907; notice about physical exercises competition, 24 July 1908; programme swimming gala, 24 September 1909; copy H.M.I. report, 1910; circular with information for those seeking appointments as pupil and student teachers, 1911-1912; letter from Southampton school giving results measurement of sun's altitude and description of method used, 24 October 1913; figures of attendance, 1913-1915; age summary pupils, 1916
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
Ref: E/Da 40Log book (junior mixed), May 1919 - February 1940
Includes: list teachers at front; p.155, inauguration house system, 1926
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
Ref: E/Da 41Log book (infants), October 1887 - July 1925
Includes: reports indexed details numbers and grants, 1887 - 1895; loose letter from Education committee agreeing to provide Honours Board for Junior Mixed School, 3 September 1924
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
Miscellaneous (Ref: E/Da/G 502)Ref: E/Da/G 502Report by H. J. Dean, H.M. Inspector on the Mixed Department, 18 February 1910
Originally enclosed in E/Da 39
(2 papers, printed)
