NRS-17041 | Registers of Admission, Progress and Withdrawal [Mirra View Public School]

The purpose of an admission register was to record basic details about children admitted to the school, and about their parents or guardians. The registers were also used to record the progress of the children through various classes and the date of their leaving the school.The series from consists of two volumes, which together cover the entire period of the school’s operation. The first of these volumes contains information pertaining to each pupil including: date of admission; pupil's name; date of birth; religious denomination; name of previous school and date of leaving. The following details are recorded about the child's parents or guardians: name, residence and occupation. The pupil's date of admission to each subsequent grade, date of leaving the school and any occupation entered into on leaving school are also recorded; this last column is also regularly used to indicate the school to which a pupil may have transferred. In this volume, girls and boys are intended to be listed on opposite pages in order of admission. The second volume differs from the first in adding a column to record the pupil’s gender rather than recording girls and boys on separate pages, recording a pupil’s age on admission rather than their date of birth, omitting their parent or guardian’s occupation, and adding a separate column to record the school, college or University to which they may have transferred.The first of these volumes lists girls and boys on opposite pages until 1951, and numbers these entries in two sequences, continuously from year to year. The entries for 1952 are all boys’ admissions, but are numbered continuously with the sequence of girls’ entries. From 1953 onwards boys’ and girls’ entries form one sequence, the practice of entering the two sexes on opposite pages is discontinued, and entries are numbered according to a new system under which the first two digits of each entry-number are the last two digits of the number of the year of admission. In 1962, however, the record reverts to the earlier practice of entering boys’ and girls’ admissions on opposite pages, and the numbering system is changed again, to one in which it is the last two digits of the entry number which are taken from the year number. This system remains in use until the end of the series, initially in two parallel sequences for boys and girls, and from 1971 in one consolidated sequence for both genders.The first volume of the series includes no entries for the years 1944 and 1945, and commences 1946 with the note “School Re-opened 8/4/46.”