NRS-23807 | Daily Report Book [Dover Heights High School]

The Daily Report Books were required to be kept under Regulations in accordance with the Public Schools Acts of 1866, issued on 27 February 1867, s. 17, and are the daily record of attendance for each class of the school. Their pre-printed format provides for this record to be kept by day, class and gender. Figures for boys’ attendance are entered on the left-hand page of each opening, girls’ attendance figures on the right. Each page is divided into four vertical columns, and each column divided horizontally into five days. Within each day, one line is provided for each class from First to Seventh. For each class, the total enrolment on each day and the average number in attendance on that day are both recorded, and the total daily figures are then made up for the whole school. Average attendance figures for the school as a whole are also made up on a weekly basis, and provision is made to enter weekly totals of school fees received.On occasion the relevant page of a volume might be annotated to record events such as public and school holidays.