NRS-16630 | Registers of Admission, Progress and Withdrawal [Carrington 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. This series 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.Girls and boys are listed on opposite pages in order of admission. Entries are numbered consecutively, with different numbering sequences maintained for girls and for boys. In the surviving volumes of this series, the numbering begins anew at the beginning of each register volume until 1946, whereafter new sequences are begun at the start of each school year. In the volume for the years 1892-1903, however, a second numbering, in a different hand to that responsible for most of the volume, has been entered in the margins. This renumbering only involves a minority of the names in this volume, and those mostly the more recent ones, which suggests that it may have been carried out at or not long after the end of this register in 1903, and that it refers to enrolments still current at that point.One of the two Primary School register volumes for the period beginning in 1885 (NRS16630/2/[1]) is a copy of the other (NRS16630/1/[B8174]), including some enrolments omitted from the earlier volume, and omitting those pupils whose enrolments were no longer current after mid-1895. This copy then becomes the volume of record until the end of 1896. The earlier volume (NRS16630/1/[B8174]) is much damaged, and may already have been so at the time when the copy was made. It is now missing its first two leaves, which contained girls’ enrolments 1-36 and boys’ enrolments 1-71, along with portions of the third leaf.The entries in these two volumes include enrolments for pupils of all ages until the end of 1889. A separate register was then maintained for the school’s Infants’ Department until the end of 1896. Thereafter a new register (NRS16630/1/[B8175]) was begun, in which current enrolments in both departments were consolidated into a single record, which was continued during subsequent years. Entries in the new register are therefore retrospective from 1892 to 1896, and the enrolments during this period which were no longer current at the beginning of 1897 are omitted from the volume. It is possible that the Infants’ Department was once more amalgamated administratively with the Primary Department at about this time, and that this is what the new, consolidated Admission Register reflects. One leaf, containing 32 entries for boys’ enrolments during the period 1892-1895, is now missing at the beginning of the consolidated register for 1892-1903 (NRS16630/1/[B8175]).The Infants’ Department register volume which was commenced in March 1890 (NRS16630/2/[2]) was in use only for two months, after which a copy (NRS16630/2/[3]) was made and continued until the end of 1896. The reason for the making of this copy is not apparent.A separate Infants’ School register was recommenced in 1963. The entries in the volume which begins this part of the series (NRS16630/1/[B8178]) are retrospective until the beginning of 1963, as explained by the note entered on its title-page: “Names and Numbers 1960-61 + 62 Transferred from Primary Book. Infants School commenced 29.1.63.”Admission registers in paper format ceased in 1999 when the department moved to recording enrolment details in electronic format.