NRS-23835 | Programme and lesson register [Mendooran Central School]

The role of the register was to facilitate planning of lessons over the year and to demonstrate to the teacher's superiors that the syllabus was covered.Each teacher maintained a programme and lessons register for each class. The program register covered an academic year. There is an introductory page setting out the name of the school, the grade, the dates of the terms, the average age of the pupils, the name of the teacher and the date of assignment to the class. The volumes are sub-divided into terms. Within each term there is a double-page spread for English and Mathematics to be entered, and a single page for other subjects such as Natural Science, History, Geography, Music, Art, and Manual and Needlework. These pages are sub-divided into sections which the teacher completed indicating briefly what had been achieved in each week of term e.g. the English pages are divided into reading, the library, poetry and prose, speech training, sentence structure, vocabulary building, grammar, spelling and dictation, writing, oral and written expression, and dramatic work. The teacher completed lessons on all of these topics in the course of each week.