NRS-17176 | Registers of Admission, Progress and Withdrawal [Segenhoe 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 f is represented by three volumes, probably the last three of an original four; the volume which once began the series is no longer present, having been superseded in October, 1929. These volumes contain information pertaining to each pupil including: date of admission; pupil's name, date of birth and 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. Although the pages of the final volume of this series are printed with a slightly different layout, they record essentially the same information as the earlier volumes.In the volumes of the series dating from prior to 1972, girls and boys are listed on opposite pages in order of admission, and are numbered in separate sequences. Until the end of 1956 the numbering in each sequence is continuous from year to year; thereafter, the numbering of the entries recommences at the beginning of each school year, and the last two digits of the relevant year-number are suffixed to each entry-number. In the final volume of the series, which commences in 1972, boys’ and girls’ entries form one sequence and appear on the same page. In the earliest surviving volume of the series, which in all probability was originally the second volume, the first fifty-six boys’ entries and fifty-five girls’ entries each have a second entry-number added in the margin alongside the main number. These marginal entries are headed “Old Reg. No.” The entries so treated were evidently transferred from the previous volume of the Admission Registers in October, 1929, when the volume in which they now appear was commenced. They extend from 1922 to 1929, and were originally numbered 109-164 (boys) and 93-147 (girls). In like manner, when the volume next following was commenced in 1953, all entries for admissions dating from between May, 1948 and the end of 1952 were copied to it from its predecessor, although in this instance the numbering in the new volume merely repeated and continued that employed in the old.The last volume of the series is an expandable one, in the form of individual sheets held between two separate card covers, and intended to be fastened with brass bolts, only one of which is now present. The others are of the conventional codex form.