NRS-16530 | Register of Admission, Progress and Withdrawal - Infants' Department [Boolaroo 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 Admission Registers for the Infants Department at Boolaroo Public School constitute a distinct and separate series from the registers for the main (primary) school. This series was maintained from 1926, but retrospective entries into the Admission Register were made for all pupils already in the Infants’ Department at that time. These duplicate entries in the main series of registers, in which each of these pupils is recorded as having transferred to the Infants’ School on the 1st of April, 1926 (which appears to be the date on which the Infants’ Department was established as a separate department of the school).Girls and boys are listed on opposite pages in order of admission. Entries are numbered consecutively. Until the end of 1942, boys and girls are numbered in two separate continuous sequences. Thereafter new sequences for boys and girls are begun at the start of each school year.These volumes contain information pertaining to each student 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 and date of leaving the school are also recorded. Provision is made in the pre-printed format of the book to record any occupation entered into by a pupil on leaving school; in the present instance, this last column is normally used to record the school to which a pupil may have transferred, which in the overwhelming majority of cases means simply their going up to the Primary department of the school.Admission registers in paper format ceased in 1999 when the department moved to recording enrolment details in electronic format.