NRS-16922 | Register of Admission, Progress and Withdrawal [McCully's Gap 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 from McCully’s Gap Public School consists of a single volume, in which are recorded all admissions during the entire period of the school’s operation, from 1916 to 1969. This volume 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 is also recorded; this last column is also used to record the school to which a pupil may have transferred.Girls and boys are listed on opposite pages in order of admission, and numbered in sequence from the beginning of the volume. Girls’ and boys’ entries are numbered separately. 160 boys and 163 girls are recorded as having been admitted during the period of the school’s operation.Attached to the inside front cover of the volume is a pocket, which contains forms of Application for Enrolment dated between 1957 and 1969.On the final page of boys’ entries, some entries have been corrected by means of a slip of paper pasted over the original writing. As far as may be made out, the underlying writing consists of the record of three girls’ admissions, entered on this page in error; these have been re-entered on the correct page.