NRS-16517 | Programme and lesson registers [Birmingham Gardens Infants School]

The role of the register was to faciliate 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 their class. The programme register covered a school 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. At the end of each term is an unstructured page. The programme is otherwise set out in pre-printed pages. At the left-hand edge of each verso page is a column marked with week numbers, and each term is prefaced by a second column in which is recorded the central theme which is to unify each week’s teaching. There is a three-and-a-half-page spread for each term’s English programmes, and half- to one-page spreads for other subjects. With slight variations from year to year, the weekly programme is set out under the following subjects: English, Natural Science (or Nature Study), Arithmetic, Scripture, Social Studies, Music, Health Education, Physical Education, and Art and Handicrafts (or Handwork). “English” is subdivided into Reading, Language Skills, Language Activities and Literature. The teacher completed lessons on all of these topics in the course of each week.