NRS-17298 | Register of Admission, Progress and Withdrawal [Wattley Hill 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 contains 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 and date of leaving the school are also recorded. The format of the volumes makes provision to record any occupation entered into by the pupil on leaving school, but over time this column comes to be used rather to indicate the school to which a pupil may have transferred.Girls and boys are listed on opposite pages in order of admission, and numbered in two distinct sequences from the beginning of the volume. The last enrolments are entered in 1958, and the volume records the further progress of those pupils still at the school until the transfer of the greater number of them to other schools on the 26th March, 1959.