Croydon Education Office: Administrative Papers
Part of Croydon Borough Council
These volumes are bound files of correspondence, reports and other papers compiled by Croydon School Board, (1870 - 1903) and its successor, the Education Office of Croydon Corporation, from 1903 onwards. They fall into two groups: those on general topics and those relating to individual schools, (the school portfolios). Many of these sets of papers appear to have been bound up as volumes in 1903 (when education became the direct responsibility of the local authority; in 1914; and about 1932 (when there was a major reorganisation of the education service). The 1920s and 1930s files were kept in spring-backed binders, until they were bound as volumes in the early 1990s. The files seem to have fallen into disuse during World War Two (when, for example, the system of regular annual returns from schools was discontinued) and were only added to sporadically in the 1940s.
Christchurch (Church of England) Primary School
Christ Church C of E Primary School
11 school exercise books, used while at Croydon Boys British School. These exercise books were used for Harold Bings homework; the British School was unusual among elementary schools in Croydon in setting homework in this period. the school was noted for an emphasis on artisitic production (drawing, painting, illumination, etc), which is a feature of these books. The books are marked by teachers, but also by the Headmaster, W H Jarvis, at his weekly inspection (normally with blue pencil in a circle).
Harold Frederick Bing
Christ Church: Wildboars Infant School: School Building Grant Plans
Part of School Building Grant Plans
Croydon British Schools: School Building Grant Plans
Part of School Building Grant Plans
Log Books (3): 1863 - 1918, 1918 - 1955, 1955 - 1988
Admission Registers (11):
All Age School: 1879 - 1905
Infants: 1904 - 1928, 1928 - 1952, 1952 - 1956, 1945 - 1948 (under 5)
Post Infants: 1905 - 1927, 1927 - 1942, 1942 - 1959 (Infants and Juniors from 1955)
Primary: 1959 - 1979 (Juniors only since 1968), 1979 - 2000, 2000 - 2007.
The remainder of the collection has yet to be catalogued:
Governors Minutes: 1975 - 1998, 1986 - 1991, 1991 - 1994
Confirmation and communion books (4): 1913 - 1953, 1940 - 1960, 1957 - 1964, 1961 - 1987.
Detention Book: 1994 - 2001
Golden Book Awards 1997 - 1999
Vision Testing Book
10 certificates
1 vol Head Teachers Reports 1993 - 2001
Inspection Report 1992
13 Plastic Envelopes containing events.
1 Green Binder containing Diocesan Inspectors Reports, 1910s and 1920s, Letter congratulating Head on keeping school going during 1923 pay dispute, head teachers contract 1923, pencil notes on early date of RC education in Croydon, papers and photos of modern school production The Giant Slayer.
3 Team photos
2 School Journey Booklets: Dieppe 1970, Dieppe 1975.
3 Plastic Envelopes containing: behaviour expectations, Architects Brief, 1966/7; Notes for Teachers.
1 Order of Service, thanksgiving mass, Late Head Teacher, 17 Dec 2001
St Marys RC Junior School
Tavistock Infants and Junior Schools
Tavistock Infants and Junior Schools