16th
September
1874
1874
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The head teacher at Crickhowell British School must have been very surprised when all of the children in his youngest class turned up for lessons ! He wrote in the school Log Book in September 1874 that "something unusual" had happened... |
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16th
September
1874 |
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rare !) entry shown above reads : 16th September - "Something unusual in the attendance of the First Class today. All are present". A more common situation is shown in the entry below. This is from the Log Book of Llanbedr National School in 1890 : |
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12th
September
1890 |
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"The attendance has improved but is still very low, the fine weather keeps the parents and children still picking berries on the hills. The Attendance Officer visited and has sent warning notices to all who are absent. Average [attendance] 18.4 ". |
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Drawing
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Rob Davies |
The
berry-picking time was a regular reason for Prizes for turning up at school...
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children
being away from school in late August and early September. Whole families
would be out collecting wimberries
to be sold in the local markets. The Attendance Officer was unlikely to
have had much luck with his warning notices, because parents usually ignored
them - and some parents wouldn't have been able to read them !