3rd
April
1891
1891
| Opened school, but no one came ! | ||
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There are far more comments in Victorian
school Log Books about the number
of children who attended lessons than on any other topic. Almost
every diary entry started with a reference to it, and it was almost always
a complaint about poor attendances. |
| Pengenfford School |
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3rd
April
1891 |
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"Attendance miserable again this week. Whole families absent. Average only 25". | |
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27th
July
1891 |
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"Opened school this morning but not a child attended". |
| Llanfilo School |
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12th
June
1891 |
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"School very empty today". | |
| Cathedine School |
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1st
May
1896 |
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"...Sickness still prevails in the neighbourhood, but many of the children are employed in gardening and looking after sheep and cows. With 84 names on the Registers the average this week was 61.9". | ||
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The entry from Pengenfford
School in July 1891 was
written just before the start of the summer or 'Harvest
holidays', and it was always the weather and the timing of
the harvest that affected school attendances around that time of year.
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