Log book of Llangadwaladr National School, Anglesey

This material is held atArchifdy Prifysgol Bangor / Bangor University Archives

  • Reference
    • GB 222 BOD/1709
  • Dates of Creation
    • January 1897-September 1906

Scope and Content

Includes details regarding pupil attendance, sickness, bad behaviour and very often annual reports of government and diocesan inspectors on school performance. Children very often failed to attend school due to illness, bad weather, Sunday School festivities, local fairs and many were employed for potato picking, crow-scaring, weeding, gathering stones, threshing, game beating etc. Others are reported as having gone blackberry or mushroom picking, clapping for Easter or "cockling" in Malltraeth Bay

On p. 230 there is a reference to three children leaving for the United States

Roughly indexed

Attached :

List of poetry for recitation, reading books etc.

2 lists of books and stationery received from Philip, Son and Nephew, Liverpool

Loosely inserted :

List of 30 subjects for object lessons, 31 May 1900