1880

June 28

School closed this week on account of measles.

Oct 15

There is still very poor attendance owing to Sir George shooting. Many of the bigger boys are required to bush beat.


1881

Jan 14

The weather towards the later part of the week is very severe and the roads became impossible. In consequence the greater part of scholars have been absent.

Jan 27

The weather has been unusually severe again. The inkwells are frozen and after being thawed they freeze again during school hours.

Feb 25

School closed for 4 days; Master ill.

June 3

The scholars locked the master out on the 30th May afternoon in commemoration of the 29th May, a custom which we may well dispose of. I had to flog T. Peacock rather severely for being insolent. This was the second offence of this kind and I felt it was my duty to make an example of him. The parents considered I punished him without cause and withdrew him.


1882

Oct 20

Coxwold feast on Monday. School closed for rest of the week in consequence of the dangerous illness of the master's wife.


1883

June 16

Ruth Farrar has been withdrawn to go to a Dame School.

Aug 17

Very irregular attendance: wet weather and whooping cough. Visit from Sir George Wombwell on Tuesday, who complains of the school being dirty


1884

Poetry for the coming year:
Standards IV, V, VI, VII - Lady of the Lake
Standard III - Lucy Gray
Standard II - The Woodmouse
Standard I - Over the Brook to Grandma

Songs for Infants
The Mill-wheel
Tick the Clock
Children We Should Love Each Other
If I Were A Little Bird

Songs for the Standards
Tap Tap Tap
Ring the Bells
The Squirrels
Round
Oh Come to the Mountain
Children We Should Love Each Other
The Little Sailor Boy
Oh Ye Hours

1884

Mar 7

James and Miles Allanson have been withdrawn. (Their parents sailed for America in early April.)

Oct 25

J. Wylie, F. Wylie and J Wylie are ill, the first two rather dangerously with diphtheria.

Oct 31

The Wylie children are very ill with scarlet fever, not diphtheria as reported last week.


1885

Jan 16

School closed this week: heavy snowstorms.

June 19

Emma Peacock the assistant fell heavily in a fit on Tuesday and was absent the following day ill.

Oct 16

It is with the greatest regret I have to record the severe illness of the correspondent of the school, the Rev. E Scott. A severe cold has been succeeded by a spinal complaint which has paralysed his limbs.

Dec 4

Holiday; the school has been required for the polling for the selection of a Member of Parliament.


1886

Jan 13

Mr R. Hyde, curate, has taken the scriptures this week.

Jan 29

I regret that H. Duck is dangerously ill.

Mar 28

My health is very indifferent and I still suffer from hoarseness of voice. Singing has been abandoned.

June 11

School closed on Friday in consequence of illness of Master's daughter.

June 18

School closed this week through the death of Amy Maud Duck, Master's daughter.

Dec 3

Two boys have been absent through ringworm this week.

Dec 10

Rev. E. Scott visited us on Friday and cautioned the children about sliding on the footpaths.

1887

Staff are James Duck (1st Class Certificate) and George Bardon (Pupil Teacher).

Jan 7

Rev. Scott visited us on Tuesday and again warned the boys about sliding on the road. The attendance again has been very low. The weather continues very severe, which prevents nearly all the younger children getting to school.

Jan 28

The school was closed on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday owing to the death of the Master's brother.

Feb 4

J. Masterman came to school to complain of the misconduct of 4 big boys who entered his house and threw the furniture out into the yard. The names of the offenders were sent to the managers.

Mar 4

The assistant, Miss Peacock, was taken ill. The infants class has been under my charge until Mrs Duck took the sewing.

Apr 13

G. & J. & A. Moss have been withdrawn, having left the district.

June 24

Holiday on Tuesday, the Queen's Jubilee. Between 400 and 500 people partook of tea in the schoolroom, which was fitted up and prettly decorated for the occasion. The attendance fell off considerably during the week.

July 15

A. Kitching is admitted from Husthwaite School.

Aug 5

Considering the time of year the attendance is well up this week.

Oct 28

William & Thomas Coates, aged 9 and 8, admitted. They have been taught by a governess and are lamentably backward.

Nov 18

Holiday on Friday afternoon by request of Mr Scott on the occasion of Prince Albert Victor's visit to Newburgh.

Dec 2

William Batty ran away from school on Thursday as he did not like dictation. He did not attend at all on Friday.


1888

June 14

Holiday on Tuesday, the school being occupied by the Wesleyans for their annual school treat and lecture. Mrs. Duck is still absent due to delicate health.

July 4

Received Diocesan Inspection report. The older children know their work well, many of the answers being intelligent and thoughtful. They have repetition in their examinations and were anxious to do their best. The younger children did very fairly. They are rather a large division for one teacher. Repetition was well said throughout the school.

July 20

Average attendance 90.4%. Very good considering the hay harvest and the older boys singling turnips.

Oct 26

The attendance has been irregular. Most of the boys are potato gathering.

1889

Jan 11

Admitted John and Ruth Knowles from Oulston; they have been pupils at a private school in Easingwold. They are very much behind in everything.

Received instructions from Lady Wombwell about the alterations required about the offices and playground. Arrangements have been made for the boys and girls to enter and leave the school by separate entrances and also for the girls to keep out of the boys' playground.

Jan 18

The registers were marked at 1 o'clock today in order that the children might leave a little earlier to permit the room being prepared for Miss Scott's temperance entertainment.

Feb 8

Two of the school's windows were blown out on Monday morning and the few children who had assembled were dismissed. Andrew Skelton was severely punished on Tuesday for going into the girls' offices and writing on the walls. That is the second offence.

Mar 22

Louisa Batty has withdrawn, having to leave the village to live in Northumberland. She would have passed the exam easily.

June 21

Many of the infants are suffering from whooping cough which has broken out in the village. Amy Kettlewell's attack has developed into congestion of the lungs and she is in a somewhat precarious state.

July 25

Holiday this afternoon. The Helmsley schools came to Coxwold for their annual trip out, and, it being a wet day, they had to use the schoolroom.

Dec 30

Thomas Wylie, 8 years, who has been ill a long time, died on the 26th. He was a promising boy and a favourite with all the school.


1889-90

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