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School Accounts from log books
School log books were kept by all schools, created by the head teacher, and act like a diary for the school; extracts through the years tell us how the school changed and illustrate key events that affected it. Updates on the weather are quite commonplace along with notes on attendance, lessons, and visitors but pupils are rarely mentioned by name without good cause. Teachers can also be traced through the log books and national events such as the two world wars & the Spanish flu outbreak. [CES 243/2/1-3]
"It has been bitterly cold in school this week. Running movements, games and skipping have been taken at frequent intervals to try and make the children warm.
7th December 1917
"Major Allison, medical superintendent, closed the school tonight for an indefinite time, owing to an outbreak of influenza in the sanatorium."
28th November 1918
"Four school children died from the effects of the influenza."
14th January 1919
"A gramophone was delivered at the school today. It is to be used to help the children to appreciate good music."
21st October 1924
"Miss Christina Bunnel, exchange teacher from Canada, has been observing in the school all day."
11th February 1938
"Owing to the passing of the National Health Act the Hospital today passes under State Control & the school is no longer under the management of the Committee of the Poor Children's Holiday Association."
5th July 1948
"Final day of the school year, and possibly the last official day of the existence of Stannington Children's Hospital School. It seems to be a very inappropriate ending for a school which has had such a long history of care for so many young people."
19th July 1985
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