| Disgrifiad | 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
The first entry reads : "...this School was reopened under new conditions, after being closed for four months. Through the kindness and liberality of the owner Sir George Meyrick Bart. the school is to be carried on, and maintained solely by him. The School is to be conducted as an Elementary school for the education of all the children within the parish of Llangadwaladr and the children of Bodorgan employees within the said parish - free of charge".
On. p. 15 there is a reference that the girls are knitting woollen mufflers for the British soldiers at the front engaged in the war with France and Russia against Germany and Austria in France and Belgium
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7 reports of religious instruction at Llangadwaladr School made by the Bangor Diocesan Inspector, 1905 January 26 - 1915 July 6
2 forms completed by the Bangor Diocesan Inspector with details regarding religious instruction at Llangadwaladr School, 1900 January 19-1901 January 24 |