Boys Department - Poetry for the Standards 1884 - 1885
I - Common Gift
II - The Spring Walk - T Miller?
III - The Battle of Blenheim - Southey
IV - The wreck of the Hesperus - Longfellow
IV-VII - The Deserted Village - Goldsmith
Poetry proposed for Recitation for 1889- 1890
Stand III " Ye Mariners of England" T Campbell and " The Father's Return" M Alexander
Stand IV "Life among the Mountains" Mary Howiss and "The Sea" Barry Cornwall
Stand V, VI + VII Selections from "The Battle of Flodden" Scott
Approved by H M Inspector
Senior Girls History Lessons
History Lessons 1904 - 1905
Standard I Divisions I + II
1 Manners + customs of Ancient Britons
2 Caractacus
3 Boadicea
4 What the Romans did
5 The New Forest + William Rufus
6 The White Ship
7 The Lion Heart
8 Robin Hood + His Men
9 Princes in the Tower
10 The First Printer
Standard I Division III
1 "Once Upon a Time " + "Long Ago"
2 Boadicea
3 Alfred the Great, Prince + King
4 Canute the Dane
5 The Lion Heart
6 Princes in the Tower
Standard II
1 Battle of Hastings
2 The Great Charter
3 Caxton, The First English printer
4 Francis Drake
5 The Great Plague
6 The Great Fire
7 Richard Arkwright
8 Bonnie Prince Charlie
9 David Livingstone
10 The Slave Trade
Senior Girls Geography Lessons
Schemes of Geography ST. II 1905 - 1906
Notions of Geography leading up to easy definitions.
Land and water generally.
Shape and size of the earth.
General knowledge of map of England.
Scheme of Geography ST. I 1905 - 1906
Shape of the Earth.
Knowledge of parts of a map (Map of England to be used).
Lessons on:- A River, an Island, Lakes and Ponds, Hills and Mountains. Knowledge of direction + points of a compass.
General local Geography e.g River Tees, River Tyne, Chief Towns in District etc.
Infants School - Recitations
The Big Policeman
Voices in the …….?
Raining Always Raining
The Lucky Bluebottle
Saturday Night
Crossing the Water
Mabel Sixpence
Santa Claus and the Mouse
An Accident
Washing Dolly