Catalogue description Bristol Education Committee

ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS:

Minutes:

Signed minutes

Copy minutes

Sub-committee and Committee minutes (collated series)

Minutes (collated yearly series)

Air Raid Precaution Sub-committee

Children's Safety Sub-Committee

Child Welfare (Provision of Clothing) Sub-committee

Cookery and Housewifery Sub-committee

Day Continuation Schools Sub-committee

Education (Joint Advisory) Committee

Elementary Education Committee

Evacuation Committee

Evening Schools Sub-committee

Finance Committee

Furnishing Committee

Further Education Committee

General Purposes Committee

Health and Education (Joint) Sub-committee

Higher Education Committee

Industrial and Special Schools Committee

Provision of Meals Committee

Post-war Reconstruction Committee

Primary Education Committee

Scholarships Sub-committee

School Attendance (Exemptions) Committee

Schools Management Committee

Science and Art and Technical Instruction Committee

Scripture Committee

Secondary Education Sub-committee

Sites and Buildings Committee

Special Committee

Rota Sub-committee

Special Services Committee

Special Schools Managers' Meetings

Special Subjects Sub-committee

Staffing Sub-committee

Standing Committee

Junior Technical Schools Committee

Transfer of Pupils to Post-Primary Schools Advisory Committee

Youth and Community Sub-committee

Visiting Committees

Maudlin Street School Charity

District 22 Managers' Meetings

Agendas and members' papers:

Agendas and notices of motions

Declaration books

Lists of members

Reports:

Annual reports (black series)

Annual reports (Accountant's Department series)

Annual reports (blue series)

Annual reports (red series)

Annual reports (unbound series)

Development and reconstruction reports

Schools Medical Officer's reports (main series)

Schools Medical Officer's reports (duplicate series)

Reports on social trends

Visitors' records:

Rotas

FINANCIAL RECORDS:

Accounts:

Abstracts of accounts

Financial statements

General Journals

Expenditure Journals

Buildings and Equipment Committee accounts

Accounts Due

Ledgers:

General ledgers

Receipt ledgers

Salaries and petty cash ledgers

Treasurer's books

Rent books

Registers marked 'Rents etc'

Schools ledgers

Cash Books:

General cash books

Petty cash books

Salaries cash books

Salaries:

Salary sheets and payrolls

Salary and payroll summaries

Salary analyses

Salary scales

Salaried service papers

Superannuation records:

Bristol School Board superannuation

Education Committee superannuation

Superannuation sheets

Miscellaneous:

Expenditure codes

MANAGEMENT RECORDS:

Records created by central government:

Correspondence

Board of Education reports and circulars

Chief Medical Officer of Education reports

Education in England and Wales - Reports and Statistics

HMI reports

Acts of Parliament

Schedules for Ministry of Education forms

Attendance records:

Summaries of attendance returns

Attendance returns

Attendance returns, District A

Attendance returns, District B

Attendance returns

Notices of removal

Correspondence:

In-letters

Out-letters

Inspection Reports of Council Officers:

City Surveyor's reports

Reports to Town Council

Evening Institutes' Inspectors reports

Stock and Purchasing:

School meals

Inventories

Estimates

Requisitions

Staff records:

Chairman's Appointments books

Appointments

Increments

Resignations

Student teachers

Managers

Temporary teachers

Staff sickness

Scholarships:

Junior scholarships

Chairman's scholarship records

Teacher exhibitioners

Intermediate and senior scholarships

Evening class scholarships

Scholarship summaries

Syllabus:

Religious Education

ILLUSTRATIVE MATERIAL:

Printed Material:

Newscuttings

Physical Training

Extra-curricular activities

Year books and directories (bound series)

Year books and directories

Handbooks and regulations

Historical Material:

Records relating to royalty

Centenary of the Elementary Education Act of 1870

600th anniversary of Bristol becoming a county

Photographs:

Group photographs

Special Schools

Plans:

School plans

Area plans

ALLIED MATERIAL:

Miscellaneous:

Records

Artefacts

The records were deposited at Bristol Record Office in 1963, with further deposits in 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1979 and 1982. Some records originally kept by Avon County Council were transferred to Bristol Record Office in April 1996

All records created by Bristol School Board were transferred to Bristol Education Committee in 1903. Where records were created by the Board but completed by the Committee, these records have usually been catalogued as part of the Education Committee collection.

Bristol Education Committee was appointed by the Council on March 30 1903 when it took over the functions of Bristol School Board, abolished by the 1902 Education Act. Its jurisdiction covered both elementary and secondary education within the city, with responsibility for both church and board schools.

The system of national education envisaged by the 1944 Education Act was established in the city, with nursery, primary, secondary and further education all provided by Bristol Education Committee. The most obvious features of post-war education in Bristol were the establishment of comprehensive secondary schools, beginning in Hengrove and Lockleaze in 1954, the expansion of the University of Bristol and the establishment of Bristol Polytechnic (later the University of the West of England).

The establishment of Avon County Council in 1974 brought a temporary end to Bristol City Council's role as a Local Education Authority; this status was revived in 1996 when Avon was abolished and the new unitary authority for Bristol was formed.