Archived documents

These documents are held at The Hold, 131 Fore Street, Ipswich. IP4 1LN

http://www.suffolkarchives.co.uk

School logbooks

  • Logbook: 1925 to 1937
  • Logbook: 1937 to 1953
  • Logbook: 1953 to 1983
  • Logbook: 1983 to 1995
  • Logbook: 1995 to 2000

School minute books

  • Minute book of Managers’ meetings: 1903 to 1947
  • Minute book of Managers’ meetings: 1947 to 1968
  • Minute book of Parent Teacher Association: 1964 to 1978

Admissions Register and Staff Record Book

  • School Admissions’ Register: 1926 to 1972
  • School Staff Record Book: 1933 to 1983

Head teacher’s reports

  • Head teacher’s Report to Managers (September 1977)
  • Head teacher’s Report on Religious Instruction to Managers (23 Jan 1978)
  • Head teacher’s Report to Managers (Jan 1979)
  • Head teacher’s Reports to Governors: 1997 to 2000

Letters relating to the lack of a Trust Deed for the original schools at Great Barton

  • Memorandum of Agreement between Sir Henry Charles John Bunbury and managers of Great Barton School (1918)
  • Letter to the Revd Duval about lease and Trust Deed (14 December 1949)
  • Letter to Mr Creese about a boundary fence (24 May 1962)
  • Letter from Messrs. Bankes, Ashton & Co. to Mr Hooper about ownership of Great Barton School (20 February 1969)

Documents and articles relating to the current Great Barton School buildings

  • Register of Title, Title number SK1835 (Land Registry 2008) (purchased from Land Registry)
  • letter to governors from CEO re replacement of Great Barton School (26 September 1963)
  • letter from governors to CEO re replacement of Great Barton School (13 November 1963)
  • detail from minutes giving approval for a new school in Great Barton – 1966
  • Plan of Great Barton Lower School, School Lane – 1967 (hand-drawn by Sylvia Taylor)
  • Plan of Great Barton School, School Road – 1967 (Suffolk Architects Department)
  • Village Schools in Suffolk – 1960s (article about the new school building)
  • The Architectural Review – Vol CXLVII No. 875 (January 1970), p.25. ‘Village Schools in Suffolk, Building Appraisal No.5’
  • ‘Village Schools in West Suffolk’ (Era: Journal of the Eastern Region of the Royal Institute of British Architects, vol.1, No.3, p.24).
  • Planning application – standalone classroom block and WC – 2013

School inspection reports

  • Inspection of Returns: 1872.
  • Great Barton School Religious Instruction Report  – 17.07.1942
  • Great Barton School Religious Instruction Report – 17.05.1955

Correspondence between Great Barton School and the Education Department – 1873 to 1918 (purchased from National Archives)

  • Minutes from the Education Department: 1873 to 1875
  • Correspondence with the Education Department: 1891 to 1900
  • Board of Education Accommodation: 1909 to 1910
  • Board of Education Inspector’s Report: 1914
  • Correspondence with the Board of Education: 1917 to 1918

Governors’ Annual Report for Parents – Great Barton Primary School

  • Governors’ Annual Report for Parents 1990
  • Governors’ Annual Report for Parents 1991
  • Governors’ Annual Report for Parents 1994
  • Governors’ Annual Report for Parents 1995
  • Governors’ Annual Report for Parents 1996

Great Barton School brochures

  • School brochure 2003
  • School brochure 2004
  • School brochure 2006

Information from Suffolk County Council

  • School Reorganisation in the Beyton and Ixworth Areas (West Suffolk Education Office, 1971)
  • Future of Very Small Schools in Suffolk (1980)
  • Suffolk Voluntary Controlled Schools  (Articles of Government) Order 1989           (Suffolk County Council Local Education Authority, 1986)
  • Suffolk Voluntary Controlled Primary Instrument of Government (Schools under 100 pupils) Order 1989 (Suffolk County Council Local Education Authority, 1986)

Miscellaneous items

  • Village Study (part of) by Senior Class (1963)
  • School lunch menu – April to July 1986