The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42

School Diary or Log-Booh

School Diary or Log-Booh.

34. In every school receiving annual grants, the managers must provide out of the school funds, besides the Code for the year, and registers of attendance (Article 17 h),—
( a.) A diary or log-book.
( b.) A portfolio to contain official letters, which should be numbered (1, 2, 3, etc.) in the order of their receipt.

35. The diary or log-book must be stoutly bound and contain not less than 300 ruled pages.

36. The principal teacher must make at least once a week in the log-book an entry which will specify ordinary progress, visits of managers and other facts concerning the school or its teachers, such as the dates of withdrawals, commencements of duty, cautions, illness, etc., which may require to be referred to at a future time, or may otherwise deserve to be recorded.

37. No reflections or opinions of a general character are to be entered in the log-book.

38. No entry once made in the log-book may be removed or altered otherwise than by a subsequent entry.

39. The summary of the inspector's report after his annual visit, or any visit made without notice, and any remarks made upon it by the Department, when communicated to the managers, must be immediately copied verbatim into the log-book, with the names and standing (certificated teacher of the—-class, or pupil-teacher of the—--year, or assistant teacher) of all teachers to be continued on, or added to, or withdrawn from, the school staff, according to the decision of the Department upon the inspector's report. The correspondent of the managers must sign this entry, which settles the school staff for the year.

40. The inspector will call for the log-book and portfolio at every visit, and will report whether they appear to have been properly kept. He will specially refer to the entry made pursuant to Article 39, and he will require to see entries accounting for any subsequent change in the school staff. He will also note in the log-book every visit paid without notice (Article 12), making an entry of such particulars as require the attention of the managers.