Log book of Llangadwaladr National School, Anglesey

Scope and Content

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

During this period, the school had as many as 5 head masters

Attached :

List of poetry for recitation, objects for infants, school songs etc.

Loosely inserted :

Certificate that Owen Edwards is unable to attend school, 1895 May 24

Related Material

See also Llwydiarth Esgob 642 for details regarding the dispute between the Anglesey Education Committee and Sir George Meyrick of Bodorgan concerning the provision of a Public Elementary School at Llangadwaladr, 1903-1910