England School Records Minutes of Governors, Managers, and Boards (National Institute)

Minutes of Governors, Managers and Boards
Many of these survive, including some from ancient schools. The local county record office or archives will usually know where those in their area are located even if they don’t have them in their holdings list. Minutes deal with administrative matters such as:


 * Finances
 * Building maintenance
 * Plans, drawings or photographs of the school buildings.
 * Curriculum and Policies
 * Teachers and other staff—employment, salaries, holidays.
 * Pupils are mentioned only in exceptional circumstances, except where the minutes also act as an admittance, school log or punishment book.

Some records have been microfilmed, and examples of a range of activities in minutes are shown below.

Chart: Overseers of Poor Agreement to Pay a Lace Teacher in Bedfordshire 1596

Chart: Minutes of Trustees of Greencoat School in Stepney, Middlesex - Film 1,752194

Chart: Extracts from Minutes of Wapping, Charity School 1808

Chart: Appointment of Schoolmaster for Salisbury Methodist School 1845 - Film 1526366

Chart: Managers’ Minutes of Upton County Primary School, Bexley, Kent

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