Governors
Chairman: Edward Donner
Rev B M Cowie, Mrs Anson, Miss Ashton, Mrs E Behrens, E J Broadfield, Rev F F Cornish, Mrs R D Darbishire, Mrs Fraser, Mrs H Gaddum, Miss Gaskell, Dr Greenwood, O Heywood, W Hughes, H E Oakeley, Joseph Rice, Mrs Roby, C P Scott, Mrs C E Schwann, L Tatham, Joseph Thompson, Canon Tonge, Prof Wilkins, Canon Woodhouse
Treasurer: Mr E Donner
Auditors: Messrs Halliday, Pearson and Co
Hon Secretary: Mrs Roby
Clerk to the Governors: Edwin Marshall
General Information
The school is divided into Upper and Lower Sections.
The Prep is for girls under 10 and boys under 9 whose sisters are pupils of the school.
The Branch School at 2 Birch Mount, Eccles Old Road, Pendleton is for girls between the ages of 6 and 14 and boys under 9 whose sisters are pupils at the school.
Information given about the following:
admissions, fees, school hours, curriculum, religious instruction, homework, school reports to parents, the library, school dinners, examinations, exhibitions and scholarships, absence, holidays, the withdrawal of pupils.
Teaching Staff
[The academic qualifications of some of the staff are included]
Head Mistress: Miss Day
Mistress of the Preparatory School: Miss Tubbs
Mistress of Pendleton Branch School: Miss Butcher
Assistant Mistresses in the Upper School:
Miss Turnbull, Miss Bulley, Miss Dabis, Miss Dolby, Miss Alice England, Miss McCroben, Miss Adamson, Miss Dendy, Miss Gaffron, Miss M Hodgkinson, Miss Ingall, Miss Kent, Miss Northrop, Miss Perkins, Miss Pollard, Miss Rogers, Miss Rome, Miss Sanders, Miss Simpson, Miss Walker, Miss Welch, Miss Wilkins
Assistant Mistresses in the Lower School
Miss Kett, Miss Harrison, Miss Hodgkinson, Miss Leach, Miss A Smith, Miss C J Walsh
Visiting Teachers:
M. V Kastner, Mr Blacker, Sergeant Bosward, Miss Salomonson, Miss Macmillan, Miss Millar
Pendleton
The Governors draw attention to the new Branch School which has opened at Pendleton. It opened in January with 14 pupils, now has 35 pupils and has accommodation for 80 pupils. "The management" is under Miss Butcher who is under the supervision of Miss Day. The curriculum is the same as that taught at the High School so that when pupils transfer to the High School at the age of 14 there will be no disruption to their education.
T J Sanderson, Late Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge
Examiner's Report, 27 August 1885
Details given of the standards achieved by pupils in the following subjects:
Dictation, English Grammar, English Composition, English Language, Physical Geography, Political Geography, English History, French History, History of English Literature, Shakespeare, Political Economy, Arithmetic, Algebra, Euclid, Trigonometry, Conic Sections, Statics and Dynamics, Latin, Greek, Drawing.
J R Wilson Examiner's Report
Details given of the standards achieved by pupils in the following subjects:
French, Biology, Chemistry, Botany.
E Braunholtz
Examiner's Report
Details given of the standards achieved by pupils in the following subjects:
French Literature, German.
Edward Hecht
Examination in Music, 4 July 1885
Details given of the standards achieved by the following pupils in music: M Ferguson, Miss [sic] MacGill, G Broadley, M Birley, L Greenwood, E Mort, M Sharpley, G Mellin, M Warrington, B Wigglesworth, F Ewan.
Cambridge Higher Local Examination, 1885
Caroline Coignou was the only candidate in England who was placed in the First Class in Natural Science [Group E]
Details given of the standards achieved by the following pupils: F E Bevan, Celine Walsh, Alice Mitchell, Jane Harwood, Helen Gumpert, Fanny Evington, A M Woodhouse, Edith Eckersley, Mary Scott, Henrietta Parker, Ada Smith, Gertude Boon, Lilian Crighton, Alice Lawton, Jane Parker, Agnes Tonge.
Cambridge Junior Local Examination, 1885
Details given of the standards achieved by the following pupils: Margaret Lea, Amy Mullock, Frances Ledsham, Helen Smith, Edith Andrew, Ethel Fulton, Lily Peacock, Edith Robinson, Agnes Tonge, Kathleen Cavendish, Ellen Dobson, Margaret Gill, Florence Lanyon, Mabel Lonsdale, Annie Porter, Sarah Schofield, Rose Tindall, Florence Le Page.
List of Honours Obtained at Owens College by Old Pupils of this School
Details given of the successes achieved by the following: Annie Eastwood, Emily Pearce, Edith Lang, Annie Kay, Constance Moore, Mary Robinson, M Ledward, Ethel Rome.
Edward Donner
Treasurer?s Report for the Year Ending 31 August 1885
Details given of the financial state of the school.
Edward Donner, Edwin Marshall and R D Darbishire
Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1884 to 31 August 1885
Details of income and expenditure.
Regulations for Scholarships and Exhibitions
Details of regulations for the award of financial assistance with school fees.
Regulations for the Mary Bradford Scholarship
Details of regulations for the award of the Mary Bradford Scholarship
Alphabetical Class Lists, July 1885
Names of girls in the following classes:
Upper School: Seniors, VI Upper, VI Lower, V Upper, V Middle, V Lower, Intermediate, IV Upper, IV Middle, IV Lower A, IV Lower B, III Upper, III Middle, III Lower A, III Lower B, Upper Probationary, Middle Probationary, Lower Probationary.
Lower School: II Upper, II Lower, Intermediate, I Upper, I Lower. Preparatory School: Class III, Class II, Class I.
Pendleton School: Class III, Class II, Class I.