Archifdy Ceredigion Archives
SCHOOL RECORDS

NB. Admissions registers and log books are closed for 100 years. Other school records are closed to the public for 30 years after the date at which they were made.

Acc. Various

Ref: CWP

CWMPADARN (Penyfron) Board, Council School

The 1905 report states that the school, an infant school, was erected in 1877 and that a mixed school was erected in 1897. There was accommodation for 200. In 1904 there were 80 infants on the books and 133 in the mixed school. The average attendance was 55 (infants) and 87 (mixed).

School Records

Log books

Infants
2 January 1878-2 December 1893 - CWP/I/1
2 January 1894-29 January 1915 - CWP/I/2
5 January 1915-1 March 1926 - CWP/I/3

Upper dept
10 January 1870-31 October 1902 - CWP/1
31 October 1902-24 December 1915 - CWP/2
10 January 1916-1 March 1926, then Mixed (united with Upper Dept): 1 March 1926-26 February 1947 - CWP/3
1947-2005 - CWP/4

Admissions register
1947-2005 - CWP/R/1

Summary registers
1947-1952 - CWP/SR/1
1952-1957 - CWP/SR/2
1957-1961 - CWP/SR/3
1967-1972 - CWP/SR/4
197?-1978 - CWP/SR/5
1978- 1983 - CWP/SR/6
1983-1988 - CWP/SR/7

Notices of examination, inspectors' Annual Reports, grant statements, examination schedules, school accounts, pupil teachers' indentures, object lessons, rules:
Upper school 1867-1904 - CWP/X/1
Infant school, 1878-1898 - CWP/X/2

School Fees book
1875-1891 - CWP/X/3

Education Committee Records

see Aberystwyth group, minutes of managers' meetings,
April 1910-March 1915 179a
April 1915-January 1919 179b

County Council Records

School brochure, 1983 DYC/ED/4

Questionnaires dated 1920 giving details of the school and its catchment area, with the headmaster’s opinions on local education, employment prospects and other local issues. Separate questionnaires for the Infants and Upper Depts. CDC/ED/30, no. 99

Photographs of school building (the old school and the new): CDC/ED/VA/5

Miscellaneous items incl. centenary booklet, new school opening programme,
'A History of Cwmpadarn School' by A. L. Trott, The Cwmpadarn Chronicle (school newspaper) pts 1-3 (1949) - CDC/ED/22/1-7

School plans,
1906 CDC/A/1/56
nd CDC/A/1/57

Deeds, etc,
277/C34
1058/C173

Miscellaneous

Copy photo (digital print) of Llanbadarn (Cwmpadarn) school pupils 1914. In ADX/803