Sources for Sharnbrook Education

John Gibbard School, Jan 2008

John Gibbard Lower School [previously Sharnbrook Church School, then Board, then Council, then County Primary School]

• X25/29/1: "National School Fund": 1836-1847;
• X25/29/2: Letter referring to school site: 1837;
• X25/29/4: Appointment of Henry Corby of Raunds [Northamptonshire] as schoolmaster: 1837;
• CRT130SHA39: List of Sharnbrook School headteachers: 1839-1953;
• X25/29/5: Appointment of James Simmons of Bedfont [Middlesex] as schoolmaster: 1845;
• Fac96/9: Mavor's Spelling Book used at the school: 1855;
• SDSharnbrook1: Log book: 1868-1887;
• Z831/1: reference in deed to sale of land by the Gambier estate to Sharnbrook School Board including the schoolmaster's house and plot of land: 1871;
• SB35/1: School Board minutes: 1871-1882;
• SB35/4a: School Board notice of motion book: 1871-1900;
• SB35/5: School Board ledger: 1871-1872;
• SB35/6: School Board abstract book: 1871-1903;
• SB35/7: School Board financial statements: 1871-1903;
• SB35/8: School Board expense account: 1871-1903;
• SB35/9: School Board account of fees: 1871-1903;
• SB35/10 and 14 to 19: School Board cash books: 1871-1903;
• SB35/11: School Board letter book: 1871-1903;
• SB35/12: School Board register of mortgages: 1871-1903;
• SB35/15a: School Board bye-laws: 1871;
• SB35/13: Abstract of title to School Board  land: 1872;
• CCE/SB35/2: Conveyance of school house and master's house: 1873;
• CCE/SB35/3: Mortgage to pay for site of school: 1873;
• CCE/SB35/6-10: acknowledgements of payments of instalments of loans: 1873-1874;
• CCE/SB35/4: Mortgage: 1874;
• CCE/SB35/5: deeds altering payment of loan: 1878;
• SB35/2: School Board minutes: 1882-1890;
• SB35/20: School Board financial statements: 1883-1899;
• SDSharnbrook2: Log book: 1887-1899;
• Z50/100/102: Photograph of school group with two masters: c.1890s;
• SB35/3: School Board minutes: 1890-1901;
• CCE/SB35/11: Mortgage for improvements to the schoolmaster's house: 1895;
• SDSharnbrook3: Log book: 1899-1922;
• Z50/100/104-105: Photographs of pupils: 1900-1923;
• SB35/4: School Board minutes: 1901-1903;
• SB35/14a: Report of School Board clerk to Bedfordshire County Council: 1903;
• E/TE5/1: Details of teachers: 1904-1908;
• Z50/100/103: Photograph of new schools with pupils and staff outside: c.1905;
• Z50/100/23: Photograph of school and children: c.1905;
• E/TE5/2: Details of teachers: 1908-1912;
• Z50/89/15: Photograph of lower classroom: c.1910;
• E/IN1/1: School Inspector's reports: 1913-1939;
• P112/28/6 page 45: Resignation of Minnie Bayes as assistant teacher on marriage: 1914;
• SDSharnbrook4: School roll of honour: 1914-1918;
• SDSharnbrook4: Postcard of school interior with children and teachers: 1920;
• SDSharnbrook4: Log book: 1922-1938;
• SDSharnbrook4: Postcard of children and school buildings: 1923;
• RDBP1/821: Plans for drainage and alterations: 1925;
• Z50/100/66: Photograph of interior of schoolroom: 1930s;
• CTM17/135: Mortgage of land for school funds: 1933;
• SDSharnbrook5: Log book: 1938-1958;
• E/PM3/1/4J-L: Evacuee School Attendance Registers: 1939-1940;
• SMM28/1: School Managers' minutes: 1939-1974;
• RDBP3/459: Plans for canteen and sanitary accommodation: 1945;
• E/SA4/2/10: Correspondence between the Local Education Authority and the school: 1946-1966;
• RDBP3/1068: Plans for sanitary accommodation: 1948;
• Z55/1/63: Photograph of the school: 1950s;
• Z55/1/91/25: Photograph of the school: 1950s;
• CA8/493: Maintenance file on the school: 1966-1978;
• CA2/144: Building file on school extensions: 1967-1968;
• CA2/577: Building file on school extensions: 1973-1977;
• PY/PH160/12: Exterior slides of the school: c.1980;
• E/MS2/1/1: Returns on potential new arrangements for catering: 1980;
• E/TE3/4: Return of teaching staff: 1981;
• E/TE3/7: Return of teaching staff: 1986;
• E/MS3/2/1: Kitchen and other details: c.1987;
• E/Pu4/4/58: Prospectus: 1995

Sharnbrook Upper School, Jan 2008

Sharnbrook Upper School

• E/SA1/4/2: File on comprehensive reorganisation which created the school: 1972-1976;
• CA2/627: Building file for Phase 2 extensions: 1973-1978;
• CA2/510: Building file for Phase III, the sports hall: 1974-1977;
• X494/64/26: Completion of Phase I of the school: 1975;
• CA8/850: School maintenance file: 1976-1983;
• E/OL1/6/1: Report of school's experience in using a travel firm for foreign exchanges: 1979;
• E/CU3/4/1: Headteacher's dissatisfaction with non-involvement of his school in a Local Education Authority pilot project on language teaching: 1980s;
• E/TE3/2: Return of teaching staff: 1981;
• E/YM4/5/1: Relationship with Sharnbrook Youth Club: 1981-1985;
• E/PM2/1/2: Transport of children from surrounding villages to the school: 1983-1984;
• E/SC3/Gen5: Discussion about the merits of Sharnbrook or Clapham as the site of a new North Bedfordshire Upper School: 1983;
• E/OL1/6/1: Participation in foreign schools exchange: 1984;
• E/OL1/1/1: Headteacher's fact-finding visit to Cyprus: 1985;
• E/CU3/13/5-6: Establishment of pre-vocational courses: 1985;
• CC/HS3/4/1: Infestation of flies: 1985-1989;
• E/ME4/2/1: Notes on multicultural education at school: 1986-1988;
• E/TE3/7: Return of teaching staff: 1986;
• E/MS3/2/1: Kitchen and other details: c.1987;
• E/YM1/2/4: Notes on Duke of Edinburgh's Awards Scheme awards achieved by pupils: 1987;
• E/TE2/2/U/11: Details of Sharnbrook Upper School: 1987;
• E/CE1/1/7: vocational education curriculum model 16-18 and curriculum development map: 1987;
• E/ME6/3/1: Notes on pilot project on multicultural education needs at school: 1987-1988;
• E/ME10/1/2: Multicultural performing and creative arts work at school: 1988;
• E/ME10/1/2: Programmes for staff in-service training day and pupil immersion day in multiculturalism: 1988;
• E/ME6/3/2: School report on multicultural education: 1989;
• E/ME7/1/1: Brief report on multicultural education at school: 1988-1990;
• SDFelmersham2/6: Provision of a nursery at Sharnbrook Upper School for teaching staff: 1994-1998;
• E/Pu4/4/204: Prospectus: 1995