Education

Maintaining School Standards, page 3

At Llanbister Cantal School, as well as the basic subjects of reading, arithmetic, grammar and spelling, various collective lessons were given to the whole school. Topics included iron smelting, wool, salt, glove making and weather. Some subjects gave cause for concern:

"Sept 4th Examination given today. Arithmetic good but the boys in St III all failed in Dictation. St I Reading was also poor. Good progress was made in Drawing. The examination is to take place on 16th inst at 10am."

The annual inspection took place in October, and the Inspector's report copied into the log book on December 15th:

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One new admission was a problem:

Powys County Archives

"July 20th This morning Charles F Jones was admitted - a boy who had never been to school, although in the district and 8 years of age on 13th May last."

Charles caught up with his school work and left the school in March 1897 after passing his Standard V examination.

The following table is a compilation of selected results: