Hankinson's House
BX54-35
Winter Term 1941. 13 names on the list
Young Communist Manifesto for Secondary Schools
BX54-58
Pamphlet laying out agenda of the Young Communists - very radical! Donated by Pauline Crowder whose letter is included
Lorifer Selection Policy
BX54-50
Circular written by Bruce Macfarlane. Essentially for Oxbridge candidates. Circular 'Lorifer Library' Franklin House application for Lorifer form
Policy statements on hair length and alcohol
BX54-16
From HM: Boys' Hair Length (26.6.95) Alcohol Policy (October 1998) [From JDL's filing cabinet (May 2013).
Check List of Induction of New House Tutors
BX54-55
Produced for new tutors by deputy head, Eleanore Byde [From JDL's filing cabinet (May 2013).
House Lists for Salisbury House
BX54-21
Cyclostyled lists with annotations indicating who has paid their Pavilion Subscriptions Summer and Christmas terms 1966
Wimborne House Rules
BX54-18
January 1951 From Brian Street
Uniform Aide Memoire
BX54-28
Laminated card issued to staff to remind them of Winter Dress code they were supposed to enforce.
Public School on Fire
BX54-19
Reporting fire of Jan 21/2, 1930
Newspaper photo of Canford pupils following the hounds
Newspaper unknown and date uncertain.
See EL02447
Invitation from pupils in Monteacute
BX54-57
Andy, Bob, Ken and Desmond request Campbell's company in Monteacute 1 Lodge.
V difficult to date - there are Kenneth's in Monteacute from 1930 - 1957 (and later) and Capbells in the school at the same time. Difficult to track Desmonds!
Pupil Code of Conduct
BX54-13
Essentially what was school rules
The Environment: A View from Canford
BX54-17
Leaflet about wastage of electricity and good at Canford and some pointers to what Canford is doing about it (recycling, considering hydro power, etc
Cardinals Club Membership Card
BX54-53
Receipt for life membership and membership card for Charles Karslake (Cardinals Club was old Beaufortians' club. See also The Mitre - magazine)
Information for Parents of New Day Pupils
BX54-20
Headmaster's Notice re play at Pavilion Theatre
BX54-26
Martin Marriott's notice aboutn Mountjoy , etc. being out of bounds during performance of school play. 26th May, 1978
Design of carved stone tablet for new Franklin House
BX54-51
Letter from mason Richard Grasby to Peter Dawkins about design and position of name plate
Keeping Children Safe in Education
BX54-41
Department of Education dcoument for all school and college staff. March 2015
Emotional Health and Well-being
BX54-43
Booklet produced for staff Inset by Dragonfly Training
Smoking Book
BX54-46
Records names and amounts of fines of pupils caught smoking.
Also: Receipts from Cancer Research UK , where fines were donated.
Pupil Code of Conduct
BX54-48
Essentially what was school rules.
Included Uniform Aide Memoire
Uniform Aide Memoire
BX54-52
Laminated card produced by Nick Hunter (Dep Head Pastoral) to remind staff how pupils should be dressed
+ updated version
Orienteering Map of Grounds
BX54-44
includes correspondence between Jeremy Orme and John Lever + cost
Staff duty teams
BX54-56
Paper from Richard Knott outlining new system for staff duties.
New system replaced one staff on duty for whole day with team covering whole week.
List of House Tutors
BX54-27
Small laminated card issued to all teaching staff.
Shows increasing number of House tutors in school (indication of the increasing responsibility of tutors for academic progress, along with the traditional pastoral role)
Dorset Scholars
BX54-29
Letters from organiser of the Eton Fleming Boys requesting that it be forwarded to anyone who won a Dorset Scholarship to Canford between 1947 and 1951 + photocopies of letters to and from Hardie about two.
Duty rota and notes
BX54-22
Found under the grubber floor during the conversion to a coffee shop in 2018.
Stamped envelope from Dorchester (home?) addressed to Master J Fiander (SH60) and a separate, unrelated sheet of paper, presumably owned by the same pupil as his name appears on it.
Handwritten rota for Front, Middle, Back and Cupboard desk (? something in SH)
Names are:
Front: Mon, Adams; Tue, Marrot; Wed, Davis; Thu, Blackburn; Fri, Durham; Sat, Mackie
Middle: Mon, Craze; Tue, No...; Wed, Fiander; Thu, Newbury; Fri, M(ontagu)-Williams; Sat, Taylor J
Note on the back about feats and missing prep.
Life as a...
BX54-24
Booklets produced to show Life as a Boarder and Life as a Day Pupil
Drinking expulsion
BX54-30
Daily Mail article + online BBC article about drinking incident on golf course
Details had been supplied to the paper by a pupil
Pupils use of swimming pool
BX54-34
Correspondence between John Lever and the manager of the Sports Centre re pupil use deciding whether pupils or outside members have priority in the evening and on Sundays.
Leisure Committee
BX54-23
Report from (and several letters connected to) the Leisure Committee, chaired by Mike Frewer.
Includes copy of questionnaire and a copy of HM's letter to the Master of Marlborough (as Wallace had heard that Marlborough had solved the problem of bored pupils at weekends).
The committees recommendations include changing the way weekend exeats work.and changes to the daily timetable.
Children Act
BX54-54
Various documents showing Canford's response to the 1989 Children Act.
includes notes on presentation to staff, boarding policy, school discipline, notes on external meeting for boarding school staff, etc
Mullit (sic) Freedom group
BX54-38
Unsigned notice distributed to pupils complaining about the suspension of a pupil for refusing to remove his ponytail.
Also includes general complaints about the way the school was being run.
Boarders' survey
BX54-39
Appendix 2 giving a summary of boarders' views.
Part of an inspection carried out by two external inspectors.
Three sides of A4 gave pupils' views (good and bad).
This survey was a major factor in the changes brought in to the San/Health Centre
Invitation to Speech Day drinks
BX54-60
Invitation from John Ainsworth (Hsm) to SH parents for drinks after the speeches at 4, The Park.
This one has 'Matthew' at the top.
Head boy's speech
BX54-61
Speech given by Duncan Munro (W68) at the OC dinner in Autumn 1968
Letter from HM to future Head Boy
BX54-62
Letter written by Ian Wallace to Richard Baxter telling him that he i to be the new Head Boy in 1961. This was Wallace's first appointment.