Here are some examples of documents from all across the Highlands. Clicking on the images will allow you to see them in more detail. The images supplied are for educational purposes so please don’t use them for other reasons or share them online – thank you!
Log Books and Admission Registers
Log Books and Admission Registers make up the main series of school records held in the archive collections. Admission Registers list the pupils as they are registered at school every year. This makes them very useful for family history research. Log Books are like diaries of the school. The headteacher writes an entry every day or week about life at the school. It can include lots of different things like numbers of absent pupils, updates on the weather, exam results, parties or holidays and general news. You can see some examples of these records below. You can also read more about school records in our storyboard about Insh School.
Photographs
Sometimes you can also find school photographs in archive collections. Below are photographs from Embo School and St. Kilda school in the early 1900s.
School Memories
Sometimes you can also find accounts and histories of schools that people have written. You can read a recollection of school days at Badbea here. You can also read about school memories from Lochaber here.
Subjects
If you look at historic school records, you will notice some of the subjects are different from ones that are studied today. Below you can see some records from Wick High School Girl’s Literary and Debating Society. This includes subjects to be debated and an account of a debate. You can read a transcript of the written account here.
