1900 - 1909
1900 -July-Extract from H.M.I.’s Report: ‘Recommendations previously made regarding cloakrooms and ventilation not attended to and the floor is in holes and needs repairing, it should also be swept daily and frequently scrubbed. The Managers are urged to see that the recommendations are enforced or it will not be possible for further grants to be made.’
1901 - Few entries appear for this year other than ‘eighty pupils on school register’ and then in August ‘examined the whole school and found them rather dull after the holidays.’
1902 - May-‘Day holiday for school on the occasion of the H.R.H. The Prince of Wales to Faenol.’ Staffing of school shown as ‘R. E. Butler, M. G. Williams and A. M. Davies.’
1903 - March-‘School not cleaned for over a week, Kate Owens, the cleaner, ill, cannot obtain a substitute.’ In April, the number of the register is given as sixty seven. May-‘The school heated by a stove in the centre of the room and which type is condemned by Rule 13 of “Building Rules”.’
1904 - March-‘Low attendance (32.3%) due to children going about the countryside to beg for eggs.’ This would no doubt be the practice of egg-clapping well know to Anglesey folk, and which custom persisted, although to a lesser degree until the early thirties. May-Extract from H.M.I’s Report: ‘A poor school’. September-‘Mr. John Williams, Arwel, Brynsiencyn, takes over as Attendance Office in place of Mr. Coles.’
1905 - March 23-‘School closed in afternoon on account of the funeral of Lord Anglesey in Llandewen cemetery.’ June-‘Only seven children came to school due to stormy weather.’
Reference is often made to the nuisance caused by smokey fires, and this is a matter of comment throughout subsequent years. The nuisance was not removed until the installation of gas heaters n the school in 1969. Almost every entry in the log for 1906 is in regard to the smoke problem.
1907 - February 2-‘School closed in afternoon on account of the funeral of Sir Charles Hughes-Hunter, Plas Coch.’ In April a note refers to the attendance being, 48.7%, ‘which is the best in the last six months.’
1908 - October-‘Master and pupils went to Plas Coch to see the fire engine working.’ November-‘Mr. Evan O. Evans, Llanbedrgoch, takes over headship of the school temporarily during Mr. Butler;s illness.’
1909-In a summary to an inspector’s report there is mention for the first time of bilingualism. It is assumed that instruction was given entirely in English.
