Contains brief notes on the activities of the school from its opening on 4 April 1870 to the late 1890s. Daily entries may include information on admissions and discharges, weather, attendance, examinations, discipline, subjects taught and the observations/recommendations of inspectors. Names of teachers and visitors appear throughout the volume with the names of individual children appearing roughly from the early 1880s. The final pages of the volume jump between dates in the mid-1890s and intermix daily logs with class syllabi.