This is a printed (typeset) preliminary page of the logbook titled "(Extracts from New Code.)" — not handwritten diary entries. It reproduces regulatory extracts governing school log-books.

Text reads:

(Extracts from New Code.)

"Art. 85. The Board must be satisfied............ that the school has a sufficient staff, and is properly provided with suitable desks and furniture, books, maps, and other apparatus of elementary instruction, and also with
(a) suitable registers;
(b) a portfolio to contain official letters;
(c) a diary or log-book;
(d) the Code and Revised Instructions for each year;
(e) a book for recording minutes of managers' meetings.

"The log-book must be stoutly bound, and contain not less than 300 ruled pages. It must be kept by the principal teacher, who is required to enter in it from time to time such events as the introduction of new books, apparatus, or courses of instruction, any plan of lessons approved by the inspector, the visits of managers, absence, illness, or failure of duty on the part of any of the school staff, or any special circumstances affecting the school, that may, for the sake of future reference or for any other reason, deserve to be recorded.

"No reflections or opinions of a general character are to be entered in the log-book.

"Art. 22. (a) An inspector may visit at any time, with or without notice, any public elementary school or place in which the scholars are receiving instruction under the Code. The registers, portfolio, and log-book must, if required, be produced for his inspection, and any of these documents may be required to be sent either to him or to the Board.

"Art. 24. The summary of any report made by the inspector, and any remarks made upon it by the Board, must, as soon as received, be copied verbatim into the log-book and signed by the corresponde[r].

In a circular to H.M. Inspectors of Schools on the working of the New Code, there is the following on the subject of "Corporal Punishment":—

"When the necessity arises, the punishment should be administered by the head-teacher; and an entry of the fact should, in their Lordship's opinion, be made in the log-book."

Faint mirror-image bleed-through visible: "SCHOOL DIARY", "LOG BOOK", and "THE NORTH OF ... NEWCASTLE-ON-...".