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Halswell School ... Sept. 6 ... Present, 22 ... Moderate.
Attainments and efficiency below the average, the course of instruction not equable, owing to a tendency to over-cultivate particular branches of study.
Lyttelton Church School ... Sept. 13 ... Present, 56 ... Satisfactory.
Lyttelton Wesleyan School, Sept. 13 ... Present, 56 ... Satisfactory.
Governor’s Bay (Gebbie’s Flat) ... Sept. 14 ... Present, 9 ... Satisfactory.
Akaroa School ... Sept. 17 ... Present, 37 ... Unsatisfactory.
The school had suffered interruption from a very severe winter, and since that from the bad state of the roads, but not sufficiently to account for the unsatisfactory result of the examination. The Bible Knowledge and the Arithmetic are but moderate, and the Reading and Spelling throughout the school are inaccurate, few children having obtained good marks. In the first or highest class of nine children, of the average age of nearly 12 years, only one boy made less than 19 mistakes in the Spelling exercise of twenty-four words of ordinary difficulty.
Okain’s Bay School ... Sept. 18 ... Highly commendable.
The school appears to have been taught with a constancy of unflagging energy and attention. The result is the fair measure of accuracy of all the classes in the ordinary subjects, and a good understanding of Grammar, Parsing, and of the structure and analysis of sentences. The average of accuracy in Arithmetic was also above that of the other Ordinary Schools. The Spelling of the junior half of the first class only was below the average.
Duvauchelle’s Bay School ... Sept. 19 ... Present, 27 ... Moderate.
The school has been interrupted by weather, landslips, and bad roads. The registers were unsatisfactory as to certain columns, to which I had drawn the Master’s attention at my former visit. The attainments were satisfactory, except the Arithmetic and Spelling, which were below the average; but not so bad as at another school complained of as unsatisfactory.
Pigeon Bay School, Examined Sept. 19, 20 ... Present, 34 ... Very satisfactory.
An excellent Day and Boarding School. It is important to observe how much benefit accrues to the Day School from the Boarding School. This result is owing, first, to the good attendance secured by the Boarding School; and hence to the good discipline and higher standard of the boarders stimulating the progress of the day-scholars. (A somewhat similar result is exemplified by the Papanui and Rangiora Schools.) The higher standard of attainment and the average accuracy being fairly proportionable to the advanced age and regular attendance of the pupils, the result of the Pigeon Bay School examination is satisfactory.
I have also visited the Kaiapoi Roman Catholic School in passing. The want of a stove complained of after my former visit has been rectified. The school-buildings, satisfactory.
I have also examined one candidate for an appointment, as per Report of the 24th inst.
The details of the School Examinations are entered in the Journal.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
J. P. RESTELL,
Inspector of Schools.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1868, No 20A
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- J. P. Restell, Inspector of Schools