✨ School Efficiency Report
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BOARD OF EDUCATION, 1867,
QUARTER ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH.
SCHEDULE AS TO EFFICIENCY OF SCHOOLS EXAMINED.
| List of Schools Examined. | Date of Examination. | Numbers Present. | Site, Buildings, and Playgrounds. | Books and Apparatus. | Organization and Discipline. | Bible Knowledge. | Elementary Secular. | Ordinary Secular. | Remarks. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Christchurch— St. Michael's | Aug. 26 & 27 | 110 | A | B | B | B | A | B | Improved; a few more maps wanted; registers deficient. |
| 2 Do Wesleyan | July 30 | 112 | B | A | A | A | A | A | Defective ventilation. |
| 3 Do St. Andrew's | Aug. 5 | 53 | B | A | A | A | A | A | Schoolroom too small for the number. |
| 4 Do St. Luke's | July 29 | 78 | B | A | B | B | A | Bad arrangement of desks; registers untidy and incomplete. | |
| 5 Do R. Catholic | Sept. 3 | 75 | A | A | B | A | A | B | Good, but noisy. |
| 6 Lyttelton Church of England | " 13 | 56 | A | A | A | B | A | B | Improved. |
| 7 Do Wesleyan | " 13 | 56 | A | A | A | B | A | Remarkable accuracy, resulting from constant carefulness. | |
| 8 Governor's Bay | " 14 | 9 | B | A | B | A | A | First class absent. | |
| 9 Kaiapoi Church of England | Aug. 23 | 60 | A | A | B | A | A | A | |
| 10 Do Wesleyan | " 23 | 30 | B | A | B | A | A | Improved. | |
| 11 Do R. Catholic | " 23 | 12 | not examined. | Buildings now satisfactory as to ventilation and warming. | |||||
| 12 Woodend | " 22 | 23 | Measles. New Teacher. | ||||||
| 13 Saltwater Creek | July 18 | 20 | B | C | B | A | B | A | Only one desk, wrong kind, and badly placed. Arithmetic bad. |
| 14 Rangiora Boys' | " 17 | 47 | A | A | B | B | A | A | Register very incomplete; lowest class, including children up to nine years old, unusually backward. |
| 15 Do Girls' | Aug. 21 | 31 | B | B | B | A | B | Register as above. | |
| 16 Fernside | " 21 | 29 | A | A | B | A | B | ||
| 17 Cust | " 20 | 17 | B | A | New School. | ||||
| 18 Oxford | " 20 | 30 | B | A | New Teacher. | ||||
| 19 Do Harewood | " 20 | 24 | A | B | A | First casual visit, clean, orderly, carefully taught. | |||
| 20 Eyreton | " 19 | 11 | A | A | A | A | A | Children very young, but remarkably well informed. | |
| 21 Courtney | July 12 | 18 | A | A | B | C | B | Very deficient in Bible knowledge. | |
| 22 Akaroa | Sept. 17 | 37 | B | A | B | B | C | Not satisfactory. | |
| 23 Pigeon Bay | 19 & 20 | 34 | B | A | A | A | A | A | |
| 24 Duvauchelle's Bay | " 19 | 27 | B | A | B | A | B | Register incomplete. | |
| 25 Okain | " 18 | 33 | A | A | A | A | A | A | |
| 26 Riccarton | Aug. 12 | 30 | A | C | B | A | Not enough desks; want of system; the instruction of the junior classes has been quite "haphazard." | ||
| 27 Prebbleton | July 10 | 18 | A | A | A | B | B | Improving. | |
| 28 Templeton | Sept. 5 | 27 | A | C | C | C | C | Very deficient at present. | |
| 29 Lincoln | " 6 | 29 | A | B | B | B | B | ||
| 30 Upper Heathcote | Aug. 13 | 27 | A | B | B | A | A | B | Much improved. |
| 31 Halswell | Sept. 6 | 22 | B | B | B | A | B | Building under repair. Low average of accuracy. Too much attention to special subjects. | |
| 32 Tai Tapu | " 6 | 31 | B | B | B | A | A | Improving. | |
| 33 Heathcote Valley | Aug. 7 | 26 | B | B | B | B | C | No Bibles; low standard. | |
| 34 Lower Heathcote | " 5 | 15 | A | B | B | B | B | Fittings incomplete. | |
| 35 Avonside | Sept. 2 | 45 | B | B | B | A | B | ||
| 36 Papanui St. Paul's | July 23 | 68 | B | A | A | A | A | A | |
| 37 Do Wesleyan | Aug. 30 | 30 | B | B | B | B | B | Improving slowly. | |
| 38 North Road | " 14 | 19 | B | B | New Teacher. | ||||
| 39 Harewood Road | " 9 | 17 | B | B | A | A | A | ||
| 40 St. Alban's | " 8 | 28 | B | C | B | B | C | ||
| 1464 |
A satisfactory; B less so; C unsatisfactory, or in a state of commencement.
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