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great measure, owing to want of suitable desks and benches; also to bad arrangement. The arithmetic weak and inaccurate for want of explanation, and of more use of the blackboard. The register remarkably neat, complete and creditable.
Woodend . . . . . . Jan. 21 . . . Present, 49 . . . Improved. The arrangement of the desks and benches has been altered so as to suit Sunday classes and uses, rather than the organisation of a day school. The teacher, hemmed in by the children, who sit all round the room, maintains order with greater difficulty than with them in front of him. In writing, the pupils face the close wall or sunny window, with their backs to the teacher.
Some of the registers are missing; the register for the current quarter is incomplete, as to information to be brought forward.
Kaiapoi Roman Catholic School . . . . . . Jan. 21 . . . Present, 16 . . . Tolerable.
Papanui Wesleyan School . . . . . . Jan. 32 . . . Present, 24 . . . Improved.
The details of each examination are entered in the Journal.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
J. P. RESTELL,
Inspector of Schools.
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
(JANUARY 30—FEBRUARY 27, 1868)
MONTHLY REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS.
To the Chairman of the Board.
Sir,—I have the honour to submit a Summary Report on the Schools examined during the month.
The recent re-opening of the schools after the Christmas holidays, the wet weather, the floods, and the harvest have rendered most schools ineligible for examination.
I had occasion, in the last Monthly Report, to notice the incomplete and irregular manner in which the registers are kept in several schools. There is still some ground for complaint on this account; but I am happy to say that the registers in the town schools — more especially those at Christchurch: St. Michael’s, and Wesleyan schools — exemplify the manner in which a register should be kept, both as to accuracy and neatness. The same remark will apply to most of those schools which have acquired a character for steady efficiency. I instance those above mentioned chiefly on account of their central position.
Instances occasionally recur of teachers being met at a distance from their schools while the school either is, or is supposed to be, at work; and, on more than one occasion, I have not discovered the school to be closed until arriving to examine it. The teachers have obtained the consent of some one on the School Committee to a desirable holiday, but without consulting the Chairman of the Local Committee. The last instance of this kind was at the Lower Heathcote school, Ferry Road.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1868, No 20A
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Monthly Summary Report of Inspector of Schools
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🎓 Education, Culture & ScienceSchool Inspection, Education, School Conditions, School Performance
- J. P. Restell, Inspector of Schools
🎓 Monthly Report of Inspector of Schools
🎓 Education, Culture & ScienceSchool Inspection, Education, School Performance, School Registers
- J. P. Restell, Inspector of Schools