✨ Education Inspector's Report
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BOARD OF EDUCATION.
(APRIL 20—MAY 27, 1869.)
INSPECTOR’S REPORT FOR THE MONTH.
To the Chairman of the Board.
SIR,
I have the honour to submit a Summary Report on the schools examined during the month.
Governor’s Bay North School ... May 3 ... Present 27 ... The progress in the ordinary branches is very satisfactory. A few boys are proceeding with a higher course. The construing and parsing of different passages of the First Book of the Aeneid by two elder boys were highly creditable; as also the Latin Exercises and Grammar by two younger ones, respectively. A Superior Boarding School is in course of formation.
Governor’s Bay ... May 4 ... Present 9 ... Very satisfactory. The Bible knowledge is very satisfactory; the Elementary subjects creditable; the children, although very young, answered remarkably well also, in Geography, History, and Grammar.
Lincoln ... May 5 ... Present 24 ... Improving.
Prebbleton ... May 6 ... Present 28 ... New Teacher.
Halswell School ... May 6 ... Present 36 ... The discipline and order are good in some respects. Certain set rules are observed as to standing at class and taking places. The attainments of a few more intelligent and advanced scholars show that considerable pains and interest have been taken in their instruction. Below this small class the progress is not, on the whole, satisfactory. The Tables and Arithmetic are fair, but the Reading and Spelling are lame and imperfect; the copybooks are inferior to those of the schools included in this month’s report. Fewer and more equal classes, and a more constant supervision of the lower ones would tend to produce more satisfactory results.
Harewood Road ... May 10 ... Present 16 ... New Teacher.
North Road ... May 18 ... Present 11 ... Improving.
St. Albans School ... May 12 ... Present 67 ... There has been considerable improvement since last examination, but the school still suffers some disadvantages. The Sunday services are conducted elsewhere, but the pulpit and pews, or benches, still occupy space otherwise available for desks and for drafting the classes. A number of children capable of learning to write in copybooks had not commenced to do so. The Bible knowledge and other subjects in the second class were very deficient.
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