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Lyttelton Wesleyan School ... September 8 ... Present 45 ... Satisfactory.
Waimate ... September 9 ... Present 48 ... Much improved.
Timaru ... September 10 ... Present 81 ... Below the average daily attendance. The unfenced state of the premises, which have now remained in that state for four years, indicates a want of local interest in the school. Maps of Australia and New Zealand were wanted. The teachers appear to be very diligent; the attainments are generally satisfactory, and, in some respects, very creditable. The children were unacquainted with the Geography of the Australian Colonies, for want of Maps, as above.
Arowhenua School ... September 10 ... Present 25 ... The children are well-behaved; they appear to be kindly treated by the master, and to be attached to him; but their progress is unsatisfactory: they are backward in every subject, and inaccurate even in the lessons they have gone over.
Christchurch St. Michael’s School ... September 15 ... Present 112 ... Satisfactory.
Christchurch Wesleyan School ... September 16 ... Present 133 ... Satisfactory.
Riccarton ... September 17 ... Present 41 ... Considerably improved.
North Road ... September 20 ... Present 21 ... Considerably improved.
Kaiapoi Church School ... September 22 ... Present 86 ... The school is carefully taught by the master, his wife and daughter; the teaching-power thus being more adequate than ordinarily, the result is more satisfactory. The younger children are better taught and more accurate than in most schools. The Writing is the subject which most needs improvement, but a few boys write remarkably well.
Woodend Wesleyan School ... September 23 ... Present 52 ... A local holiday had reduced the attendance. A fine new school, of 86 x 18, has been well built. The school has been removed from the Chapel, on the same site, into the new building. Great improvement in the organisation results from this very advantageous change. More assistance is wanted; the master has not time to bring on the lower classes without neglecting the higher ones.
Rangiora Girls’ School ... September 23 ... Present 50 ... Satisfactory. Steps are being taken to alter the chimney complained of in a former report.
Kaiapoi Wesleyan School ... September 24 ... Present 58 ... The school has out-grown the schoolroom; it is mainly conducted in the Chapel; the pews interfere with the arrangement of classes; the teachers are at a great disadvantage on this account. The results are, on the whole, as creditable as the circumstances will permit, except that the junior classes, while reading the Books of Kings, had forgotten the plainer truths of Old and New Testament History.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
J. P. RESTELL,
Inspector of Schools.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1870, No 21A
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- J. P. Restell, Inspector of Schools
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