✨ Education Examination Results
Triggs and Jennings have acquired a fair knowledge of Latin, but have not well kept up their knowledge of other subjects. Classed too low at first, since they knew no Latin, they have not exerted themselves sufficiently to gain promotion to a class of their own standing in English and Arithmetic. They come out ninth and tenth in the list, below the boys remaining at the ordinary schools.
The progress of the three boys attending the High School is not, on the whole, satisfactory.
The two Wilkinsons had not, until about ten days before the examination, resumed their Euclid and Algebra, in which they had acquired considerable proficiency at Pigeon Bay.
Their French had been recently resumed. They have been conning Latin Delectus, but state that they have had no instruction in parsing; such parsing as they have done, is, in that case, creditable, but decidedly inferior in accuracy and method to that of the College boys. They were well grounded in ordinary subjects at the Pigeon Bay School. The younger Wilkinson’s English and general knowledge are very satisfactory; but the elder one appears to have lost interest, and to be deficient in Bible knowledge and Geography, as well as in the subjects beforementioned.
Dawson entered the High School in October, 1868; he has learned a little Latin Grammar imperfectly, a little French, no Euclid, no Algebra; it was supposed that he would at once have entered upon a superior course upon his promotion to the High School; he has fallen off in Bible Knowledge, in writing and in neatness; his Arithmetic is fair; Spelling, moderate; he has done better than any of the others in History and Geography; he is the only one who appears to have studied the History of Modern Europe; he also excels the rest in his knowledge of both general Geography and that of the Australian Colonies.
The three boys remaining at the “Ordinary Schools,” Bean, Merton junior, and Parson, have so far made creditable progress; they are now fit for promotion to a “Superior School.” The position of Parson, seventh on the list, is quite satisfactory, after making allowance for the interruption of a long illness.
THE SUBJECTS OF EXAMINATION.
I.—Bible Knowledge.
Merton junior, at present at the Rangiora School, has, so far, excelled the rest in this subject, having obtained 78 out of 100 marks; the next is Bean, 52 marks; and Wilkinson Junior, 51 marks; the other boys are a little below the average, Dawson and Jennings very much so. Dawson’s falling off in this subject is the more remarkable, because he used to excel in it.
The boys from the “Ordinary Schools” have mostly excelled those from the “Superior” ones in Bible Knowledge and in Reading.
II.—Reading.
The Reading, the French Revolution, from ‘Gleig’s School History,’ a book equally new to all the boys, was mostly hurried and indistinct from want of practice, no time at all being given to it at the College, and not much at the High School.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1870, No 3
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Special Report on Boys Holding Government Scholarships
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🎓 Education, Culture & ScienceScholarships, Examination, Education, Boys, Academic Performance
13 names identified
- Triggs, Academic performance review
- Jennings, Academic performance review
- Wilkinson, Academic performance review
- Wilkinson, Academic performance review
- Dawson, Academic performance review
- Bean, Academic performance review
- junior Merton, Academic performance review
- Parson, Academic performance review
- junior Merton, Excelled in Bible Knowledge
- Bean, Bible Knowledge performance
- Junior Wilkinson, Bible Knowledge performance
- Dawson, Bible Knowledge performance
- Jennings, Bible Knowledge performance