✨ Education Report and Examination Results
Greek.
Only Caygill and Merton have commenced. Caygill’s work is almost beyond him, but he is rapidly overtaking it; he is construing Xenophon and the New Testament, but is, at present, imperfect in the declensions and verbs. His number of marks, 59, is very creditable. Merton’s work is much more elementary; he obtains 26 marks.
The subjects requiring greater attention and more accuracy are:—
The Reading, the Geography of the Australian Colonies, including, of course, New Zealand; the History of Modern Europe, French Grammar, more especially the verbs; Mathematics, and perhaps also the Latin and Greek Accidence.
More practice and the more general study of Recitation, would tend to correct the defects in Reading.
The previous want of a good “Manual” affords an excuse for ignorance of the Geography of New Zealand; Bonwick’s books on the Geography of Australasia published in Melbourne are the most compendious, cheap, and practical; an improved edition of Mr. Bowden’s Geography of New Zealand has recently been published at Wellington, but the price, 3s. 6d., precludes its general use, except as a teacher’s text book.
The defects of the older scholars in the Latin and Greek Accidence are not very serious, yet it may not be unreasonable to expect boys in the upper part of the College Grammar School, two years in the school, to be more perfect in the declension and comparison of adjectives and in the verbs nolo, eo, and eimi.
The following list in the order of merit results from the examination:—
1st. Caygill.
2nd. Merton Senior.
3rd. Wilkinson Junior.
4th. Wilkinson Senior.
5th. Bean.
6th. Merton Junior.
7th. Dawson
) Equal.
8th. Parson
9th. Triggs.
10th. Jennings.
The great dissimilarity in the courses gone over seems to indicate the desirability of some arrangement for securing greater uniformity.
A certificate from the master of the scholar’s conduct, in addition to the present one of attendance, would probably correct any tendency to idleness. A copy of a College Boy’s Quarterly Report would meet the requirement.
A Table of Marks is annexed.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
J. P. RESTELL,
Inspector of Schools.
December 29, 1869.
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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 & Science29 December 1869
Scholarships, Examination, Education, Boys, Academic Performance
10 names identified
- Caygill, Scholar examination results
- Senior Merton, Scholar examination results
- Junior Wilkinson, Scholar examination results
- Senior Wilkinson, Scholar examination results
- Bean, Scholar examination results
- Junior Merton, Scholar examination results
- Dawson, Scholar examination results
- Parson, Scholar examination results
- Triggs, Scholar examination results
- Jennings, Scholar examination results
- J. P. Restell, Inspector of Schools