✨ Inspector's Monthly Report
XXV.
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
(JULY 1—28, 1870.)
INSPECTOR’S MONTHLY REPORT.
To The Chairman of the Board.
Sir,
I have the honour to submit this Report on the Schools Examined during the month:
Halswell School ... July 5 ... Present 33 ... The room is a fine and lofty one, but the ventilators in the gable ends do not close, the school is, consequently, very cold all the winter. To increase the firing is only to cause a greater draft of cold air. There is not sufficient provision for cleansing the room and keeping it clean; a gravelled path, mats, and scrapers outside, and regularly cleansing the inside are requisite. The order is, in other respects, for the most part satisfactory. The copybooks are clean and neat, but sufficient attention is not paid to the formation of a good handwriting. There is no good penmanship. The best writing is that of James Dunbar, a new boy. The best reading was that of Mary Gordon, an old scholar; with her exception, the reading of the whole school, in easy narratives and primary lessons, was habitually lame and halting. More attention to the acquirement of fluency is requisite. The other subjects were mostly satisfactory; great progress has been made by several younger and more regular attendants; but they nearly all have the defects indicated above, an unusual, but, in their case, habitual halting in their reading; and an untrained handwriting. The knowledge of geography and history is very limited.
Lincoln School ... July 6 ... Present 25 ... Improving.
Templeton ... July 7 ... Present 33 ... The children are very orderly, but less cheerful and frank than in most schools. The arithmetic shows some improvement, and the other subjects are, on the whole, more satisfactory.
Springston ... July 8 ... Present 29 ... Considerable pains have been taken to improve the efficiency of the school. The spelling has always been remarkably good, the other subjects are now more nearly equal to it; the discipline and the articulation are improvable. The general result was very satisfactory; this being the best examination the school has passed.
Papanui—St. Paul’s ... July 12 ... Present 67 ... The attendance below the average, owing to yesterday’s wet weather. The school appears to be recommencing satisfactorily under the new master.
Prebbleton ... July 13 ... Present 30 ... The school being now more entirely in the hands of the residents, greater local interest has been awakened; there is an earnest desire to devise measures for the more general diffusion of the benefits of the school; at present a large proportion of the children of the district are not under instruction. The Chairman of the Local
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1871, No 24A
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Inspector's Monthly Report on Schools
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🎓 Education, Culture & ScienceSchool inspection, Education, Attendance, Performance
- James Dunbar, Best handwriting in Halswell School
- Mary Gordon, Best reading in Halswell School
- The Chairman of the Board