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BOARD OF EDUCATION.
(October 23—November 24, 1870.)
INSPECTOR’S MONTHLY REPORT.
To the Chairman of the Board.
Sir,
I have the honour to submit a Summary Report on the Schools Examined during the month.
Avonside School ... October 31 ... Present 61 ... The school is making satisfactory progress under the new master and mistress.
Papanui Wesleyan School ... November 1 ... Present 25, with 33 on the register of attendance. The numbers are insufficient for the employment of two adult teachers; the standard of attainment being very low, all the work could be done by one good schoolmistress.
Harewood Road School ... November 2 ... Present 22 ... New teacher; the state of the school is creditable to both the present and the former master; but the room, a place of worship, is ill adapted for a school, and the arrangements are at times irksome to the master.
Woodend School ... November 4 ... Present 58 ... Very creditable to the present teachers and the former master.
North Road School ... November 14 ... Present 20 ... Satisfactory.
Flaxton ... November 14 ... Present 50 ... Highly creditable; from the lower classes upwards the children have been carefully and successfully taught; their accuracy is highly commendable.
Rangiora Girls’ School ... November 15 ... Present 57 ... There is no clock in the school. The attainments, writing in copybooks excepted, are very satisfactory.
Cust ... November 17 ... Present 36 ... Satisfactory.
Oxford ... November 18 ... The very wet and cold weather prevented many children from attending; for this reason the number was not taken. There are 58 names of actual attendants on this quarter’s roll; the highest attendance has been 46, and the average daily attendance 35.7; the average attendance last quarter was 40, while the neighbouring school was at work; that the average should have fallen off instead of increasing, under the circumstances, and during this, the best quarter of the year, is an unfavourable criterion. The school is too far from the late Harewood School to suit the majority of residents in that neighbourhood. The building, warmth, light, and school furniture are unsuitable and inconvenient. The want of water is another drawback. The school has always been one of inferior efficiency, partly from the above causes, and more recently from the failing health of the master and the occasional reliance on successive assistants. A school for 70 or 80 children in a position more central to Harewood and Oxford is very desirable.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1871, No 24A
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🎓 Education, Culture & ScienceEducation, School inspection, Attendance, Discipline, Avonside School, Papanui Wesleyan School, Harewood Road School, Woodend School, North Road School, Flaxton, Rangiora Girls’ School, Cust, Oxford