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SCHOOLS EXAMINED.
Avonside
May 29 ... Present 64 ... Improving.
St. Andrew’s
May 30 ... Present 54 ... Very satisfactory.
St. Albans
May 31 ... Present 66 ... Middling. Visiting this school casually on Friday, May 26, the register had been only partly made up—part of the attendance entered—on the previous Monday morning, and not since. It appears by his own admission to be the habit of the master to enter the attendance at intervals from memory, a thing impossible to be done correctly in any school, especially in a large one. The discipline and amount of control are imperfect. The attainments are very meagre; the children cannot do the work set down to them. Uncorrected errors of diction have become so habitual as to characterise the school; not one child here and there but nearly the whole class had defects far less prevalent in the rest of the schools. The amount of inaccuracy is surprising.
Lower Heathcote
June 1 ... Present 71 ... The improved efficiency of the school is stated above.
Christchurch Roman Catholic Boys’ School. Visited but not examined. June 2 Present 55. In good order.
Christchurch Roman Catholic Girls’ and Infants’. Same day. Present 90. In good order.
Governor’s Bay North
June 5 ... Present 9 ... The attendance is small, but the work is very satisfactory. The organization and discipline are very good; the improvement since last examination is very marked; the attainments above the average of children of the same age.
N.B.—The chimney is in dangerous disrepair.
Governor’s Bay
June 6 ... Present 7 ... Satisfactory.
Tai Tapu
June 7 ... Present 29 ... Satisfactory.
Greenpark
June 8...Very wet...Present 7 (by the register).
June 9 ... Still wet ... Present 11.
The desks which had been arranged to suit congregational purposes were put into proper order to-day.
Lincoln
Same day ... Present 6... Registers satisfactory.
Prebbleton
June 9...Wet weather... Present 13... Improved.
Broadfield
June 12 ... Wet morning ... Present 89 ... Considerably improved.
Springston
June 13 ... Present 27 ... Satisfactory in most respects, but the classification may be improved.
Leeston
June 14 ... Present 37 ... Satisfactory.
Southbridge
June 15 ... Present 36 ... Very satisfactory, as stated above.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1871, No 51
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