✨ Education Report
The number of schools examined during the quarter has been 40, including 2056 children.
Casual and passing visits have been paid according to opportunity to several schools, with generally satisfactory results both as to the accuracy of the registers and the order of the schools.
It is highly desirable that the "Summary Register" should be brought into more general use.
Several committees complain of the difficulty of obtaining suitable candidates for the mastership of their schools, some of which have either been closed, or unsatisfactorily conducted for several months on this account. The class of candidates for examination for masterships chiefly comprises gentlemen of little previous experience in school-keeping; but among them have been found some whose educational experience has been considerable, and a few having a remarkable aptitude for teaching. There is however a want of skilled and experienced teachers.
The want of suitable assistants is also beginning to be felt in several schools.
It is highly desirable that regulations should be framed as to the duties and course of instruction, at least for the first year of the pupil-teachers already employed.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
J. P. RESTELL,
Inspector of Schools,
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1871, No 58
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- J. P. Restell, Inspector of Schools