✨ Inspector's Monthly Report on Schools
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BOARD OF EDUCATION.
(NOVEMBER 7—DECEMBER 4, 1871.)
INSPECTOR’S MONTHLY REPORT.
To the Chairman of the Board.
Sir,
I have the honour to submit a Summary Report on the schools examined or inspected during the month.
Broadfield ... Nov. 7 ... Present 42 ... Satisfactory.
Harewood Road ... Nov. 10 ... Present 16 ... (Very wet day); average attendance 28. Those present progressing satisfactorily.
A new school is in course of erection; the committee requesting the value of the apparatus to be included in the local contribution, the following inventory was taken:—
- 4 good desks, each 12ft. long.
- 4 good forms do.
- 1 inferior desk of 12ft. long.
- 1 inferior form do.
- 2 maps, hemispheres.
- 1 map, England.
Valuation of above:—
- 4 good desks, present value ... £4 0 0
- 4 forms do. ... 2 0 0
- 1 inferior desk ... 0 15 0
- 1 inferior form ... 0 7 6
- 3 maps ... 0 15 0
Total ... £7 17 6
St. John’s School ... Nov. 14 ... Present 83 boys and 44 girls.
Both rooms in good working order—the boys’ room very crowded, with a class of 14 in the porch. The capacity of the rooms was correctly calculated by Charles Mould, a boy selected from the first class, at about 60 for the boys’ room and 40 for the girls’; but the average attendance is not a sufficiently liberal basis of calculation as to the space required. The above schools were also inspected on the 21st inst., by the Chairman of the Board, a member of the school committee, and myself.
St. Michael’s School ... Nov. 14 ... Present 62 ... In good working order.
Weeden ... Nov. 15 ... Present 35 ...
The school opened on the 9th ult., with 20 scholars; there are now 43 on the roll, with a daily average of 33. The schoolroom, 30 x 18, is of good design but not well built; the doors and flooring have already shrunk; the room is consequently draughty; the walls are lined with white pine; Baltic is preferable. The rain is said to come in a little at the roof. The desks are of suitable dimensions except as to the length, only 7½ instead of 9 feet long each desk, a loss of 13½ feet of desk accommodation, and a waste of that space in alleys unnecessarily wide. The desks are hardly strong enough, and have shrunk from the greenness of the wood.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1871, No 60
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