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Waltham ... Inspected October 30 ... Present 49 ... Average last quarter 52. The room is very crowded, and the atmosphere excessively close. Additional accommodation should, if possible, be rented at once. The registers are incomplete.
Upper Heathcote ... Examined October 31 ... Present 32 ... Average last quarter 36, last week 41; on roll 60; Daily Register correct; summary not entered up to date; attainments below the average of suburban schools, partly owing to the inconvenient building and insufficient accommodation.
St. Andrew’s School ... November 1 ... Present 39 ... Averages (?) Registers incomplete (see Special Report). The school used always to be a most satisfactory one under the present mistress, who states that she has been unwell for some time past; and this may, in some measure, account for the present less satisfactory results. The attendance and the attainments are not up to the former standard, although with the help of a pupil teacher they ought to be better than formerly.
It is highly desirable that in all schools the roll should be called, not merely entered without calling, at 10.30 every morning, and at 2 or 3, whichever is the middle hour of the afternoon; also, that School Committees should appoint, from their number, visitors, who should compare the numbers present with the register, and enter remarks thereon, and on the order and efficiency, in the Visitor’s Book; also, that the Chairman of School Committees should test the accuracy of the returns by an inspection of the registers, before certifying as to their correctness.
Important details as to necessary repairs and other requisites are entered on the "Form of Report" annexed.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
J. P. RESTELL,
Inspector of Schools.
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
(November 4-30, 1872.)
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.
Leithfield ... November 5 ... Present 47 ... The attainments are mostly satisfactory; the order, good; registration correct in detail, but incomplete as to totals. The Time Table has fallen into disuse; this may account for inaccuracy in some subjects. The Visitor’s Book not in use.
North Kowai ... November 6 ... Present 24 ... Satisfactory.
Saltwater Creek ... November 7 ... Present 24 ... Below the average. Considerably improved.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1873, No 9
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Inspector's Monthly Report on Schools
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🎓 Education, Culture & ScienceEducation, Schools, Inspection, Canterbury, November 1872
- J. P. Restell, Inspector of Schools
- J. P. Restell, Inspector of Schools
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🎓 Education, Culture & ScienceEducation, Schools, Inspection, Canterbury, November 1872