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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Standard III. Freehand drawing of regular forms and curved figures
from the flat.
Standard IV. Freehand drawing from the flat, and from simple rect-
angular and circular models. Drawing to scale. Simple geometrical
figures with rulers and instruments.
Standard V. The same as IV., with the addition of easy common
objects. Plans and elevations of plane figures and rectangular solids in
simple positions. Simple scales.
Standard VI. The same as V., but of greater difficulty and including
sections.
The series of drawing-books issued by authority of the Minister of
Education show the kind of work required by this regulation.
[Note.—The pupils should be taught as early as possible to draw from
actual objects, such as the doors, windows, furniture, and apparatus of the
schoolroom.]
Drawing may be taught as an “additional subject” for any standard
higher than Standard III. Such drawing for any standard may be the
drawing prescribed for a higher standard, or some drawing not prescribed
as a pass-subject.
19. The instruction in elementary science for Standards IV., V., and
VI. shall be based on a programme, which shall be prepared by the head-
teacher, to show the distribution of the subject over a three-years' course
of lessons. The programme must include such elementary knowledge of
physics and such a conception of chemical action as may be imparted by
the proper use of Professor Bickerton's “Materials for Lessons in Ele-
mentary Science,” and must also include instruction in elementary
mechanics, or in such elementary physiology as may be learnt from Mrs.
Buckton's “Health in the House,” or in botany, or some other subject
recognised by the Inspector as equivalent to one of these: provided,
however, that, if agricultural chemistry be efficiently taught, no other
elementary science shall be required for these standards.
20. The object-lessons, and lessons on natural history, manufactures,
and common things, for Standards I., II., and III., are intended as an in-
troduction to the elementary-science lessons for the higher standards.
Classes S1 and S2, or S1, S2, and S3, may be taught and examined
together in these subjects if the programme of lessons is varied from year
to year so that on the whole the work prescribed for two or three classes
shall be done in two or three years as the case may be ; or S3 may be in-
structed in elementary science with any higher class, and even S1 and S2
may, instead of receiving lessons on objects, &c., be instructed in the ele-
mentary science prescribed for the higher standards, if the instruction in ele-
mentary science is oral, illustrative, and experimental, and is, in the
teacher's judgment, adapted to the capacity of the lower classes and
fitted to promote the development of their faculties.
21. Any order of instruction in singing other than that prescribed in
the standards will be recognised as of equivalent value if the result be
good singing, sufficient theoretical knowledge, and careful training of the
lower classes as well as the higher.
22. All the girls in any public school in which there is a mistress or
assistant mistress shall learn needlework, and, if the Inspector is satisfied
that the instruction in this subject is thoroughly systematic and efficient,
he may judge all other work done by the girls more leniently than that
done by the boys in such a degree as would be implied in reducing by 10 per
cent. the minimum marks required for any examination pass. To secure
full approval, the needlework of the several classes must be according to
the following programme:—
S1. Threading needles and hemming. (Illustration of work: Strips of
calico or a plain pocket-handkerchief.)
S2. The foregoing, and felling, and fixing a hem. (Illustration : A
child's pinafore.)
S3. The foregoing and stitching, sewing on strings, and fixing all work
up to this stage. (A pillow-case, or woman's plain shift, without bands or
gathers.)
S4. The foregoing and button-holing, sewing on buttons, stroking,
setting in gathers, plain darning and fixing. (A plain day- or night-
shirt.)
S5. The foregoing, and whipping, a tuck run, sewing on frill, and
gathering. (A night-dress with frills.)
S6. Cutting out any plain garment and fixing it for a junior class ;
darning stockings (fine and coarse) in worsted or cotton; grafting; darn-
ing fine linen or calico; patching the same; darning and patching fine
diaper.
If knitting is learnt it shall be in the following order : A strip of plain
knitting; knitted muffatees, ribbed; a plain-knitted child's sock; a long-
ribbed stocking.