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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 75

The report shall be divided into sections, and the section relating to
any topic in the foregoing list shall bear the number assigned to that topic
in the list. The omission of any number shall be sufficient to indicate
that the Inspector does not deem it necessary to report on the topic corre-
sponding to that number. Section I. shall in no case be omitted from the
report: it shall show what “standard classes” within the meaning of
Regulation 4 there are in the school, whether the standard classes are
grouped in classes for instruction, and, if so, how they are grouped, and by
what teacher each class is taught, describing each teacher by his position
in the school as “sole teacher,” “headmaster,” “first assistant,” “third-
year pupil-teacher,” or as the case may be. Any section except section I.
may, if the Inspector so choose, consist of the appropriate number and of
a single word, such as, “satisfactory.”

3. The examination report shall show the number of pupils presented
   in each standard class, the number of “passes” in each standard, of
   failures in each class, of “exceptions” in each class, and of pupils absent
   from each class, the “percentage of passes,” the “percentage on class-
   subjects,” the “additional marks,” and the character of the work done
   in classes P and S7. The terms used in this regulation shall be used
   in the examination report in the sense in which they are used in these
   regulations.

4. For the purposes of inspection and examination, but not necessarily
   for purposes of instruction, the pupils of every public school shall be
   divided into standard classes, as follows : The preparatory class shall in-
   clude all pupils below Class I., and may be called Class P. Class I. shall
   include all the children preparing for or presented for Standard I., and
   may be called S1 ; Class II. shall include all the children preparing for or
   presented for Standard II., and may be called S2 ; and so on to Class VI.
   Class VII. shall include all pupils that have passed the Sixth Standard,
   and may be called S7. If necessary, Class P may be divided, the lower
   part being called P1, and the next P2. For purposes of inspection and
   examination every pupil in the school must be considered to belong to one
   of the standard classes as here defined, but for purposes of instruction the
   principal teacher of a school shall have full discretion to arrange his pupils
   in different classes for different subjects, according to their ability and
   proficiency with respect to the several subjects and according to the
   number of available teachers, and also to cause the children of two or
   more standard classes to be gathered into one class for instruction in any
   subject ; and if any pupil by reason of special ability or proficiency in any
   subject receives in such subject the instruction proper to a higher standard
   class than that to which he is considered to belong he may in such subject
   be examined with the higher class in which he has been placed for instruc-
   tion, and if, being so examined, he satisfies the examiner his success
   shall be reckoned towards his “pass” in his proper standard class. Also,
   at the discretion of a principal teacher, a pupil may be promoted to a
   higher standard class though he has failed at the examination in the work
   of the standard for which he was last presented.

5. At every standard examination the head-teacher shall present all
   the pupils on the school-roll, by giving the Inspector a list for each
   standard class, containing the names of all the pupils belonging to the
   class, and a schedule showing that the sum of the numbers of names in
   all the lists is identical with the number of the pupils on the school-roll.
   Against the name of every pupil who has already passed a standard the
   head-teacher shall enter in the class-list the number of the highest
   standard which the pupil has passed. Whenever a child more than eight
   years old is presented in Class P the principal teacher shall give the
   Inspector a written explanation of the reason for not presenting the child
   in Standard I., and the Inspector shall include in his annual report to the
   Minister a statement of his opinion with respect to the number of such
   cases and the sufficiency of the reasons assigned for them.

6. Against the name of any pupil who, during the three quarters
   preceding the quarter in which the examination takes place, has been
   as often absent as present, the head-teacher may write the number of the
   attendances of such pupil during the three quarters ; and such pupil, if he
   do not pass for the standard for which he is presented, shall not be deemed
   to have failed, but shall be considered “excepted,” and shall be included
   by the Inspector in the number of “exceptions” reported.

7. In order to obtain a pass, a pupil must be presented for a standard
   which he has not already passed, must be present in class during the
   examination in the class-subjects, and must generally satisfy the Inspector
   in the pass-subjects for the standard.

8. As soon as possible after the examination of a school the head-
   teacher shall be furnished with the names of the pupils who have passed
   the several standards, and shall record the passes in the Admission
   Register, and issue to every pupil who has passed a standard a certificate