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3. ADDITIONAL SUBJECTS.

The subject-matter of the reading lessons.

Repetition of Verses.—Syllabus showing progress.

Singing.—Easy exercises on the common chord and the interval of a second, in common time and in ²⁄₄ time, not involving the use of dotted notes; use of the signs p., f., cres., dim., rall., and their equivalents; songs as before, or in common with the upper part of the school.

Needlework and Drill.—See Regulations 25 and 12.

STANDARD IV.

(The Standard of Education under Section 90 of “The Education Act, 1877.”)

1. PASS-SUBJECTS.

Reading and Definition.—An easy book of prose and verse.

Spelling and Dictation suited to this stage, as represented by the reading-book in use; the dictation to exhibit a knowledge of the use of capitals and punctuation, but (at inspection) to be confined to prose.

Writing.—Good copies in a hand not larger than round-hand, and transcription of poetry.

Arithmetic.—Long multiplication of money; reduction of money, weights, and measures; the compound rules applied to problems in weights and measures; practice and the making out of bills of accounts and receipts; tables of money, weights, and measures; mental arithmetic to correspond. The weights and measures for this standard are: avoirdu pois weight, troy weight, long measure, square measure, measures of capacity and time, and angular measure. The questions for “pass” must not include the difficult cases in which division by 5½ or 30¼ with a remainder is involved, but such cases may be put separately as a test of the ability of the class.

Composition.—Letter-writing on prescribed subjects; the addressing of letters and envelopes.

Grammar.—The distinguishing of all the parts of speech in easy sentences; the inflections of the noun, adjective, and pronoun.

Drawing.—Practical plane geometry and very simple applications of scales to the geometrical problems. Freehand drawing to be kept up. (See Regulation 20.)

2. CLASS-SUBJECTS.

Geography.—New Zealand: Seat of Government; chief towns of provincial districts; leading products and industries according to locality; principal ports; interprovincial transit; principal objects of interest to tourists; rough maps of the colony showing such one set of principal features (as capes, towns, rivers, mountains) as the Inspector may require. Australia: The names and positions of the colonies and their chief towns, capes, bays, and ports. The map of the world: The principal trade routes; the countries in which the principal articles of commerce are produced; the chief ports and trading centres; the oceans and great seas; the most conspicuous geographical features of the several continents. The globe: The form of the earth; the daily rotation; the annual revolution; the approximately stable direction of the axis; day and night; the seasons; the zones; meridians and the cause of the differences of local time. Although permission is granted in Regulation 19 to vary the order of subjects in the course of instruction in geography, the preparation for Standard IV. must always include accurate and efficient instruction on the effects of the inclination of the earth’s axis to the plane of its orbit.

English History.—The period from the Norman conquest to the Battle of Bosworth: About twenty-five persons and events, and about twelve dates are to be selected from this period by the teacher. (See Regulation 16, and the description of the work in history for Standard III.)

Elementary Science.—As prescribed in Regulation 21 or 22.

3. ADDITIONAL SUBJECTS.

Recitation.—A list of pieces learnt, and one piece (or more) specially prepared for the examination.

Singing.—Easy exercise on the chords of the dominant and sub-dominant, and in the intervals prescribed for Standard III.; exercises in triple time; use of dotted notes; melodies, rounds, and part songs in common with the higher standards. [Note.—It will suffice if this class take the air of the songs while the other parts are sung by the more advanced classes, and it may be useful to let older scholars lead the parts in a round.]

Needlework and Drill.—See Regulations 25 and 12.