June 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 945

"The Education Act, 1877."—Regulations for Inspection
and Examination of Schools.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this nineteenth
day of June, 1894.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

I
N exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities
vested in him by "The Education Act, 1877," the
Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the colony, doth hereby make the following regu-
lations for the inspection and examination of schools; and,
with the like advice and consent, doth order that the same
shall come into force on the first day of July, one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-four, and that on the said date all
previous regulations upon the same subject shall be can-
celled:—

INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS, AND STANDARDS OF EXAMINATION.

1. Once in every year every public school shall be both
   inspected and examined by a Public School Inspector. If
   possible, there shall be an interval of some months between
   the inspection and the examination. As soon as possible
   after the inspection the Inspector shall present an "inspec-
   tion report," and as soon as possible after the examination
   an "examination report." In these regulations a year
   means a year beginning with the 1st of January; and an
   Inspector's annual return must relate strictly to a year as
   thus defined.

2. The inspection report shall relate to such topics as the
   following:—

I. List of standard classes and teachers; II. Remarks on
the organization, as shown under Topic I.; III. Suitability
of time-tables; IV. Remarks on the methods and quality of
the instruction in general or in detail; V. Order and disci-
pline, and the tone of the school with respect to diligence,
alacrity, obedience, and honour; VI. Supervision in recess;
VII. Manners and general behaviour of the pupils; VIII.
State of buildings, ground, and fences; IX. Sufficiency of
school-accommodation; X. Cleanliness and tidiness of
rooms and premises, including outside offices; ventilation
and warming; XI., &c. Other topics.

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 correspond-
ing 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 in-
struction, 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 present,
   and the number of "passes" in each standard, and the
   Inspector's judgment of the quality of the work done in the
   "class-subjects," the quantity and quality of the work in
   "additional subjects," and the efficiency of the instruction in
   Classes P and X; and the degree of discretion displayed
   in the determining of the passes in Standards I. and II.
   The terms used in this regulation shall be used in the ex-
   amination 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 include 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 Class X. 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 the 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 sub-
   jects 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 instruction; 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 In-
   spector a list for each standard class, containing the names
   of all the pupils belonging to the class, and a schedule show-
   ing 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 passed a standard
   at a previous examination 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. Immediately before the examination held by the In-
   spector, the head-teacher (and for the purposes of this and
   the following regulations a sole teacher shall be considered
   head-teacher) shall examine Classes S1 and S2, and shall
   ascertain what pupils are fit to pass Standards I. and II.
   respectively, and the pupils he deems fit to pass shall, if they
   are present in class during the Inspector's examination in
   class-subjects, be deemed to have passed, and shall there-
   upon be marked as passed in the list given to the Inspector.
   The passes for Standards III., IV., V., and VI. shall be de-
   termined by the Inspector.

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 (or in Standards I. and
   II. the head-teacher) 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 (including Standards
   I. and II.), and shall record the passes in the Admission
   Register, and issue to every pupil that has passed a standard
   a certificate of pass in that standard; and every pupil re-
   moving from one public school to another shall be required
   on entering to exhibit his latest certificate to the head-
   teacher, who shall make a record of the certificate in the
   Admission Register, and shall not present the pupil for
   examination for the standard to which such certificate re-
   lates.

9. The Inspector's report of a school examination shall
   show for each class the number of pupils presented, the
   number present at the time of examination, and the num-
   ber of pupils deemed to have passed.

10. The Inspector shall at the same time report on the
    degree of proficiency in each of the class-subjects. For the
    purpose of this regulation elementary science, together
    with object-lessons and lessons in natural history, manu-
    factures, and common things, shall be counted as one
    subject; mental arithmetic as one subject; grammar
    as one subject; history as one subject; and geography,
    so far as it is a class-subject, as one subject. In choosing
    a word to express his opinion of the quality of the work
    shown in any class-subject, the Inspector shall consider
    whether the subject is attended to in all the classes for
    which it is prescribed, and also whether it is efficiently
    treated. It is not to be expected that a small school with
    only one or two teachers will always be able to obtain great
    credit for "class-subjects." It is recognised that the degree
    of thoroughness with which these subjects are taught must
    depend to a large extent on the amount of teaching-power
    available, and that in this respect the results obtained in any
    school must be compared with the results obtained in other
    schools comparable in advantages; yet these subjects must
    always receive a due measure of attention, and the neglect
    of any one of them will be regarded as highly censurable.

11. The Inspector shall in general terms express his judg-
    ment of the value of the work done by the school in each
    of the "additional subjects." For the purposes of this regu-
    lation, repetition and recitation shall be reckoned as one sub-
    ject, disciplinary exercises and drill as one, singing as one,
    needlework as one, comprehension of the language of the read-
    ing-lessons as one. In judging the work in any "additional
    subject" the Inspector shall consider whether the subject is
    attended to in all the classes for which it is prescribed, and
    also whether it is efficiently treated. In the largest schools
    any neglect of these subjects is to be regarded as a ground
    of reproach; and, on the other hand, any good work under