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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 106

all pupils that have passed the Sixth Standard, and may be called S7. The preparatory class shall include all pupils below Class I., and may be called Class P. Class P may be divided, the lower part being called P1, and the next P2; if necessary, these classes may be subdivided, as for instance, into P1 lower, P1 upper, P2 lower, P2 upper.

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; provided that any pupil must be placed in the same class for all the English pass-subjects—namely, reading, spelling and dictation, writing, and composition. The head-teacher may also cause the children of two or more classes to be grouped for instruction in any subject.

Every pupil examined by the Inspector shall be examined in the class in which he has been taught.

A pupil shall be held to belong to the standard class in which he is placed for the English pass-subjects.

3. In order to avoid undue complexity in the classification of their pupils, head-teachers are enjoined, due regard being paid to the needs of individual pupils, to keep the classes in the several subjects as nearly as possible the same for each standard. For certain groups of subjects there will probably be no difficulty in making the classes identical for the several subjects; for instance, S4 grammar, S4 history, S4 recitation, might almost without exception consist of the same individual children as S4 English; to these might generally be added S4 geography and S4 science; on the other hand, S4 arithmetic, S4 drawing, and S4 hand-work would probably differ, as regards a few individuals, from the other classes of Standard IV. An undue degree of complexity in the classification might justly be considered an element of weakness in a school.

4. Before the Inspector’s annual visit, the head-teacher (and for the purposes of these regulations a sole teacher shall be considered head-teacher) shall hold an examination of classes S1 to S5 inclusive in all the pass-subjects of the syllabus as prescribed for the several classes. The results of this examination shall be recorded on class-lists, which shall contain the names and ages of all the pupils on the school-roll, with the number of half-days on which each pupil has attended the school since the last annual visit. The class in which a pupil is placed for the English pass-subjects shall determine the list on which his name shall appear. Against the name of every pupil the head-teacher shall enter under each of the pass-subjects a figure denoting the standard which he judges the pupil to have passed in that subject. The figure 0 opposite the name of any pupil shall denote that the pupil has not shown sufficient merit to entitle him to be considered as having passed any standard in that subject. The underlining of a figure in red ink shall denote that a pupil has not passed a standard higher than that passed at the previous examination.

A pupil shall be held to have passed S1 or S2 if he fulfils the requirements of S1 or S2 respectively in reading, spelling, writing, arithmetic; provided that partial failure in spelling, or in writing, or in arithmetic may be overlooked if sufficient merit is shown in the three other pass-subjects.

A pupil shall be held to have passed S3 or S4 or S5 if he satisfies the requirements of such standard, or of a higher standard, in (1) reading, (2) spelling and dictation, (3) writing, (4) composition, (5) arithmetic, and has received regular instruction in the class-subjects; provided that work equal to the requirements of the next lower standard may be accepted in two, but not more than two, of the subjects (2), (3), (4), (5).

The class-lists shall form part of the permanent records of the school, and a duplicate thereof shall be handed to the Inspector at his annual visit.

The class-lists presented by the head-teacher shall be signed by the Inspector, unless he sees fit to exercise the right referred to in Regulation 6 of substituting the results of his own examination for those indicated on such class-lists. The signature of the Inspector on the head-teacher’s class-lists shall denote simply that he has seen them, and does not consider it necessary to substitute his own results for the results shown thereon.

5. In order to satisfy himself of the general efficiency of the instruction given in the school, the Inspector shall examine a due proportion of the pupils of each class, including Class P and Class S7, in such subjects as he shall choose.

[The Inspector may include in the number so examined any pupil concerning whom the teacher desires his judgment. The Inspector may, if he see fit, examine selected pupils of one class in some subjects, and those of another class in other subjects.]

6. The Inspector may, if he think fit, examine all the pupils of the school, or of any class, to ascertain their individual progress; and he may at his discretion direct that the results of such examination shall be sub-