New Zealand Gazette – 1904 – No. 32

Page 1063

✨ School Curriculum Standards VI and VII

APRIL 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1063

STANDARD VI.

Compulsory Subjects.

(1.) English (see clauses 37, 38):
(a.) Reading.—Two books.
(b.) Composition.—Revision and extension of the work of previous standards.
(c.) Spelling.—Word-building continued; also, technical words in every-day use and the words from one of the reading-books.
(d.) Writing.—More advanced transcription.
(e.) Recitation.—Not less than 250 lines of poetry or prose.
(2.) Arithmetic (see clause 39):—Vulgar and decimal fractions (excluding recurring decimals) more advanced percentages, compound proportion; easy partnerships; troy weight; metric weights and measures; square root; easy mensuration; shorter methods.
(3.) Drawing. (See clauses 44, 45, 46.)
(4.) Singing. (See clause 52.)
(5.) Physical Instruction. (See clause 47.)
(6.) Geography:—Course A—Scale of maps generally; the following subjects treated somewhat more fully than in earlier classes: ice, deltas, and alluvial plains; winds; climate; the seasons; geographical zones. (See clause 41.) Course B (Mathematical Geography, &c.)—(see clause 42)—The following subjects, to be taught as far as possible from actual observation: Daily rotation of the earth; meridians, longitude, approximately stable position of the earth’s axis, annual revolution of the earth round the sun, form of the earth, latitude, altitude of the sun at various times and places, inclination of the earth’s axis to its orbit, length of the day at different times and places; the seasons, Arctic and Antarctic Circles, tropics, zones, trade-winds, &c.; climatic effects of conditions dealt with herein.
(7.) History, including civic instruction. (See clause 49.) Instruction of the kind indicated in clauses 48, 53, and 57 must also be given.

Additional Subjects.

(1.) Elementary Science. (See clauses 54, 55, 56.)
(2.) Handwork. (See clause 58.)
(3.) Geography. (See clause 43.)
(4.) History. (See clause 50.)
(5.) Needlework. (See clause 51.)

STANDARD VII.

Compulsory Subjects.

(1.) English—More advanced work than in Standard VI., including the study of some author or authors. (See clauses 37, 38.)
(2.) Arithmetic—Arithmetic and mensuration more advanced than for Standard VI.; meaning of a simple balance-sheet and of a cash account. (See clause 39.)
(3.) Military Drill.

Additional Subjects.

(1.) Drawing.
(2.) Geometry.
(3.) Algebra.
(4.) Elementary Mechanics.
(5.) Physics.
(6.) Chemistry.
(7.) Botany.
(8.) Book-keeping, as for Civil Service Junior Examination.
(9.) Shorthand.
(10.) Agriculture.
(11.) Physiology.
(12.) Geology.
(13.) Geography, as for Civil Service Junior Examination.
(14.) History, as for Civil Service Junior Examination.
(15.) Handwork (one or more branches).

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