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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 7

“annual report” on that school. No notice shall be required for any other visit than the annual visit. After one of his visits in each year the Inspector shall present an “inspection report.” The inspection report may, if the Inspector see fit, be presented at the same time as the annual report. A special report may be presented after any visit. In these regulations a “year” means a year beginning with the 1st January.

2. For purposes of instruction, the pupils of every public school shall be divided into classes for the several subjects according to the standards defined by the syllabus of subjects, as follows: With regard to any subject, Class I. shall include all the children doing the work prescribed for Standard I. in that subject, and may be called S1: for instance, S1 English will include all the children doing the work in English prescribed for Standard I.; S1 arithmetic, those doing the arithmetic of Standard I.; and so on for the other subjects. Class II. shall include all the children doing the work prescribed for Standard II., and may be called S2; and so on to Class VII. 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.

3. The classification of a school shall be made by the head-teacher, who 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 to group two or more classes for instruction in one subject. This discretion he must exercise to the satisfaction of the Inspector, who will regard as an element of weakness any undue complexity in the classification of pupils. As a general rule, pupils should be classified according to their capacity and attainment in English and arithmetic respectively, classification in English being determined by proficiency in English, and classification in arithmetic by proficiency in arithmetic.

4. Promotion of pupils from class to class may be made at any time by the head teacher, provided that, as a general rule, in Standards III., IV., and V. promotion shall not be granted in English unless the pupil satisfies the requirements of the standard in three at least of the four subjects included under that head, two of which shall be reading and composition; and that also, as a general rule, in Standards I.—V., the classification for English and arithmetic shall not in the case of any pupil differ by more than one standard.

5. A head teacher shall hold periodic examinations of his school, and shall keep for the information of the Inspector a record of the nature and results of each of these examinations. The record should also show all changes from class to class made as a result of the examination to which it relates. These records, as well as the class-registers and the copies of the Inspector’s reports and class-lists, shall be kept in the school for not less than ten years; and in the case of the closing of a school shall be delivered up to the Education Board, to be kept for a similar period, as the Board shall direct.

6. Before the Inspector’s annual visit, the head teacher shall prepare class-lists on the forms provided by the Department. The class in which a pupil has been placed for English during the preceding three months shall determine the list on which his name shall appear. The class-lists shall contain—(a) the names and ages of all the pupils on the school roll; (b) the number of half-days on which each pupil has attended the school since the last annual visit of the Inspector; and, where necessary, (c) the number of half-days each pupil has attended the class in which he is placed for English, (d) the classes in which pupils have been placed for other subjects besides English during the preceding three months, and (e) the number of half-days each pupil has attended such classes.

7. The Inspector may require the head teacher to note in the column for remarks the reason for more or less rapid promotion in the case of any pupil, or to give an explanation in the case of any pupil whose age is much above the average age of the pupils in that class for that school or that education district; and the Inspector may approve or not of the sufficiency of the reason or explanation given.

8. In general, pupils shall be expected to pass through at least one class in each subject every year; and the head teacher shall indicate the subjects in which any pupil is not in a class higher than that in which he was placed at the previous annual visit of the Inspector.

9. In order to satisfy himself of the general efficiency of the instruction given in the school, the Inspector shall at his annual visit devote the major portion of his time to an investigation of the character of the teaching and of the degree to which the intelligence of the pupils has