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been developed, and to this end he shall examine a due proportion of the pupils in each class, including Class P and Class S7, in such subjects as he shall choose.

10. Every pupil examined in any subject by the Inspector shall be examined in the class in which he has been taught during the preceding three months; but the Inspector or the teacher may exclude from the examination of a class any pupil who has made less than one hundred half-day attendances in such class.

11. At the time of his annual visit, or of any other visit, the Inspector may, but only if the circumstances seem to call for such exceptional action, examine all the pupils of the school, or of any class, to ascertain their individual progress, and he may modify the classification of the head teacher by directing that any pupil or pupils shall be placed in any class or classes that he may name. Such modified classification shall thereupon for three months, or such shorter period as the Inspector may prescribe, be substituted for the classification of the head teacher. In such cases the effect of clauses 3 and 4 will be modified accordingly.

12. When a child leaves one school for another the head teacher shall furnish him with a “certificate of transfer,” showing (1) the class or classes in which he is placed for English and arithmetic; (2) the date of the last annual visit of the Inspector; (3) the number of half-day attendances he has made since that annual visit; (4) the number of half-day attendances he has made since the date of his last promotion in English and arithmetic respectively; and (5) the other subjects (including military drill) in which he has been receiving instruction.

13. The annual report shall show the number of pupils in each class, the number present, and the Inspector’s judgment of the quality of the work done in the compulsory subjects, the quantity and quality of the work in the additional subjects, and the efficiency of the instruction in Class P; the degree of discretion displayed in the classification of the pupils, in the determining of the promotions from class to class, and the organization of the school in other respects—e.g., in regard to the average number of children present at any one time under the instruction of any teacher or teachers. (Subject to the conditions of classification, and the suitability of the several teachers for the various classes of the school, the average number under the instruction of any teacher or teachers should not in general greatly exceed the number indicated by the scale of staffs in “The Public-School Teachers’ Salaries Act, 1901,” which allows not more than sixty children for each adult teacher, and not more than thirty for each pupil-teacher, or on the average not more than forty-five for each member of the staff.)

14. In expressing his opinion of the value of the work done in any compulsory subject, the Inspector shall consider whether the subject is taken by all the pupils in all the classes for which it is prescribed, and also whether it is efficiently treated.

15. In judging the work in the additional subjects in any school, the Inspector shall consider whether the number of subjects taken in the school is in accordance with clauses 29 to 35 of these regulations, and also whether these subjects are efficiently treated.

16. The inspection report shall relate to such topics as the following:—I. List of classes and teachers; II. Organization, as shown under topic I.; III. Suitability of time-tables; marking and keeping of registers; IV. Method and quality of the instruction in general or in detail; V. Order and discipline, 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; condition of school material and apparatus; ventilation, and warming; XI. List of class-books used in the school; XII. Special circumstances affecting the work of the school; XIII. Method, quality, and efficiency of the instruction given to pupil-teachers; XIV. 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. Section I. shall show what classes within the meaning of clause 2 of these regulations there are in the school, whether the classes are grouped for instruction, 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,” “head teacher,” “mistress,” “first assistant,” “third-year pupil-teacher,” or as the case may be. Any section except Sections I. and XI. may, if the Inspector so choose, consist of the appropriate number and of a single word, such as “Satisfactory.”