✨ Native School Curriculum Standards
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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expression of money and common weights and measures
in decimal forms, and the converse, multipliers and
divisors in all cases to be integers; mensuration of walls
and floors and other simple rectangular areas as far as
possible from actual measurements.
(3.) Handwork.
(a.) Elementary geometrical drawing; drawing of common
objects continued.
(b.) A definite course of elementary manual training, e.g.,—
(i.) Extension of work in modelling, &c.
(ii.) Woodwork.
(iii.) Practical agriculture.
(iv.) Needlework,
(v.) Domestic duties,
} For girls only.
(4.) Nature-study (extended).
Physical phenomena; animal and plant life—direct observa-
tional and experimental work of previous standards con-
tinued and extended; comparison of maps and measure-
ments therefrom; further features of industrial and social
geography of general interest graphically treated; the
British Empire (Standards V and VI).
(5.) Morals. (See clause 17.)
(6.) Singing. (See clause 18.)
(7.) Physical Exercises and Laws of Health. (See clauses 19 and
20.)
STANDARD VI.
(1.) English.
(a.) English language: Revision of the work of previous
standards, including a reasonable knowledge of the
structure of easy sentences; further exercises in the
blending and variation of sentences; also exercises
in placing words, phrases, and clauses in their proper
order; oral and written composition, including the
reproduction of poetry and other literary pieces, and
simple business letters.
(b.) Reading: Two books suited to this stage.
(c.) Writing business letters and forms with bold headlines.
(d.) Spelling: Word-building continued; scientific and
technical words in common use, and other words in one
of the reading books; dictation from a daily news-
paper or any similar matter.
(2.) Arithmetic.
Vulgar and decimal fractions (excluding recurring decimals);
percentages—e.g., simple and compound interest; profit
and loss; commission and commercial discount; compound
proportion; easy cases of partnership; troy weight; square
root; simple cases of mensuration of plane surfaces and of
solids bounded by planes; kilometer, meter, decimeter,
centimeter, millimeter, kilogram, gram; mental arith-
metic.
(3.) Handwork.
(a.) Drawing as for Standard V, but more advanced; in
addition, drawing of easy models.
(b.) A definite course of elementary manual training, e.g.,—
(i.) Extension of previous work in modelling, &c.
(ii.) Woodwork.
(iii.) Practical agriculture.
(iv.) Needlework,
(v.) Domestic duties,
} For girls only.
(4.) Nature-study (extended). (See under Standard V.)
(5.) Morals. (See clause 17.)
(6.) Singing. (See clause 18.)
(7.) Physical Exercises and Laws of Health. (See clauses 19 and
20.)
STANDARD VII.
(1.) English.
More advanced work than in Standard VI.
(2.) Arithmetic.
Arithmetic and mensuration, more advanced than for
Standard VI; meaning of a simple balance-sheet and of
a cash account.
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