Education Regulations




(iii) Supervising older children’s organized activities while using educational apparatus (e.g., reading, writing, or number games).
(iv) Supervising younger children’s free activities, using any suitable kindergarten objects and materials.
(v) Conducting an organized game, a rhythmic game, or a period of eurhythmics.
(vi) Directing children’s employment in any form of handwork.

(2) Manual Arts and Occupations.
(a) Candidates must be prepared to demonstrate with the material supplied, their proficiency in the following:—
(i) Blackboard sketching: To copy from nature, common objects—e.g., leaves, flowers, fruit, animals; to copy (enlarged) a simple picture; and to sketch simply a story illustration prescribed by the examiner.
(ii) Blackboard writing: Large hand or print script. The script used should be a correct model for imitation by the pupil.
(iii) Crayon or brush drawing as part of a training course in nature study (e.g., six simple nature forms).
(iv) Modelling in any suitable plastic medium an object, a figure, an incident in a story, &c.
(v) Paper work: Free tearing and cutting for decoration (in form of picture frieze or conventional design), folding, cutting, and modelling in the construction of a simple object fulfilling a real purpose interesting to a kindergarten child.
(vi) Weaving, in wool or raffia, a simple article on a home-made loom (loom to be shown).
(vii) Toymaking: A toy (preferably a working model) made from waste products obtainable from home or community without cost (or costing a few pence only).
(viii) Teaching apparatus: A hand-made reading, word-study, or number game.
(ix) Needlework: An article such as a kindergarten child would like to make and decorate.

(b) Candidates are also required to bring to the examination room the following:—
(i) A completed project in handwork consisting of a group of hand-made articles depicting a scene, an incident, or a process that would interest kindergarten children;
(ii) A small set of teaching apparatus or material;
(iii) One or two samples of needlework suitable for kindergarten children.

The candidate is required to hand to the examiner a certificate from the head teacher of a kindergarten school or public school or from the Principal of a training college certifying that the work submitted is the result of the candidate’s unaided effort.

(3) Nature Study.—The candidate’s knowledge should be extensive enough to cover all the nature-study topics usually raised by young children’s questions and their spontaneous interests, and should include the following:—
(a) Animal Life: Elementary knowledge of animal classification, and the structural differences illustrated by such types as jelly fish, earthworm, snail, house fly and cat (or dog or horse). Life histories of the cat, dog, horse, rabbit, mouse, fowl, pigeon, sparrow, fish, frog, bee, butterfly, spider, snail, earthworm. Candidates should show ability to introduce the facts of a life history into a simple story (not a fairy story).
(b) Plant Life: Elementary knowledge of structure and growth of plants. The parts of a plant and their functions. Recognition of common trees by their general appearance and by their bark, leaves, flowers, and fruit—e.g., oak, willow, pine, poplar, and a few native trees, according to locality. The making of and the care of a child’s garden. The characteristics of half a dozen common garden or field flowers. Candidates will be expected to illustrate their answers by means of sketches.
(c) Earth Knowledge: The importance of light, heat, and moisture to the life of plants and animals. Evaporation and condensation; clouds, rain, dew, snow, frost. Weather and climate. Formation of soils.



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