Schools' inspectors report (1898)

Post date: Feb 14, 2012 3:55:32 PM

Extract from Parish Magazine 1898:

The following is a summary of H.M. Inspector's Report upon the National Schools : —

BOYS' SCHOOL.—The school is sensibly and earnestly taught with distinct success. Discipline and tone are very good, and so are Drill and Singing by Note.

GIRLS' SCHOOL.—The Girls' School under the new Mistress seems to be improving both in the work itself and in general intelligence. Tonic Sol-fa teaching has made a successful start. Domestic Economy is sensible and Needlework good. Drill is systematic and good. The Girls' School is more in need of new or more apparatus than the Boys' Department.

INFANTS' CLASS.—The Infants' Classes during a part of the year were much in excess of the staff officially recognised as adequate for their teaching. The Infants' appear to have been fairly well taught on the whole.

Upon this report the Education Department request that the Staff of the Girls' and Infants' Departments should be at once strengthened so as to meet the requirements of the Code; and that a Certificated Teacher should be placed in charge of the Infants' Class. L. G. Shoobridge is recognised as a Probationer. The Managers have, accordingly, elected Mrs. Longley to the charge of the Infants' Class, and will take steps to obtain the recognition by the Department of Miss E. Baker as Assistant in the Girls' School.

The report is a good one. It is matter for congratulation, for Managers, Master, and Parents, that in the Boys' School the highest possible grant has this year, for the first time, been awarded. The willing support which the rate-payers have given to the schools during the past two years is beginning to show fruit.