BOROUGH SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2260, 22 October 1889, Page 3

BOROUGH SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

. An adjourned meeting of tbe Borongb | School Oommittt« *v htld last e?enlu»>. Present : Mess's Silcoek (chairman), Bean, Crafgbead, P*ul, Porter and Sootk. ihbpiotor's espobt. The Inspectors report was read. The result of the recent examination fit ita*e& to be at followi. Presented 374 absent 8 ; exeepted, 3 ; failed, 40 ; passed, 157. Percentage of paaiei, 41*98 ; J percentage of failures, 20*30. Undei the beadlrg, General Remarks, j the Inspector said : Since the date ef the |ut examination the personnel of the •tail has greatly altered. The resignation of the second assistant mistress at the beginning of the year prwented ap opportunity for reorganising tbo tjohool pa the linea of the Board's most reoent regoletiom- Mils Stewatt, tbe first assUtaut, Moepted tbe portion of teoond •bblstant f s> position for wbloh she is tnnob better qualified. Her tffbrts this year have met <«Ub muoh greater •eoeptanoe than en any previou.' occasion. Ml Kennedy, who received tbe nevT appointment of first assistant master, is a ▼doable acqu'sltlon to tbe stiff. Do bae just bad time to give a foretaste of the ■operior quality of the work whloh may be expected from him when bli class gets • fall year's preparation*, Some three month 'a ago, Mr Low, by far the ablest of the papll teachers, haylDg completed bis term o! apprenticeship, terminated bis engagement with tbe Brard, and Mr Jamleson, a fourth year papll toaober from the Hampstrad school, was appointed In bis atesd. Tbe Utter may be congratulated on having carried to a very successful Issue tbe work began by his predeoetfsor ; bis olass In S 2 Is Indeed an admirable one. The last and most Important ohange of all bas been the taking over the appointment of headmaster within tbe last fortnight by Mr Mayne. The large measure of success whtoh attended Mr Mftyne's management of a very similar sohool might well give us re»son to hope that the fmture of th's Important school of which he now takes obarge will be much more prosperous than its past has been. The conditions, then, under whloh tbe work of instruction has forsrme time been prosecuted, have been euoh as to preolude tktxfbigb expeo»B>t(ons of the rcsnlts to be •ohleved at the present examination Tbe most we ooold look for was tbat there might be some defioite r siora^oe (hat the ateps wbfob have been taken, tend In (be direction of improvement, aod th's atsareooa the results of tbe examination clearly * give. Ido not make In tbls report my onstomary remarks on the various olaraes and subject jcf Inn ruction, I spent more time than usual m the examination of tbe aobool, sod I wont curvfally Into every d|^ of the work with the he d master. U B. Woop, M, A, Jpipeotpr,

KESIQNATI N. ' Mlbs Andrews forworded bet reo'gnftMon Bi head mistress of the Infant soh joI. The roilgnation wto aooepted hat It was decided to esk the opinion of th" Boird, as to the *dvl«nb!enewj of Miss Andrewo bolng rffeeed 'ho poi't'on of sailntftnt mt*tresn and Ml™ Stewart being aeked to taku charge of the Infant eohoo'. KtrAirs It was decided to apply to apply to the B a r d for a grait In itld for ropalilng tho . fouoei round th<> e^h nl grouudi. ' TKNDEBB. Tenders were ac-oepied for enndry rerepairs and afier tho t?aojootlo:i <l somo rontlno bnslnenw the comm't'o" t»dj moid.