Feilding School Committee.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 59, 4 September 1894, Page 2

Feilding School Committee.

A meeting of the above was held last evening,Y there being present Messrs Carthew (in the chair), W. GK Haybittle, Dr Sorley, W. G. SbeaTer, and H. Worsfold. . The headteacher, Mr J. C. Hill, waV also in attendance. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. Correspondence was read as under : — From the Secretary Wanganui Education Board, stating .that the Board bad appointed Mias Gertrude Watts a Cadet at the Feilding school, and informing the committee that the appointment of Mr H. J, Carter as First Assistant Master of tne Feilding school had heen confirmed.' V The Truantlnspector, Mr F. Flavall, reported having called and. served notices upon 24 parents. AU found various excuses for children being absent from school, sickness a ont account of either children or parents, and for domestic purposes being thechief reasons. He mentioned that one lad 12 years of age, and in the Ist standard, was kept at home to mind cows. -""' " .... ■;-,- The headmaster's report was read, in which it was stated that the attend ance for the past quarter was 229, while for the previous quarter it was 271, thus showing a falling off; He also recommended the purchase of several school requisites. 'i A circular was read from the Taradale School Committee, Hawke's Bay, and asking the committee to endorse the foUowing resolution, viz. : "That in the opinion of this committee the present practice of leaving this inspection and examination . ol eaoh educational and echoor district year, after year in the hands of the same officer, is not conducive to the beet.interetitg of education. It is therefore desirable to approach all the school committees of New Zealand with a view to obtaining their co-operation in representing to the Minister of Education the propriety of making arrangements that no school shall be under the same Inspector for two, successive i yesufs/' Eesoived, That the correspondence, and headmaster's report be received, and that accounts to the amount of £1 1 6s be passed for payment; s ■'-•■■ Eesoived, That the school requisites asked for by the headmaster be referred to the Visiting Committee. Eesoived, on the motion of Mr Haybittle, seconded by Mr Worsfold, That with reference to the request of the Taradale School Committee, this committee is of opinion that . the Inspector be removed every three* years. ." Z- : '..'.. Proposed by Mr Haybittle, seconded by Mr Worsfold, That unless the parents on whom the Truant Inspector has served notices send their children to school for the required timo, he be instructed to serve them with summonses to appear at the R.M, Court. — Carried. '" .* * The chairman stated that complaints had been made to him about some children who had passed the .2nd Standard being put back into the Ist, and the parents seemed to think that a child having once passed a certain standard it was unfair fpr it to again be presented in it. He (the chairman) would like the headmaster to explain this. Mr Hill didsoasfoUows: — Having recently examined the school carefully : he found that some children who had been very irregular in attendance had got so behind their class in work that they were doing nothing in that class, and were only a drag , on it, and sequently they had been put back a standard, say from the 2nd to the Ist, However, a child could not be presented a second time in the same standard, and although put back to the Ist it would have to be presented in the 2nd. This method was universally adopted. The committee were of, opinion that Mr Hill's explanation was quite satisfactory. y Messrs Worsfold and Taylor were appointed the Visiting Committee for I the next month, and the meeting adjourned. — .— PP— I_M»