GISBORNE HIGH SCHOOL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2377, 18 December 1908, Page 2

GISBORNE HIGH SCHOOL.

ADMISSION OF PUPILS.

COURSE OF INSTRUCTION. v

Tilie (Governors of the 'Gisborne 'High School have issued a prospectus, containing the rules aind regulations for the admission, of puipls and prescribing the course of instruction. The school will be under the sole management of the Governors, and will be open to receive pupils, both hoys and gilts, at the commencement of the school year at a date to be announced. INSTRUCTION.

Pupils admitted to the school, the prospectus states, can take a general, commercial, agricultural, or mechanical course. The Governors desire to offer ms nearly as possible the education required by all the pupils, harming regard to the various occupations it is expected they will bo engaged in alter leaving the school. The curriculum iis therefore framed so as to provide secondary Q.ducation for pupils intended for professional, agricultural, commercial, technical, and domestic occupations. The programme of each pupil will he determined by the head master of t'ho school after 'consultation with the parents or guardian of the pupil. No pupil will be .required to take Latin or to take more than one language other than, English. Latin will, however, be taught as an optional subject. Writing and neatness ’in written work will be insisted upon. The course will extend over three years. Every pupil will bo expected to have a distinct objective within the course selected. If not entering as a senior free pupil the pupil’s aim should be a pass for matriculation or the junior civil service; the special examination for senior free places; a junior scholarship; a technical scholarship; or some other definite educational goal likely to be of practical value approved by the head master.

ADMISSION. No pupil can be admitted, if previously trained at a public school, until he ha-s obtained « certificate of competency in the subjects of standard V : nor if lie has been privately educated until he passes an entrance examination .with merit equal at least to a certificate of competency in standard V. FREE PLAGES. Upon satisfactory evidence of good character‘a pupil may be admitted as a junior free pupil, or the holder of a junior free place if:—(a) He is the holder of am Education Hoard scholarship; a junior national scholarship ; or any other scholarsliiu upproved by the Minister for Education as a qualification : provided that the value of any such scholarship is not greater than £4O per annum, in the case of any pupil who is obliged to dive away from home in order to attend the school, or than £TO in any other case; or if: (b) he has qualified fox- an Education Board scholarship, or a. national scholarship, or lias qualified for a free place in the special examination for a junior free place held 'by the Education Department; or if: (c) being not over fifteen years of age on the first of December preceding the date of his admission to a free place, he has obij lined a certificate of proficiency as denned by regulations made under the Education Act. A. junior free place wiK be tenable at tlie Gisborne High School for two years from the first of January preceding the actual date of admission as ‘a free .pupil, but in the case of special merit or in the dase of a holder vho was under thirteen years ol age at the first of December preceding such date of admission the Minister may, on the receipt of a -recommendation from the head master -and from the Inspector-General of Schools, extend the tenure of the free place for a tliird year. In no case however shall a junior free place he tenable after the holder has passed his seventeenth birthday. SENIOR FREE PLACES.

. Pupils having qualified for a senior free place wild be admitted to tike school, uipon satisfactory evidence of good character, as free- pupils. Such pupils will be qualified if- they ai'o the {holders of an {Education Board senior scholarship, or have passed the matriciiilation examination, or the special examination for senior free places, or hare satisfied the examination requirements for an Education Board senior scholarship, or any other scholarship approved ■for the purpose by' the (Minister of Education.

Such pupils “may also be specially awarded senior free' places by the Minister for Education in terms of regulations. . A senior free place will be tenable at the Gisborne High School until the holder has reached his nineteenth birthday, hut mo longer.

GENERAL. All pupils applying for or holding free places will be subject to all requirements, conditions, - and limitations (if any) prescribed or imposed by regulations now ini force or from time to time made under the Education Act. The not fees to be charged to those Avho are not holders of scholarships or of free places will bo £6 6s per annum, payable in advance in three equal instalments on or 'before the first daiy of each term. The school year will consist of tlvrec terms of about thirteen weeks each. Until a hoarding house under the

charge of one /of the masters- can he established, the Governors will bo prepared to arrange with hostels or boarding housecs prepared to receive pupils and to submit to inspection at periodic times by a person appointed by the 80-ard. Scales of approved charges will also if possible toe arranged. The Governors toeing “the controlling (authority” ‘at Gisiborne for technical education, pupils attending tlio High School will have all the advantages which are to toe obtained from attend nice at the special classes free of charge. "