SCHOOLS GRADING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 1, 24 September 1937, Page 9

SCHOOLS GRADING

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New Regulations Alter Basis

SMALLER CLASSES POSSIBLE

(By Telegraph-

.WELLINGTON, Last Night. Notification of the issue of gradiu of schools regulations, 1937, is contained in a Gazette to-day. These ; regulations fix the basis on which I pnmary public schools are to be graded next year. Previously .the regulations provided that primary schopis were to be graded on the average attendance for the twelvo months ended August 3T of the previous year. Owing to the influx of five-year-old children into schools, .that method was not followed last year and the basis taken was 95 per cent. of the average number on the j roll for the first four weeks of the j • third term for 1936. j The regulations now being issued go j further and provido that the average j number (instead pf 95 per cent.) on •! the roll for the first four weeks cf Ihe j third term of 1937 will be taken as a : basis for grading and staffing schools | next year. This will 'give schools an i advantage in staffing and should help ; in reducing somewhat the size ,o±' ' classes. A further notification concerns ,the issue of regulations relating to the staffing of native sehool3. For some time it has been felt that the largest of .the native schools had not been i adequately staffed from the point of view of tho number of certificated : assistant teachers employed. The regu- , lations now issued provide a new • schedule of staffing for nativo schools, which includes additional positions for assistant teachers carrying salaries of a bigher annual rate than those formerly enjoyed. An amendment is also included to bring the regulations in regard to the payment of increments of salaries of native school teachers into line with those relating to teachers in public schools.