INSPECTOR HODGSON'S REPORT ON LYELL STATE SCHOOL.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 303, 11 December 1886, Page 2

INSPECTOR HODGSON'S REPORT ON LYELL STATE SCHOOL.

Mr James Inglis, Chairman Lyell State School Committee: Sir, —By direction of the Education Board, I enclose for your information a copy of my Report and Examination Schedule of Lyell School. Kindly give the teacher interested an opportunity of seeing these documents. The Board has permitted me to explain, in justice to the teacher concerned, that no comparison of the work done last year with that done under the new Regulations issued by the Department is possible. Not only are the conditions of examination more difficult—a failure in any single subject being fatal to a candidate—but the method of calculating the per centage on the roll-number, instead of doing so on the proportion of passes to presentations in Standards, seriously reduces the per centage in all the schools. Where a school, after making due allowance for these drawbacks, has, in my opinion, done badly, the fact will be clearly pointed out in my written estimate of the state of your school. Lyell: (Mr Rotton) On roll 31; present 30. Although twenty-two of the fifty-three scholars formerly attending this school have been withdrawn to a Roman Catholic school lately opened at the Lyell, the thirty-one who remained showed that there was no falling off in the quality of the teaching, and that the master had not lost heart, as he might well have done, at so sudden aud serious a diminution of his pupils. The work fairly good all round: the Arithmetic, especially that of the upper classes, being excellent. The Geography and History were also exceptionally good. The tone and discipline of the school are creditable. W. C. Hodgson, Inspector.