FOXTON, SCHOOL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 32, 13 December 1878, Page 2

FOXTON, SCHOOL.

„ -A.- ■ ISESULTS OF THE EXAJtIXATIjX. Tho schedules wore furnished ot | the Local Uounnitte9 by the Inspector last week. The examination was hold on tho 19th ult, and embraced | tho Subjects prescribed wudor the regulations of the Wauganui ISoard The Inspector's method of examining the children being in all respects different from that of tho gentleman who hith3rlo has had charge of this educational district, and requiring for the three highest standards answers written on paper, to series of printed questions on various subjects, it was hardly to be expected that the results would eSqiial those which both parents and teachers have been accustomed to look for. Whatever then may bo set down by educational authorities as the value of this first examination «s an absolute test of the merits of the scholars or ■ of tho teaching afforded in the school, wo confess wo ourselves can set but littlo store by it. bat we are pleasod to be able to state that wo are surprised at tho results, Wo are surprised that so many have according to the Inspcctci* acquitted themselves sufficiently well to entitle them to a pas 3in tho several standards, but we aro also surprised in looking ovor the lists that in certain instances results have come out which are most unoxpeeted to teachers, to Committee, to tho pupils themselves, and, above all, to those who, nine times out of ton, aro as w*'ll qualified to form an opinion as any, viz., the general body of the schs ilars. Wo do not intend to give tho namo3 of tho several pupils who have passed but merely summarize tho results. For Standard VI., three out of four, or 75 per cent, havo passed. ! For Standard V., 100 per cent of tho : boys passed, and of boys and girls j together G2 per cent. In Standard ! IV , only two passed, while the rei inainder of ihoso who went in for | tlii3 standard are, with one or two ! exceptions, fairly well up towards the ; half marks necessary to a pass. Considering that this is the youngost i class having a written piper examina- ! tion it is not to bo wondered at that few succeeded in getting through. In ihe junior standards 1., If., and 111., we are not in a position to say j who have or have not passed, unless \ it bo taken for granted that all have ! fsi ;i od, for no information is afforded the master or the scholars beyond a j summary of results ; thus, in stanI dardlll. twolve pupils up for it, the ' satisfactory ara — iv reading 12, ■ writing 1 12, arithmetic 1, grammar 3, ; spoiling 4, geography 3. In stanj dard 11, six pupils up for it, satisi factory are — in reading G, writing (J, ' arithmetic 0, grammar 0, spelling .'}, j geography 3.— la standard i, 25 pupils up for it. — reading 24, writing 23, arithmetic 19, spelling 2-3, are I satisfactory. We again say that looking at theao results aud as tho method of examination we sot no j valuo upon this estimato of rosults, i for though in soni3 points it is hotter | than we expected, yet in others, whero we happen to have an intimate knowledge of the capabilities of tho i pupils, and (generally we say this as ! regards tho subjects of tho lower standards), wo cannot think that tho i Inspector has in any way arrive 1 at, a j just estimate- of tho acquirements of the youngsters whom he examined.