EDUCATION.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 363, 18 February 1876, Page 3

EDUCATION.

A visit.of inspection •'Was paid by Mr. Petrie to the IVaseby school this week. The Inspectors report —a copy of which we append—is enccuraging tot-he teachers and parents. At the last inspection, soon after the _ present teachers commenced their duties, the state of the school was not satisfactory. It is not an easy tiling to work up a backward school in a short time t On the other hand it is more creditable to find that the temptation to unduly push the classes forward was resisted, and the more judicious course followed to thoroughly ground the school in the more elementary subjects. Thatground now well secured, another year's work is certain to be accomplished with much solid satisfaction : _ [copy.] The Naseby School was visited by me on the 14th February, 1376. The state of instruction, both in the matron's and in the master's classes was very satisfactory. In the matron's department I would recommend somewhat more practice in simultaneous reading, especially in the lower classes, and the. putting of a suitable table book into the hands of the beginners in arithmetic. In teaching writing it would be advisable to use the script rather than the print writing character, to have the slates suitably iul-id. and the size of the letters more fully explained. In the upper department the manner of holding the pen in writing, and the position of the body, are in some cases faultv, and need attention. In both departments a little more practice in class drill and movements would be very beneficial. On the whole—though the pupils are not advanced for their ages, and the time they have been at school—the work professed by them was very thoroughly known, and rapid and solid progress may be anticipated. There is no reason why reading should not be in advance of the books named in -the various standards. The classification is judicious, and the methods of teaching good. (Signed) D. Petrie, M. A., 4 Inspector of Schools.