TEMUKA SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 922, 25 February 1882, Page 3

TEMUKA SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

The following report was crowded out of our last issue : inspector's report. "Report on the annual standard exanimation of the Temuka school, held on December 21st and 22nd, 1881.—Staff : Mr A. Mcintosh (D), Read Master ; Mrs Rowe (E), Mistress ; Mr E. Smith (uncertificated), Third Teacher ; Miss H. Klee> third year P.T. ; Miss B. Brown, fhird year P.T. ; Miss E. Guy, first year P.T. Attendance : Number on roll, 350» average attendance, 207 ; present at examination, 219. Results of examination in passes : —Standard VI, presented 6, passed 2 ; Standard V, presented 1 3, passed 3 ; Standard IV, presented 18, passed 10 ; Standard 111, presented 37, passed 16 ; Standard 11, presented 36 passed 25 ; Standard I, presented 30, passed 25; total, 140 presented, 81 passed; percentage of passes, 578. Classification after examination :—Passed Standard VI, 2 ; passed Standard V, 7 ; passed Standard IV, 20 ; passed Standard Til, 24 ; passed Standard IJ, 46 , passed Standard I, 36 ; lelow Standard I, 84 ; total 219. General remarks—The report on last Standard examination showed a falling off in the percentage of passes and indicated serious dafects in the general results, attributable to the absence of close supervision and periodical -examination of the Head Master. The year's results show a further reduction in the percentage of passss, and a marked deterioration in the value of the work produced. In Standards VI and V very little of the work reaches the requirements of the syllabus, and in some subjects (notably | arithmetic and composition) there is an absence of thoroughness that cannot be accounted for. Standard VI gives evidence of able teaching, but the work is very uneven, two of the subjects—arithmetic and history —altogether failing to meet the requirements Standard 111 has received very inefficient instruction, and must have had little or no supervision from the Head Master. The elementary work of the lower Standards is on the whole satisfactory ; the few defects noted arise from want of efficient supervision, not from want of ability or zeal in the subordinate teachers. Satisfactory order is maintained in the class work, but the general discipline and tone have snffered with the general attainment and from the same cause, (Signed) H. W. Hammond Inspector of Schools"