INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS’ REPORTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1473, 27 February 1886, Page 2

INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS’ REPORTS.

SCOTS BURN. The Inspector of Schools in South Canterbury (Dr W. F. Anderson) held the annual Standard examination in the above school on January Bt!>. This school has greatly improved during the past year, and much credit is due to the teacher, Mr U. Qiymn Roslcruge. In his report the Inspector remarks that “ This school has passed a very creditable examination, and a manifest improvement has been made in its condition in every respect. The writing generally cannot yot bo considered good, but as the copy-books are neat and clean, and kept with great care, great advances may bo looked for in this respect. The records and general condition are very satisfactory, as also are order, discipline, and the repetition of poetry. Number on the roll, 41 ; percentage of passes, 94.1.” The following were the Inspector’s comments on the Standards :—“Standard IY. : Spoiling, very good ; geography, good ; reading, arithmetic, writing, grammar and history, fair. Standard 111. : Geography, history, grammar, good ; writing and reading, fair; arithmetic and spelling, rather weak. Standard 11. : Spelling and geography, excellent; arithmetic, very good ; reading and writing, fair. Standard I. : Spelling and arithmetic, excellent ; reading, good ; writing, fair. Infants, upper division ; Spelling and arithmetic, excellent; writing and reading, good. Infants, lower division : Very satisfactory in all subjects but arithmetic.” KAKA.HU BUSH. The following is Dr Anderson’s (Inspector to the South Canterbury Board of Education), report on the recent annual examination of the Kakahu Bush school : condition. The numbers have been steadily increasing; the classification is wonderfully good, considering the short period of the school’s existence, and the attainments of the children are in nearly all respects highly creditable to the skill and industry of the teacher. There is only one failure that of a pupil who too ambitiously attempts to skip a standard and undertakes work in which, from his youth, he could not reasonably be expected to succeed. Both Miss Meredith and the School Committee may be warmly congratulated on the prominent position the school has taken at this its first examination.” The school has now a total of 42 pupils oil the roll; the teacher is Miss Marion Meredith, certificated E 4 ; and from the analysis attached to the report we find that the discipline of (he school is excellent, the records and the general condition satisfactory. The percentage of passes on the number examined in standards was 95.7, a very high percentage indeed,