WELLINGTON EDUCATION BOARD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4387, 7 April 1893, Page 3

WELLINGTON EDUCATION BOARD.

'Pupil Teachers Examination.

In their report to tho Board of Education on the results of tlio rocent examination of pupil teachers, tho Examiners (Messrs Lee and Fleming) state that 68 candidates wero examined, ton of whom tailed to obtain promotion—two on account of age only; four others, who bad not received instruction for six months, were not counted as failures, and four wero counted as failures. In grammar, the work of the senior candidates was very fair, the average boing 65 per cent on a somewhat easy paper, The juniors were not quite so successful, their avorage only reaching 58 per cent. Of tho seniors, Ella Barron, (Mnaterton), arid Mary H. Wilson, (I'flngatainolfo), and of the the juniors, Nellio Riddick (Featberston), Kato McKay (Hastwell), and Ethel Keith (Mount Cook Girls), did excellent papers. The composition work as a whole was good, but the best papers were by Caroline Kelliber (Fernridgo), Mary H. Wilson, and Ernest H, Ballachey (unattached). The school managementpaper was satisfactorily answered by all but one or two exceptionally weak candidates. The best'papers were by Mary H. Wilson, Ethel Seith, Elizabeth Benbow (Terrace School), and Kate Williams (Mount Cook Girls). The papers of George Jones (Newtown), Mary fi, Wilson, and Reginald Fosb (Carterton), in science subjects, are commended. Political and physical geography papers were moderately good, 01 the optional subjects," fourteen candidates : I took algebrc, threp •of whom were 11 •„ eak, tho.olliprs obtaining over fifty iut

• r ci>d!„ Ortbe six who attempted ; :un'ch, only two obtained more than half marks. The one candidate who took Euclid was on utter failure; one who took German did a remarkably fair paper; and ono who took Latin did only a moderate paper. On the whole the papers were neatly written, but the arrangement of tlie matter waabad—of the C 8 candidates who answored the paper on grammar |l had their papers armWLtfk Kong order^j^jjUUH^nH

piece for Recitation for all pupil teachers this year will ho Byron's " I'iisoiior ofOhillon" (lines 107 to 280), asset for the scholarship examination, All matriculated students are required to attend the classes in science and school management Mid prosont tbamaolvoa for oxaniiuation in these subjects.—Post.