PUPIL TEACHER CANDIDATES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 163, 10 July 1907, Page 5

PUPIL TEACHER CANDIDATES.

RESULT OF EXAMINATION.

In connection with the examination of candidates under pupil teacher regulations results were submitted to the Education Board this morning showing that 16 males were examined, of which two passed, and 14 failed. 01 females were examined of which 2S passed, and 53 failed. .The following candidates were successful:—Lilian A. Bell, Cambridge District High School; Mary M. vßoswell, Coromandel District High School; Hilda B. Carley, Hamilton West District High School'; Ethel F. Carr,CambridgG District Sigh School; Gertrude - Clark, __jr_c_s_p_L -District !E_ierfc» _>i_._r_c_ High School; _vi_tirg_i ret- __- _..• Q.-»Qi| mm CoDtnoli: Upofetf | Con— ell. Waipu Ce-ntx-al; J±J——bet— Aparala j Oox_lie ._. I. JFrost, :>Xi—'iwai; Horace flame, Aratapu District High S—xool; CT—r-iar.TTTi. C. GiDtoj Paeroa District High School; Minnie G. Harrison, Mount Eden; Harvey Hawkins, Kiri Kiri; Alice H. Jackson, Aratapu District High School; EHen E. G. Klnight, Maungaturoto; Margery _[. Lochhead, Te Puna; Rosina F. Lowe, Kauaeranga; Blanche E. O'Neill, Cambridge District High School; Atny C. Rogers, Ma_ngaturoto; Margaret E. Soppett, Hamilton West District High School; Edna —- Stephenson, Kama Rama; A—nic M. Stewart, Taraunui; Daisy C. Stewart, Kati Kati, No 2.; Adelaide Tanner, Rati Kati !Nd. 2; Josephine C. Turner. Te Hahi No 2; Mary H. Tuthill, Kati Kati No 2; Kate E. Vickery, Tauranga; Lillie Walker, Warkworth: Henrietta Webb, Aratapu District High School. _f The chairman (Mr. L. J. Bagnall), remarked that the percentage of passes was very unsatisfactory. The examiners in music reported:— "Having been favoured with the conduct, of this examination since September, 1900, I have come to the conclusion that, wherever one-quarter of the ' amount of work given to English or any other subject has been given" to this subject, all have done well, and everyone who can hear can soon learn t<9 distinguish one note from another and -write them - down. 'It takes much longer time to learn to distinguish the slight inflections- of the vowels and consonants. No ear simply j means no application. I have had so I many excuses in the examination room iof the teachers having 6ore throats that j I should have liked to have had yonr per- ( mission to have quoted to the teachers when giving them their ear tests colleci tively the words of Sir Morell Mackenzie. M-D.," 5 page 162, and Dr. Lennox Browne, at one time senior surgeon to the Central London Throat and Ear Hospital, that school teachers .are subject to sore throat from so niueh. nse. and that when ont of school they' should therefore rest their voices when they can and breathe through their nostrils when not singing or speaking: and these doctors tell ns that singing is so good for health, for singing a prolonged note discharges the deadly carbonic acid' gas from the lowest part of the longs."

The needlework examiners in their report state: —

"The sewing at the 1907 examination is very similar to that of last year. The candidates, as a whole, show rather better work, but there are a few, specimens sent in, any one of which would he a disgrace to a standard 111. child. The seeocdvenr pupil teachers do not show the im--1 "provement that should be expected from tl»eir longer experience, some of their work rnniparing unfavourably with that of the 'candidates. The cutting out still shows that the girls do not practise this feature jas they ought to do. and it also argues a decided want of observation, and a lack of common sense. This same lack of cornman sense is also- shown in the careless manner in which some have read the spending a large portion •of i their time in useless work at the consequent expense of that which would earn marks." _______________