PUPIL TEACHERS' EXAMINATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9091, 27 June 1888, Page 5

PUPIL TEACHERS' EXAMINATION.

The annual examination of pupil teachers and candidates for employment in the public schools under the jurisdiction of the Auckland Board of Education was commenced at Wellesley-street School (Auckland), Waiokaraka School (Grahamstown, Thames), and at the District School (Hamilton West). The examinations are being supervised by Rev. E. H. Gulliver at Auckland, Inspector Airey at the Thames, and Inspector Fidler at Hamilton. The attendance this year is excellent, there being no absentees at all at Auckland, and none have been notified absent at the other two places of examination. The numbers in attendance for examination are : Auckland, 53 first year pupil teachers, 33 second year pupil teachers, and 63 candidates for employment, or a total of 149. At the Thames, 10 first year pupil teachers, 6 second year pupil teachers, and 10 candidates for employment, or a total of 26 ; at Hamilton there are 5 first year pupil teachers, 8 second year pupil teachers, and 13 candidates for employment, or 26 in all. Altogether, at all the examination places there are 68 first year pupil teachers, 47 second year pupil teachers, and 86 candidates for employment, making a total of 201 altogether. Of these 201 candidates for examination, 50 of them are males and 150 females. Inspector Goodwin is overlooking the whole examination. The candidates are being examined under distinguishing numbers, and are forbidden to disclose their names or the schools to which they belong. The key to the numbers is kept by Mr. Vincent E. Rice, secretary to the Board of Education, and when the examination is concluded, the names and their marks will be disclosed.

The examinations are set down to be taken as follows :—Yesterday (Tuesday), geography, from half-past nine to half-past eleven a.m. ; literature, from a quarter to twelve a.m. to a quarter to one p.m. ; needlework (girls) and gymnastics (boys), from a quarter to two to a quarter-past three p.m. ; and school methods, from twenty minutes past three to ten minutes to five p.m. To-day, the examinations will be arithmetic, from half-past nine a.m. till noon, grammar from one to three p.m., algebra for boys, and gymnastics for girls, from ten minutes post three to five p.m. To-morrow (Thursday) composition will be taken from half-past nine to half-past eleven a.m., laws of health and domestic economy from one to half-past two p.m., and history from a quarter to three to five p.m. On Friday, drawing will be taken from half-past nine a.m. to naif-past twelve p.m. The individual examination of candidates in reading, recitation, and singing, will be held at suitable opportunities during the four days' examinations.