A NEW SYLLABUS.

New Zealand Mail, 21 February 1901, Page 49

A NEW SYLLABUS.

PUPIL TEACHERS’ CLASSES. The syllabus for pupil teachers under the Wellington Education Board for 1901 has now been drawn up rvs follows: 1. In pupil teachers of first and second years (juniors): English, reading, recitation, spelling j writing and 1 composition; history, so' far as to shof ability to give instruction' in ; it to Third Standard class (vide standard syl labus); arithmetic, reduction, ; vulgar and decimal fractions; science/ fundamental ideas of matter and motion, conditions of matter, gravitation, mechanical powers; school management, Garlick, to end of long division (arithmetic, pages Ito 114 first, edition); drawing, attendance at Technical School, or if attendance prevented by distance, by correspondence with ivir Riley; singing. . • For pupil teachers of third and fourth, year (senior) —English, as for juniors; history, England in simple outline; arithmetic, general; science, school management, and drawing, as for juniors ; singing; one optional subject from the class D list (Euclid 1 , algebra, French, Latin, etc.); for recitation, 100 lines from Henry V. (Shakespeare). Matriculated students are required to attend classes in science, . school management, drawing, and singing, and present themselves for examination. in these subjects. ' The classes to be held this year will begin to-day, and the instructors and places of tuition are—Science ''seniors and juniors), Mr Foster, Board Office, Monday; school method (seniours), Mr Webb, Board Office, Tuesday; juniors, Mr Erskine, Te Aro School, Tuesday; arithmetic (seniors and juniors), Mr Barry, Board Office, Wednesday; English (seniors and juniors), Mr Darrooa, Te Aro School, Thursday. The classes meet at 4 o’clock each afternoon.