Inspector’s Reports.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXI, Issue 3573, 3 July 1903, Page 4

Inspector’s Reports.

Owing to a slip of the Inspector’s reports on the Woodville and Woodlands Boad schools having been missed, we. are publishing the reports again with the necessary addition of Mr Hill’s remarks on each standard and on the class subjects: The complete reports are as follow : WOODVILLE MAIN. PASS SUBJECTS. Standard V.—A class of good promise. Arithmetic uneven. Standard IV.—A good class. Arithmetic somewhat uneven. Standard lll.—Good average work. Somewhat slow in arithmetic. Standard ll.—An intelligent class under good control. Standard I.—An exceedingly good class of high merit. CLASS-SUBJECTS. Geography—Good. Drawing—Very commendable. Grammar —Very fair. Inflection and function to receive careful attention. History—Very fair. Social economy fairly good. Elementary science, object lessoni &c.—lntelligently prepared. Eecitation—Good. Handwork—Brushwork Standards V. and VT.Jexcellent. ADDITIONAL SUBJECTS. Singing—Not taken this year. Needlework—Very good, i - Drill and exercises—Esculent. INSTRUCTICTION OF STANDARD VII. AND PREPARATORY. A division well and carefully taught. The instruction is good. The progress very satisfactory. Honest and sound teaching is being done, and the results are very satisfartory. Staff and distribution.—Mr Stevenson, headmaster, with trainee, Standards VII, & VI.; Mr Nicoll, second assistant! master. Standard V.; Mr Bagley, assistant master, Mr Neilson, pupil teacher, Standards IV. and TIT.; Miss Smith, assistant mistress, Standard II.; Miss Beid, mistress. Miss Murphy, pupil teacher (Ist year), Miss Gregory, pupil teacher (4th year), Standard I. and Prep. 11. and I. 8011, 357; present, 337; promoted, .227. REMARKS. Standard I.—This is a well taught and well advanced class. The children show commendable intelligence, and their training is very satisfactory. Standard lI.—A good class, showing careful training and satisfactory progress, except perhaps in the arithmetical progress. Tile children should he trained to see that every question in arithmetic involves a statement, and a request based upon the statement. The reasoning faculties should be fostered. The books are well and carefully done. Standards 111. and VI. —The classes are under one control. The tone is good, and the progress satisfactory as a whole. .Weakness appeared in the arithmetic, and the plan suggested for Standard TL should be carefully followed. Short cuts should be avoided until the reaspning faculties haye been trained. Much of the class work showed careful preparation—the writing especially being goodStandard V.—This is a class of mncb promise, and the results, except in arithmetic, are good. The arithmetic has been tanght, hut the reasoning powers of the pupils are not sufficiently trained. My. remarks about Standard IT. apply to Standard V., and attention should be paid to this aspect of training. The discipline is good, and the hooka examined show careful preparation. The extra work is of good quality, and the average results are satisfactory. Standard VI.—A large and attractiye class that has made good progress durthe year. The passes are numerous, and some of them strong. The finish of the work is not up to the standard of last year in composition and writing, but the information is good. The reading is intelligent and the arithmetic results, including mental, very fair. Drawing is excellently prepared, and the oral work showed good intelligence and capacity. Local government i» well, understood in social science, and as a whole th n class is a good one. The extra work done by the pupils is of excellent quality, and the school continues to maintain a commendable position among the schools of xuy district.

WOODLANDS EOAD. CLASS SUBJECTS. Geography—To be improved. Work on paper is wanted. Drawing—Good to excellent. Grammar —This subject should be taught by function and inflection. History—Very fair. Elementary science, object-lessons, <fec —Not taken; wood carving instead. Hesitation —Excellently prepared. I ‘ Handwork —Very good in Standards IV. and HI. ADDITIONAL SUBJECT*. Singing—Fairly good. Needlework —Exceedingly good. Drill and exercises—Vair fair. INBXBUCTION OF PEEPABATOET. The pupils are preparing well. The progress is good, and on the whole the children have made very fair progress. Staff and distribution. —Miss Olsen, mistress ; Master Eager, pupil teacher. 8011, 65; present, 60; promoted, 34. EEMABKB. The present mistress has been in charge since March 17th. The attendance under her is well maintained, and the progress as a whole is commendable. Traces of weakness appeared in writing in Standards IT, and 111., and the arithmetic in Standards IV. 111, and 11, is somewhat weak. The methods should be improved in this subject and attention paid to inductive teaching. Much mechanical preparation and the learning of a rnle are poor substitutes for inductive processes. The writing should be taken systematically and the copybooks to be used should be the same for the standards. The brush-work and wood-carving are well taught and these subjects compensate for some of the traces of weakness in the subjects named. Throughout the classes reading is very good and I was much pleased with the recitation and the other classwork. The behaviour of the pupils is very good. _______________