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Hygiene.-The School was unfortunately too small to be able to enter a team. boys competed for the Advanced Course; one of whom took a good place, 13th.
No. 5.-Yaumati District School.
Staff-W. CURWEN and 5 Chinese Assistant Masters.
Discipline and Organization.-Very satisfactory.
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Sanitation.This will leave nothing to be desired now that at the beginning of the new year the school moves into the new building.
Floor Space. Sufficient for 120 boys.
Apparatus. A considerable improvement in the apparatus will be needed, to bring the *School into harmony with its new habitation.
English.-Colloquial. Very good. The system known as "action Grammar" has in Class VII been extended to include the past and future tenses of verbs. The masters of the 2 lowest Classes speak too fast and not distinctly enough. Reading.-Pronunciation in Class VI needs much attention. The reading matter is very well understood. The boys are very quick at giving synonyms. Writing.-Handwriting in the lower Classes is not very good. It is too small. Composition is excellent in Class V, and generally good.
Geography. The local maps are fairly well known in Classes VIII and VII. The senior Chinese Master has taught "Asia" to Class VI in a most skilful manner.
Arithmetic. The work done by the highest Classes at examination was disappointing. One or two boys in the top Class did very badly. In the junior Classes the results are on the contrary very good.
History.- -The interesting experiment of teaching General History which has been carried on in this School for two years will now, owing to the abolition of the senior Classes, have to be dropped. This is a pity, since owing to the immaturity of the students, no very definite conclusions can hitherto be drawn from the experience. It can only be said that the boys know as much about Marcus Aurelius or Hannibal, as they might other- wise have learned about Boadicea.
Hygiene. The subject has been taught with pains, and I regret that the School came out last in the Team examination. I have looked through the examination papers, but I have not found much to lead me to advise a change in the method of teaching the subject. Marks were largely and principally lost through not giving all or nearly all the information required, although what information was given, was on the whole given well. Thus the worst boy in one of his worst answers writes of the uses of cooking:-"Because food has millions of germs in it, and they make us have many diseases, so that we cook our food to destroy all gerins and we can escape from diseases.' This is not bad, so far as it goes; but the text-book gives several other reasons, which should have been mentioned also. Many boys having set out to condeinn ended by praising cotton padded clothing.
Chinese. Reading.-The subject matter was well understood.
Composition.-Fair throughout; but good in the highest Class.
No. S.-Wantsai District School.
Staff.-YOUNG HEE and 5 Chinese Assistant Masters.
Discipline and Organization.-The school, the only one of its kind East of the Clock Tower increases in numbers, and had an average attendance of 140, as against 115 in 1904. The Lower Grade Anglo-Chinese School at Tanglungchau which was opened at the begin- ning of the year has, therefore, done Wantsai School no harm. The discipline continues to be very good. My suggestions inade last year under the head of Organization have been attended to.
Sanitation. Satisfactory.