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Algebra:-- A fair beginning has been made,
Hygiene. Besides the Government Course, one in physiology has been taken, sup- plemented by lessons in "First Aid.”
Drawing.-Is being taught with some success.
Singing. Simple singing in unison is taught.
Shorthand. The theory has been well taught. The Headmaster expects to work the Upper School up to a speed of not less than 60 words a minute by Easter next.
Kindergarten.-Good.
No. 3.-Belilios Public School, English and Anglo-Chinese Side.
Staff-Mrs. TuTCHER, Miss BATEMAN, and three Junior Assistant Teachers.
Discipline and Organization.-The nomenclature and arrangement of the Classes has been changed, in order to bring the school into line with the other Government Anglo-Chinese Schools of the Colony. The Upper School now consists of 3 Classes, the highest being Class I; and the Classes in the Lower School are subdivided into Divisions, the A and B Divisions being for pupils who speak English fluently, and the C and D Divisions for those who do not. It is not however intended to convey the idea that it has already been necessary to form all these Divisions in all the Classes of the Lower School.
Discipline is very good throughout the school. More Class-teaching is still necessary in the Lower School. Perhaps the methods of some of the Junior Assistant Mistresses require more supervision by the Headmistress.
Sanitation. Satisfactory.
Satisfactory. But the school needs repainting and colour washing.
Floor Space.-Sufficient for 500 pupils.
Apparatus.-Very satisfactory.
English. The syllabus in the Chinese Divisions of Classes in the Lower School is now approximately the same as that followed in the Government Anglo-Chinese Boys' Schools. Colloquial-Most of the pupils still appear to think that modesty compels them to speak in a whisper. The teachers are apt to fall in with this convention, and instruct each pupil, as it were privately, in turn.
The Belilios Trust II has offered prizes for the encouragement of elocution. Reading. Very good in the Upper School. Writing.-Very neat throughout the school. The compositious of the senior pupils were severely tested at midsummer in an examination for certain prizes, kindly offered by Mr. BELILIOS. The results were excellent.
The same may also be said of much of the work of the Chinese Girls in the Lower School. Class VI would probably have reproduced better a story told them if they had been more accustomed to replying and therefore to listening carefully to what is said to them.
Geography-Good.
History-Very good.
Arithmetic Mental-Good,
accurate.
Written.-The work is on the whole very neat and
The numbers of sums are occasionally omitted.
Needlework-Chinese embroidery is tastefully done. Plain sewing should not be
neglected.