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only, have gone their usual course as in previous years, and do not call for any special remark.
it is necessary to advert briefly to those Government schools, outside the Central School, which dedly declined, the only way to remedy the existing state of attendances, as regards St. Joseph's
both English and Chinese. Among these schools, the Government school at Stanley was satisfactory, as the number of boys, learning English there, gradually dwindled down, through versday).
the lege, will be to abolish the Italian custom of giving a whole holiday every Wednesday (or
causes, till there were at the end of the year but 4 boys learning English in addition to Chinese 20. With the Roman Catholic schools I class also the Victoria Schools, as they are under the the others studying Chinese only. At the Shaukiwán Government school the state of affairs ronage of the Roman Catholic Mission, although these schools do not teach religion at all. This hardly better. In both of these villages the people appear to prefer a purely Chinese education tar point gives the Victoria Schools so far an advantage, as more time is given to secular instruction, please these people, the Government would have to appoint one Master to teach Chinese exclus cational power exercised by St. Joseph's College. On the other hand, the mixing of Portuguese teaching now given in both the English and Chinese languages by one Master in each place. the entire absence of religious teaching deprives, in my opinion, the Victoria Schools of the and another to teach English. But as the number of those who wish to learn English is small in Chinese boys, which is the systematic practice of the Victoria boys' school, appears to produce a two places, it is hardly to be expected that the Government should incur the large additional experthy emulation, of which St. Joseph's College deprives itself by the separation of Chinese from the Chinese teaching to be given in the Hakka dialect, others in the Punti and others in the Hamined, and most of those who were not examined were excluded on the ground of insufficient There is, in Shaukiwán, the further difficulty that some of the boat-people and villagers there rtuguese scholars. Out of 104 scholars on the roll of the Victoria Schools, only 46 could be dialect, whilst no teacher can be found able to teach in any two of these dialects. In the Anglo-Chi tendances. Some, however, bad been attending another Grant-in-Aid school or the Central School Government school at Yaumáti things were comparatively more satisfactory.
Out of 27 boys examined, number of boys studying English is very small.
But here also ing part of the year, and were excluded from the grant on that score. and Chinese, both of which subjects are equally appreciated by the villagers, gave good results and
At Wongnaichung the combined teaching of Engled in 1 subject each, but none failed entirely. There were also 19 girls examined and all passed. the scholars of the Victoria Schools are distributed over all the six standards of the Code, it Anglo-Chinese school appears to be in a satisfactory condition. The best schools of this class, bone mined very considerable effort on the part of the teachers to teach so many classes so efficiently. are the two Anglo-Chinese Government schools at Saiyingp'ún and Wántsai. At Saiyingp ́ún t is a native Master, educated at Howard University, Washington, U.S.A., teaching English, whilst the
21. The next Roman Catholic school which teaches English is St. Francis' girls school, which me last year for the first time under the Grant-in-Aid Scheme. Out of 15 girls presented for
is another Government school in the same building teaching only Chinese, so that those who wish to lamination, only 8 had the requisite number of attendances, and these 8 girls were examined only in
Chinese in addition to English, have an opportunity of doing so. But few, however, avail themse
of it, and the majority devote the whole of each day to learning here English only, having pure of this school is the fine needlework done by the pupils under the tuition of the Italian Sisters
e two lowest standards of the Code. One failed in 2 subjects, the others passed. A distinguishing Charity.
opportunities to keep up their Chinese knowledge. At the Wantsai Government school we have Masters, one an Indian, educated at the Government Central School, who teaches English, and a nat
Master teaching Chinese. Only very few of the boys in this school omit studying Chinese in addi 22. The remaining Roman Catholic schools which were under the Grant-in-Aid Scheme in 1881, to English. This school was in September 1881 attached to the Normal School, to give the study which give a European education, confine their teaching at present to the Portuguese language, viz., both the Sayingp'ún and the Wantsai schools exhibited good results, such indeed as can fairlylation of the Italian Sisters of Charity. In St. Francis' Portuguese School, which is a mixed school of the Normal School opportunity for practical exercises in the art of teaching. The examination St. Francis' Portuguese School and the Bridges Street Ragged Schools, all of which are under the
compared with the results of the corresponding classes in the Central School.
very young children and infants, a considerable number had to be excluded from examination owing with reference to the Central School, will be found collected in the tables accompanying this represented, 21 had to be excluded from examination,
17. As regards the Grant-in-Aid schools, the same details as those which I have given or infant schools, an impossibility. Again, on the score of insufficient attendances, out of 41 their extreme youth making a pass in the lowest standard of the Code, which makes no provision Of the 20 children who could be examined, 17
as the amount of grant earned in each case, in Table XIV, which exhibits the percentage of schick only 3 failed in 1 subject each, and 18 passed. The Bridges Street Ragged Schools presented, after who passed in each school, and in Table XV, which shews the percentage of passes obtained by excluding infants and those who had not the full number of attendances, 18 boys for examination, but viz., in Table XIII, showing the number of scholars who passed and failed in each standard asere placed in the first (lowest) standard, and 3 in the second. The result was, however, satisfactory,
I proceed to add some remarks regarding the working and results of these schools in 1881, tak subject each. Thus, out of 18 boys examined, only 7 boys passed. But the failure was manifestly and composition. But further details regarding these Grant-in-Aid schools having been called out of 18 boys examined, there were accordingly 9 boys who failed in 3 subjects each, and 2 failed in of these schools in reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar, geography, history, repetition, explanat most of them were clearly too young to be expected to pass even in the lowest Standard of the Code.
these schools in order according to the class of teaching given in each.
18. None of the Grant-in-Aid schools has been placed in that highest class of schools for which areunustauces being the same, the result was little different.
not caused by deficient teaching but by the extreme youth of the children. In the girls' school, the Grant-in-Aid Scheme has made provision in Rule No. 20, viz., Class V, it schools in which & Wurch cumstances bei of attendances, but most of the children were too young to be exported in med, Out of 38 girls on the roll, 31 had the education is given in any European language with Chinese in addition." School is almost the only school of this class in the Colony. But in Class IV of the Grant-in-only 11 passed. Both these schools are specially designed for the Portuguese poor, and are doing an The Government Centccordingly 18 failed in 2 subjects each, and 2 failed in 1 subject each. Out of 31 girls examined, Scheme, viz., for "schools in which a European education is given in any European language," excellent work as ragged schools, though the remarkable tidiness and cleanliness of schools and scholars
have Grant-in-Aid schools, 6 of which use the English language, and 3 use the Portuguese language the medium of education. Those of these schools which teach English, may be divided into Ro
lies the idea of any raggeduess.
19. As regards those Roman Catholic Schools which teach English, I have to refer in the and although it gives also Chinese teaching, in addition to English which is the language of the school,
As this school devotes its
Catholic and Protestant schools. Those which use the Portuguese language, in place of Engs Diocesan School and the so-called Hongkong Public School, and both of them are connected with the are exclusively Roman Catholic.
23. Only two Protestant institutions teach English under the Grant-in-Aid Scheme, viz., the
instance to St. Joseph's College, under the charge of the Christian Brothers. This institution it does not subunit its Chinese teaching to Government examination.
Church of England. The Diocesan Home and Orphanage is a boarding school for Eurasian children, divided into two distinct schools, one being specially for Chinese boys who, however, are taugan
I can therefore only treat it as English exclusively, and the other for Portuguese boys. Neither the Chinese nor the Portuguese English school, the code, which fact, in view of the small staff, indicates a very considerable As such it presented 32 boys for examination and these were distributed over all language is taught in this institution or even used by way of explanation. The result of the examinmount of work thrown on the teacher. Out of 31 boys examined, 7 failed in 1 subject each, 1 failed tion was, in both divisions, highly satisfactory, as, out of 140 boys examined, 11 failed in one subjen 2 subjects, and 28 boys passed. This is a very satisfactory result. each, and only 4 failed to pass. A reference, however, to Table XV, shewing the results gained fternoons to Chinese teaching, it is (apart from the Normal School) the only school in the Colony 1880 and 1881 by a comparison of the percentage of passes obtained in reading, dictation, arithmilar to the Central School in its combination of two languages taught in the school. On the other metic, grammar, geography and history, indicates that there was, in 1881, a slight falling off in hand, being a boarding school, the Diocesan School has the advantage over the Central School by results of teaching of the Chinese division, whilst there was a considerable improvement in the teach bringing the boys even out of school-hours under English influences, and affording them at all hours consideration that this highly satisfactory result was obtained by examining only those boys who had not submit its Chinese teaching to Government inspection, by placing it under Class V (for schools It must also be taken just of the day an opportunity of hearing English spoken out of school. The reason why this school does St. Joseph's College, only 140 had fulfilled this preliminary requirement of the Grant-in-Aid Scherethe risk of failures at the examination would be very considerably increased, whilst the value of a pass made up the requisite number of 200 daily attendances. Out of a total of 281 boys on the roll in which a European education is given with Chinese in addition), is probably this, that by so doing There were, therefore, excluded from examination and grant 141 boys, or one half of the whole number would be but slightly higher. In other words, the school would not be likely to earn as high a grant enrolled, the natural consequence of the fact that the school was taught only 203 days in the year by being placed under Class V, as it now earns whilst being placed under the lower Class IV. This
of the Portuguese division, as compared with the results of the year 1880.
which left too small a margin for detention by sickness or accidents. addressed to the Secretary of State, for a reduction of the number of 200 daily attendances, have bee As the repeated applications
of two languages as subjects of instruction. seems to me to indicate that the Code, as it stands at present, does not encourage the combination