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Medical inspection.
Extra class-
room
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Externs! Cxamination.
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means Classes 1, 2 and 3. "Remove Classes" 11. "Upper Classes Classes 4 and 5. "Lower Classes means Classes 6, 7 and 8.. "Infant Classes" means Classes 9 and 10. These groups of Clusses may be designated the Higher, Remove, Lower, and Infant Departments, respectively.
12. Classes in which English subjects are studied are called English Classes. 13. Classes in which the Chinese written language is studied are called "Vernacular Classes". The Vernacular Classes of a School may be designated collectively the Vernacular Department.
Note. The Vernacular Classes are distinguished by the letter V preceding the word Class, eg., Eighth
Vernacular Class: V Clase 8.
14. The divisions of a Vernacular School are called Standards. The syllabus of a Standard represents a year's work,
Note The numbers of Standards are distinguished by Roman numerala, Standard I being the lowest.
15. The "Grant List" is a register, kept by the Director, of all schools in receipt of a Grant under the Code."
CHAPTER III.
ATTENDANCE AND SCHOOL MEETINGS.
16. "Attendance" for the purpose of ascertaining the average attendance of a school must be reckoned in accordance with the conditions of Articles 16 to 19. (a). No attendance of a pupil of less than 5 or more than 21 years of age may be reckoned without the consent in writing of the Director.
(6.) An attendance must in the case of a pupil in an Infant Class or Standard be of at least one hour and a half duration, and in the case of a pupil in any other Class or Standard of at least two hours duration.
(c) Not more than two attendances may be reckoned in respect
one pupil in any one day.
of
any
17. In making up the minimum time required under Article 16 (b) there may be included:-
(a.) interruptions of secular instruction by reason of arrangements
necessary for medical inspection;
(b.) any time occupied by visits paid during the school hours to places of educational value or interest, or by field work, or by rambles ; notice of the time and place must be sent to the Director and the circumstances entered in the Log Book;
(c.) any time occupied by a central examination attended by pupils with
the sanction of the Director;
(d) the necessary recreation period;
Note. The recreation period, in the case of an Infant Class or Standard, must be fifteen minutes, and in When the period of secular the case of a class or standard for older pupils, ten minutes. iustration inclusive of recreation is prolonged beyond one hour and a half in the case of infants, or two hours in the case of oliler pupils, more recreation may be given propor tionately.
(e) any time spent during the ordinary school term under arrangements and according to a Time Table approved by the Director at an open-air school, school camp, or other place selected with a view to an improvement of the health and physical condition of the pupils.
Note. The Director may at any time require the Correspondent of n School to furnish him with a special report by the School Medical Officer on the working and effect of any arrangements made under this Article.
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18. In making up the minimum time required under Article 16 (b) there not be included any time devoted to religious instruction.
may Religious
instruction.
19. "Average Attendance means the number formed by adding together Avenge the attendances for a period and dividing the sum by the number of times attendance. the school has met during the same period. The quotient is the "average attendance"
20. "School Year" means the year or other period in respect of which Seool Year. a Grant is paid or payable under the Code.
Note. In the case of a new school, the School Year will begin on the day on which the school is placed on
the Grant List,
21. A school must have met 400 times in the School Year in order to qualify 10 meetings for a Grant; but if the School Year exceeds or is less than 12 calendar months, necessary; the number of meetings required under this Article must be not less than in proportion.
school closed
22. If a school has been closed under the advice or with the approval of the unless Medical Officer of Health, or for any other unavoidable cause to the satisfaction of by Medical the Director and the number of attendances has in consequence been less than 100, Officer by the Grant may nevertheless be paid in full,
CHAPTER IV.
CORRESPONDENTS.
23. Every Grant School must have a l'orrespondent who shall be deemed to
be a Manager of the School within the meaning of Section 2 of the Education Ordinance. He shall be respousible for the conduct of his school, for its main- tenance in efficiency, and for the provision of all needful furniture, books and apparatus, and in particular of:-
(a.) Suitable Registers;
(b.) A Diary or Log-book;
Note (1) The Log-book must be stoutly bound and must be kept by the Head Teacher who is required to enter in from time to time such events as the introduction of new books, apparatus, or courses of instruction; any plan of lessons approved by the Director: the visita of the Director or of the Correspon- dent; absence, illoess, or failure of duty on the part of any member of the school Staff; or any special circumstances affecting the school that way. for the sake of future reference or for any other reason, deserve to be recorded. No refections or opinions of a general character are to be entered in the Log-book.
Note (1) Where the Head Teacher is not English, Correspondents are required themselves to record their visits in the Log-book, and to note therein the Attendance at the time of their visits.
Note (i.) Any report rande by the Director and any remarks made upon it by the Govern
ment must, as soon As coramunicated to the Correspondent, be copied verbatim into the Log-book and signed by him.
(c) A Cash-book;
(d.) The Code and Revised Instructions for each year.
Health.
24. Correspondents are supplied with a form of Annual Return, which they Correspon
are required to have ready for the Director immediately after the end of the School enta Year. Any other returns called for by the Director must be duly made.
Returbs.
accounts.
25. It is the duty of Correspondents to see that the Admission and Attend- Registers ance of pupils are carefully registered by or under the supervision of the Head and Teacher, and periodically to verify them, and to keep or cause to be kept accurate accounts of income and expenditure,
have timely
26. Notice must be sent to the Director by Correspondents, as soon as is Director to possible in each case, of every date upon which a school will be closed, or its notice of al ordinary work suspended, during the year. These dates should include the usual closures.
any special holidays, and any closure on account of sickness.
and
Note.This Article is not intended to prevent a Correspondent from closing a school temporarily in the
event of a sudden emergency.
with order
27. Correspondents must at once comply with any order of the Medical Compliance Officer of Health requiring them either to close the school or to exclude any of Medical pupils from attendance.
Officer of Health.
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