I.
Religious
18. In making up the minimum time required under Article 16 instructions. (b) there may not be included any time devoted to religious
instruction.
Average attendance.
School Year.
370 meetings necessary;
unless
school closed by Medical Officer of Health.
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19. Average Attendance means the number formed by adding together the attendances for a period and dividing the sum by the number of times the school has met during the same period. The quotient is the average attendance ".
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20. * School Year means the year or other period in respect of which 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 370 times in the School Year in order to qualify for a Grant; but if the School Year exceeds or is less than 12 calendar months, the number of meetings required under this Article must be not less than in proportion.
22. If a school has been closed under the advice or with the approval of the Medical Officer of Health, or for any other unavoid- able cause to the satisfaction of the Director and the number of attendances has in consequence been less than 370, the Grant may nevertheless be paid in full.
CHAPTER IV.
Correspondents,
23. Every Grant School must have a Correspondent who shall be deemed to be a Manager of the School within the meaning of Section 2 of the Education Ordinance. He shall be responsible for the conduct of his school, for its maintenance 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 (i.) The Log-book must be stoutly bound and must be kept by the Head Teacher who is required to enter in it 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 visits of the Director or of the Correspondent; absence, illness, or failure of duty on the part of any member of the school Stuff; or any special circumstances affecting the school that may, for the sake of future reference or for any o'ber reason, deserve to be recorded. No reflections or opinions of a general character are to be entered in the Log-book.
Note (i.) 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 (iii) Any report made by the Director and any remarks made upon it by the Government must, as soon as communicated 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.
dents'
24. Correspondents are supplied with a form of Annual Return, Correspon which they are required to have ready for the Director immediately Returns. after the end of the School Year. Any other returns called for by the Director must be duly made.
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25. It is the duty of Correspondents to see that the Admission Registers and Attendance of pupils are carefully registered by or under the accounts. supervision of the Head Teacher, and periodically to verify them. and to keep or cause to be kept accurate accounts of income and expenditure. Where a school is combined with a boarding-house the accounts of the two sides should be kept separately.
notice of all
26. Notice must be sent to the Director by Correspondents, as Director to soon as is possible in each case, of every date upon which a school have timely will be closed, or its ordinary work suspended, during the year. closures. These dates should include the usual and any special holidays, and any closure on account of sickness.
Note. This Article is not intended to prevent a Correspondent from closing
a school temporarily in the event of a sudden emergency.
27. Correspondents must at once comply with any order of the Compliance Medical Officer of Health requiring them either to close the school or to exclude any pupils from attendance.
CHAPTER V.
Teaching Staff.
with order of Medical Officer of Health.
Teacher.
28. Every school must have a Head Teacher who shall be res- The Head ponsible for the general control and supervision of the instruction and discipline. Except in special circumstances approved by the Director, the Head Teacher must undertake no outside duties which occupy any part of the school hours.
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