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Kowloon Junior School.-The maximum enrolment was 107 and the average attendance 82. Miss M. Cooper, B.A, was Head Mistress throughout the year. This school presented pupils for the Royal Drawing Society Preparatory Examination, and the results were excellent. All 13 entrants passed, 12 with honours, while one pupil was awarded a special prize and an illustration by another pupil was included in the Society's Annual publication of reproductions.
23 scholars from the school were promoted to the Central British School.
Victoria British School.-The maximum enrolment was 41 and the average attendance 30. These numbers were affected by a slight epidemic of small pox at the beginning of the year. The work and discipline were good.
Instruction in drill and games is given by a visiting Gymnastic Mistress, and the Hall has been equipped with regulation "wall-bars".
The maximum enrolment at the Peak School was 65 and the average attendance 49. The discipline and progress of the pupils were very satifactory.
The figures for Quarry Bay School were almost identical with those for Victoria British School-maximum enrolment 42, and average attendance 31. A high standard of work in all subjects has been maintained, and, as in the other British Schools, the Examinations of the Royal Drawing Society are taken.
The school Garden continues to prosper, and the First Annual School Sports were held informally in February, 1930.
2.-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS--GAMES.
Owing to the continued shortage of suitable playing fields, the most popular games are those which can be successfully organised on school premises, viz. volley-ball, basket-ball and ping-pong. Football, however, is played by the pupils of most schools on public Recreation Grounds, several schools holding Inter-Class Competitions.
By courtesy of the Honourable Director of Public Works 4 schools, namely, King's College. Ellis Kadoorie School, Wantsai School and the Indian School, were granted free use of the Government Bathing Beaches during the summer months.
King's College, in addition, organised Aquatic Sports in its own swimming pond.
Lawn Tennis is played by the two senior Anglo-Chinese Schools-Queen's College on its own ground at Causeway Bay. and King's College in the school play-ground.
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Queen's College, Wantsai School, Yaumati School, Gap Road School, the Indian School, Cheung Chau School and Un Long School all held Athletic Sports, as also did the Central British School and Quarry Bay School-the latter for the first time. Full use of their grounds at King's Park was made by both present and past pupils of the Central British School. The games played were football, cricket, hockey and tennis.
Badminton has recently been introduced by Queen's College and Ellis Kadoorie School, played indoors in their respective school halls.
3. GRANT IN AID SCHOOLS.
The Grant in Aid Schools, statistics as to which will be found in Table IV were visited at least twice during the year, the annual Inspection being held as usual in October and November.
There were 4,300 pupils present at inspection.
Discipline can be reported as good in all schools.
The work done in these schools is efficient, in some schools very efficient,
Reading and Recitation of the Chinese pupils require more careful attention. Reading should be more deliberate to enable careful correction of errors in pronunciation.
Conversation in the lower forms is not what it should be. Easy dialogues should be introduced. We still found cases of Anglo-Chinese teachers using Chinese almost entirely as the medium of instruction in English lessons.
Heads of Schools should insist on explanations being made in English as much as possible. If not, the English, not only of the pupils but of the Masters, will suffer,
Written work, Drawing and Map Drawing were good throughout.
In the girls' schools Painting and Needlework are well taught.
We are pleased to see that Drill is now being taught in some of the girls' schools.
4. PRIVATE ENGLISH SCHOOLS,
Day Schools-At the end of the year there were 55 schools in existence as against 54 in the previous year. The total
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