Appendix A.
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EDUCATION DEPARTMENT,
Hong Kong.
12th April, 1938.
CIRCULAR NO. 23.
Heads of Government and Grant English Schools
Information is required (a) as to what extent Music (including Singing), Art and Crafts and Handwork in any form, are now being taught in local schools, and (b) what staff is available for the extension of such teaching.
I should be obliged therefore if you would furnish me with replies to the following at your early convenience:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Music (including Singing).
a
Art
What form of this subject is being taught in your school? To what classes is such teaching given?
For how many hours weekly is such teaching given to each class?
(e.g. Chinese or English Drawing, Painting, Design etc.)
What form of this subject is being taught in your school? To what classes is such teaching given?
For how many hours weekly is such teaching given to each class?
Handwork and Crafts (e.g. modelling, book-binding, paperwork,
woodwork, needlework, etc.)
(a) What craft or what form of handwork is being taught in
your school?
(b) To what classes is such teaching given?
(c) For how many hours weekly is such teaching given to each
Staff
class?
(a) How many members of your staff are competent to teach
any form of (i) Music, (ii) Art, and (iii) Handwork and Crafts.
(b) Is the number of such teachers on your staff sufficient
to make it possible for some form of all these three subjects to be included in the curriculum for all classes?
(c) How many members of your staff are qualified to give
instruction to a local teachers' class in (i) Music or Singing, (ii) Art, and (iii) Handwork and Crafts.
C. G. SOLLIS,
for Director of Education.
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