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conversation lessons we have received great help from two Parisian boys at present pupils of the school. It adds to the pleasure of the lesson for the English boys when they can hear the mistakes of the French and vice versa.
In Mathematics the standard is also much higher than it was. When I came, the senior boys had done the first five propositions of Euclid, no one knew them properly. Three of the boys are now learning propositions that were included in Euclid's 4th book, and have had to provide themselves with Parts 3 & 4 of the book they were practically beginning a year ago. I hope to send two of the boys in for Higher Mathematics in the Preliminary Oxford Local this coming July. The Algebra has also very much improved. Arithmetic is still rather weak, but I think, progressing favourably.
With regard to Examinations I entered five boys for the Oxford Local last July-one for the Junior, and four for the Preliminary. Of these one left the school before the examination and did not sit. two (Brett in the Junior, and Barrington in the Preliminary) passed and two failed.
I have introduced a school cap during the year-and all the boys wear it when the sun is not too powerful-and I think it is appreciated. Many of the girls, too, wear the school badge.
The school playing field has been surrounded by a bamboo fence which is fairly effective in keeping out the local vagabonds, though many thefts of bamboos from the fence have occurred.”
22. The British Schools have been visited quarterly by Government medical officers, and the pupils individually examined; and, where the children's health required attention, parents have been informed.
GIRLS SCHOOLS,
23. Belilios Public School for Girls.-This school is in an interesting stage of transition. An English school and a Vernacular school are being welded one into the other, so that English is gradually becoming a more important item in the curriculum. With this object in view an additional English Mistress was added to the staff-with very good results. Only those who know can realise how much tact and capacity is represented by the steady growth of this school which consists mainly of Chinese girls, from year to year, under the guidance of Mrs. Tutcher and the members of her staff.
The school is a self-contained institution training its own junior teaching staff. Its work in both sections of the school continues entirely satisfactory.
The Vernacular School is partly accommodated in rented premises in the Hollywood Road,