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The School has been placed under a Head Mistress, instead of a Head Master as heretofore.
The work of the School shows a steady improvement, except in Geography which is still weak. Spelling also needs attention. History is distinctly good.
Kowloon School. The Maximum Enrolment was 111 (122 in 1920).
The Average Attendance was 76 (86 in 1920).
In consequence of the increase in the number of children (155) attending the School early in the year, it was found necessary to divide the School into two sections, the Senior School, consisting of Classes 1-6 and the Junior School, Classes 7, 8 and Kindergarten. These Junior Classes, containing 60 pupils, were in February transferred to the Garrison School building, then unoccupied, by arrangement with the Military Authorities.
The School is now well staffed, a trained English Mistress and an English Master having been added to the Staff during the year, and is very liberally equipped in the matter of school apparatus. Manual training has been started, and by the generosity of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company a room has been fitted for "woodwork", and furnished with carpenter's benches and a cabinet containing complete sets of tools. Good work is being done. The Dock Company has further helped the school by the gift of a complete set of gymnastic apparatus. Physical education is thus carried on under the best conditions.
The result is already apparent in the upright carriage and healthy appearance of the pupils. An extract from the Medical Officer who inspected the School in October may be given here:- "The general standard of health seems to me to be unusually good. In spite of the hot weather every child except 3 (2 of whom had just been in hospital) had increased in weight, the smallest increase being 3 lbs and the largest 15 lbs, since the School was last examined in May."
All pupils in Class 1 were presented for the Matriculation or the Senior Local Examination (Hongkong University) and all in Class 2 for the Junior Local Examination. The results were: Matriculation, 2 entered and 1 passed (the first to matriculate direct from this School); Senior, 6 entered and 5 passed; Junior, 12 entered and 11 passed.
The work generally is good throughout the School, especially in Class 5, but greater attention to Mathematics is necessary.
Cookery has been successful and singing, now taught according to the best methods, is rapidly improving.
The study of Chinese continues to progress.