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Average Attendance 97 (89 in 1922).
The Staff has been further greatly strengthened during the year. Two new class rooms were opened and others were approacų ing completion at the end of the year.
A new graded syllabus of work in all subjects was introduced and the percentage required for promotion was raised to 60. Ten pupils in Class 1 sat for the Annual Examination of whom 4 passed the Hongkong Matriculation and obtained Senior Local certificates. Two distinctions were gained in English and one in Drawing. Ten Junior Local candidates were successful and two distinctions were gained in English, two in Drawing and one in Arithmetic. In his Annual Report the Head Master notes a marked improvement in the results in Classes 3 to 6 and comments on the neatness of the written papers. Handwriting and drawing in particular have greatly improved.
Tiffins were provided at a small charge on the school premises.
In various ways the school has taken a big step forward this year which will be memorable in its history.
Victoria British School.-The Maximum Enrolment was 74 (83 in 1922).
The Average Attendance was 62 (52 in 1922).
50 children were examined in December of whom one failed: four were absent. In Class 4, which will not be continued in 1924, there were only two children both of whom did very well at the examination, especially in Arithmetic, Recitation and Drawing. Other specially good results were Recitation and Arithmetic in Classes 5 and 6: Drawing in 5 and 8: Reading in 6 and 7: Dictation in 6: History in 7 and 8: while the ten infants acquitted themselves very creditably in all subjects. Needlework was good throughout and the papers, in script writing, were worked very neatly indeed.
Kowloon Junior British School.-At the Annual Examination, excluding infants, 15 passed out of 23 in Classes 7 and 8-Class 7 was examined at the Central British School and did fairly well, all passing in Reading, Writing and Grammar: but Dictation was unsatisfactory. In Class 8 Recitation and Writing were good, but 5 children got less than 50%, of whom three only attended for part of the examination. All papers were neatly written.
Peak School. The Maximum Enrolment was 62 (70 in 1922).