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the constitution of the Staff. Of the 8 Divisions, 4a is taught by an English Master; 4b, 4c, 5 and 6 are taught by Grade IV Masters; Class 7 by a Grade V Master; and Classes 5 and 6c by Pupil Teachers. The Staff is inferior to that of the Ellis Kadoorie School or the Saiyingpun School.
In consideration of the fact that the fees charged at Queen's College are $5 per mensem as against $3 at the District Schools, it would seem reasonable that the Staff of the College should always be at least equal to that at the District Schools.
Physical Drill-Physical Drill, based on the Course approved by the English Board of Education, has been taken up seriously in all Government Schools with the exception of Queen's College, where its adoption has been postponed from time to time on various grounds. With so many Pupil Teachers and Members of the Staff thoroughly capable of teaching the Subject, it is to be urgently hoped that exercises will commence in all Classes next Term.
General.-Attention has, as in previous years, been devoted to Sports and the "social side" of the College.
Normal Department.-The work of the Pupil Teachers, under the instruction of Mr. Tanner, the Normal Master, has been highly satisfactory. At their Annual Examination all the Pupil Teachers passed. There were three weak Candidates in the First Year and one in the Third Year; the Second Year results were specially good. Great attention is given to English Reading (prepared authors) and to Composition, which were very good in the Second and Third Years, but not so good in the First Year. Geography was weak throughout. In the important subjects of School Method and Practical Teaching all the Candidates did well, except two in the First Year.
The Normal Master takes great interest not only in the mental development but in the physical training of the Pupil Teachers. Physical Drill, as taught by Mr. Tanner, is very considerably above the standard attained in similar Institutions in England. The Pupil Teachers voluntarily attend also Chinese Boxing Classes, where the exercises indulged in seem to combine the best points of some of the European "Systems". On at least two Sundays in each month Mr. Tanner takes the men on walking picnics to historic or interesting spots on the Island or in the New Territories. During the summer months sea bathing is indulged in regularly, and all the Pupil Teachers are expert swimmers. It is hardly necessary to say that the best feeling exists among the men in the Normal Class, and that they work willingly and well.
Ellis Kadoorie School.-The Maximum Enrolment was 460 (453 in 1915).
The Minimum Enrolment was 355 (207 in 1915). Average Attendance was 388 (379 in 1915).
The cost of each unit in Average Attendance was $39 ($44.60 in 1915).
As was pointed out last year what is necessary in this School is the laying of sound educational foundations and it is towards this that the efforts of the Head Master and his Staff are mainly directed.
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the constitution of the Staff. Of the 8 Divisions, 4a is taught by an English Master; 43, 40, 5 and 6 are taught by Grade IV Masters; Class 7 by a Grade V Master; and Classes 5 and 6e by Pupil Teachers. The Staff is inferior to that of the Ellis Kadoorie School or the Saiyingpun School.
In consideration of the fact that the fees charged at Queen's College are $5 per mensem as against $3 at the District Schools, it would seem reasonable that the Staff of the College should always be at least equal to that at the District Schools.
Physical Drill-Physical Drill, based on the Course approved by the English Board of Education, has been taken up seriously in all Government Schools with the exception of Queen's College, where its adoption has been postponed from time to time on various grounds. With so many Pupil Teachers and Members of the Staff thoroughly capable of teaching the Subject, it is to be urgently hoped that exercises will commence in all Classes next Term.
General.-Attention has, as in previous years, been devoted to Sports and the "social side" of the College.
Normal Department.-The work of the Pupil Teachers, under the instruction of Mr. Tanner, the Normal Master, has been highly satisfactory. At their Annual Examination all the Pupil Teachers passed. There were three weak Candidates in the First Year and one in the Third Year; the Second Year results were specially good. Great attention is given to English Reading (prepared authors) and to Composition, which were very good in the Second and Third Years, but not so good in the First Year. Geography was weak throughout. In the important subjects of School Method and Practical Teaching all the Candidates did well, except two in the First Year.
The Normal Master takes great interest not only in the mental development but in the physical training of the Pupil Teachers. Physical Drill, as taught by Mr. Tanner, is very considerably above the standard attained in similar Institutions in England. The Pupil Teachers voluntarily attend also Chinese Boxing Classes, where the exercises indulged in seem to combine the best points of some of the European "Systems". On at least two Sundays in each month Mr. Tanner takes the men on walking picnics to historic or interest- ing spots on the Island or in the New Territories. During the summer months sea bathing is indulged in regularly, and all the Pupil Teachers are expert swimmers. It is hardly necessary to say that the best feeling exists among the men in the Normal Class, and that they work willingly and well.
Ellis Kadoorie School.-The Maximum Enrolment was 460 (453 in 1915).
The Minimum Enrolment was 355 (207 in 1915). Average Attendance was 388 (379 in 1915).
The cost of each unit in Average Attendance was $39 ($44.60 in 1915).
As was pointed out last year what is necessary in this School is the laying of sound educational foundations and it is towards this that the efforts of the Head Master and his Staff are mainly directed.
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