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Annexe D.
REPORT ON THE MILITARY EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS, HONGKONG,
By the Inspector of Educational Training, China, Straits Settlements, and Ceylon Commands.
According to the most recent returns the number of children on the books of the Garrison Schools, Garden Road, was 140, a decrease of 5 on the corresponding numbers at the date of my last report. The average attendance has, however, risen to 95 per cent. The schools have been conducted with zeal and efficiency and the results of the last inspection reflected credit on the teaching staff. At the examination for entrance to the Royal Naval Dockyard the first two places were taken by boys from the Garrison School. Another boy was among the successful candidates at the Junior Local Examination of the University of Hongkong.
A War Office decision that "soldier-assistants should no longer be employed in children's schools" created a temporary difficulty with regard to the staffing of the schools but this was surmounted by the transfer of a trained teacher from the Infants' to the Elder Children's School, and the appointment of an additional pupil teacher to the former school. In the course of these rearrangements it became necessary to close a small Detachment School at Lyemun. The military children from that station now attend the Victoria British School.
Additional sports gear has been obtained during the year and many successes have been gained at various athletic competitions. The elder children have derived much benefit from their active association with the Murray Troop of Boy Scouts (under Mr. A. White as Scout Master), the Wolf Cubs (under Sergeant Major Williams, R. G. A.), and the Murray Troop of Girl Guides (under Miss Kirkpatrick). Great interest was shown in the varied activities of these organisations and awards were gained in swimming and in other forms of scout-craft.
The new system of adult education to which reference was made in my last report has been extended and regulations have now come into force which raise very considerably the standard of education required for the various army certificates of education, the standard of the papers set for the First Class and Special Examinations having been defined by the Army Council as equivalent to the Matriculation standard of a recognised University.
The arrangements by which selected military students were given financial assistance to enable them to attend classes at the Hongkong Technical Institute are still in operation but the grant from which the expenses incurred were defrayed has been seriously
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Annexe D.
REPORT ON THE MILITARY EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS, HONGKONG,
By the Inspector of Educational Training, China, Straits Settlements, and Ceylon Commands.
According to the most recent returns the number of children on the books of the Garrison Schools, Garden Road, was 140, a decrease of 5 on the corresponding numbers at the date of my last report. The average attendance has, however, risen to 95 per cent. The schools have been conducted with zeal and efficiency and the results of the last inspection reflected credit on the teach- ing staff. At the examination for entrance to the Royal Naval Dockyard the first two places were taken by boys from the Garrison School. Another boy was among the successful candidates at the Junior Local Examination of the University of Hongkong.
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A War Office decision that "soldier-assistants longer be employed in children's schools created a temporary difficulty with regard to the staffing of the schools but this was surmounted by the transfer of a trained teacher from the Infants' to the Elder Children's School, and the appointment of an additional pupil teacher to the former school. In the course of these rearrangements it became necessarry to close a small Detachment School at Lyemun. The military children from that station now attend the Victoria British School.
Additional sports gear has been obtained during the year and many successes have been gained at various athletic competitions. The elder children have derived much benefit from their active association with the Murray Troop of Boy Scouts (under Mr. A. White as Scout Master), the Wolf Cubs (under Sergeant Major Williams, R. G. A.), and the Murray Troop of Girl Guides (under Miss Kirkpatrick). Great interest was shown in the varied activities of these organisations and awards were gained in swimming and in other forms of scout-craft.
The new system of adult education to which reference was made in my last report has been extended and regulations have now come into force which raise very considerably the standard of education required for the various army certificates of education, the standard of the papers set for the First Class and Special Examinations having been defined by the Army Council as equivalent to the Matriculation standard of a recognised University.
The arrangements by which selected military students were given financial assistance to enable them to attend classes at the Hongkong Technical Institute are still in operation but the grant from which the expenses incurred were defrayed has been seriously
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