AnnualReport-1927 — Page 445

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Annexe A.

REPORT BY THE INSPECTOR OF ENGLISH SCHOOLS.

GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.

(Table III)

Queen's College :-Head Master, Mr. A. H. Crook, M. A.

The Maximum Enrolment (including 192 from King's College) was 787 (537 in 1926).

The Average Attendance (including King's College) was 693 (452 in 1926).

There was a great demand for admission during the year, and nearly 500 applicants had to be turned away.

All pupils in Class 1 take the Matriculation or the Senior Local and all in Class 2 take the Junior Local Examination of the Hong Kong University.

Class 4 pupils take the "Annual Class 4 Examination” held by the Education Department; Queen's College presented 59 boys of whom 31, or 52.2 per cent passed.

The following remarks are extracted from the Head Master's Report,-

Owing to the requirements of the Military, King's College was taken over as a hospital and accordingly seven classes from that College, comprising 192 scholars, were taken in here, making a total on the roll of 787. The year's sojourn with us of these classes from King's College passed very peacefully and prosperously. They competed more or less successfully in our sports competitions and examinations. We welcomed this all the more because in these matters a little healthy rivalry is some times beneficial.

Another small innovation which took place this year was the attendance of two classes (Junior and Matriculation), for Mathematical subjects, of girl students from the Belilios Public School. This, too, was due to exigencies of Staff distribution. The system came as near to co-education as these systems generally do, and seemed to work well. The girl students were such models of assiduity and application that teachers were naturally anything but averse to taking them.