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INFANT SCHOOL.
The work in this division has been satisfactory throughout the year.
No. 2.-Victoria British School.
Staff-W. H. WILLIAMS, F.R.G.S.. Mrs. WILKINSON and Mrs. L. MORRIS,
Discipline and Organization.-Discipline very good with the exception of Class III where it appeared somewhat lax. The organization is good; there are now no girls in the Upper School.
Sanitation.--The school is gradually improving is this respect. The drainage works in the immediate neighbourhood have been completed and it has now been decided to convert the bamboo plantation immediately below the school, which has been a dumping ground for all kinds of rubbish, into a playground. It will be filled in and levelled and turfed as funds allow. When the playground is completed there should be no further complaints about the insauitary state of the school. Two new rooms are being added to the Headmaster's quarters which up to the present have consisted of two rooms only.
Floor Space.--Sufficient for 182 pupils.
Apparatus.--Very satisfactory.
English.--Reading.--Good on the whole. One or two boys in the highest class might
read better.
Handwriting-Guad.
Recitation.—Better in the lower classes than in the apper ones. Dictation.-Fair. There is room for improvement.
Composition-Good on the whole.
Grammar. Fair to poor except Class VI which was good.
English Literature. This subject is only studied in the Upper School. The results were rather disappointing. One boy in Class VI did very well. Class V did badly as a whole.
Geography.-Fair in the lower school. work. Class V did badly and VI was poor. in this subject as compared with last year.
History. -Classes V and VI fair.
Class II did not offer enough for one year's I am at a loss to account for the poor results
Mathematics.Arithmetic.-Good in the lower school. Poor in Class V and fair in VI. The standard of the paper in the highest class is below the average in other schools of the same type in the Colony,
Algebra. Very fair.
Hygiene.-Class VI (only) good. Class V should be examined in this subject next year.
Drawing.—(Freehand and model.) Very fair.
Geometrical Drawing.-Very good.
Singing-Distinctly good especially the scales.
Musical Drill.- (Lower School.) Very good.
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