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INFANT SCHOOL.
Useful work has been done during the year.
General.-Geography and Grammar will have to improve in the new year. Class V as a whole is not as good as it should be, but the poor results at the annual examination are due to the fact that the school year has been altered to bring this school into line with the other Government Schools and that the boys have not had a full year in this class.
OXFORD LOCAL EXAMINATION.
For the first time in the history of the School candidates from Victoria School entered for the Preliminary Oxford Local Examination in July last.
The results were very satisfactory indeed. 4 boys entered and all passed; 3 in the First Division and 1 in the second division.
No. 3.-Belilios Public School, English and Anglo-Chinese Side.
Staff Mrs. TUTCHER, Miss BATEMAN, three Junior Assistants and 1 Needlework Teacher.
Discipline and Organization.-Discipline. Good on the whole. Girls however still persist in not speaking up especially so in the Anglo-Chinese Division where some pupils absolutely declined to give audible answers. Matters improved somewhat when it came to recitation possibly as prizes are offered by the Belilios Trust No. II for the best recitations. The refusal to take my advice and speak up was so marked however that I decided not to apply to the Trustees for any prizes for elocution this year and hope that pupils will bear in mind that these prizes will not be awarded until they make some real effort to speak up, not only when reciting, but when answering any questions put to them. The discipline in Class VIIIB must improve. There was too much talking during my examination.
Organization.--The new arrangemet of classes indroduced in 1906 entails rather too much class work on the part of the headmistress at the expense of supervision, most of which is required in the Anglo-Chinese division. It also tends to throw the teaching of the largest classes on the youngest and most inexperienced teachers. It will therefore be necessary to modify the present arrangement of the classes to some extent in the new year.
Sanitation. Very satisfactory. The school building has been put in thorough repair and has been repainted and colourwashed throughout.
Floor Space.-Sufficient for 500 pupils.
Apparatus.-Very satisfactory.
A. THE ENGLISH DIVISION. CLASSES I & II (HII NO PUPILS) IV, VA, VIA, VIIA & VIII A.
Reading.-Very good except in VII A & VIII A the two lowest classes.
Colloquial. Very good in Classes I and II, good in IV and V A, very fair in VI A, very limited in VIIA and VIII A.
Dictation.-Good.
Composition. Good on the whole, but many of the essays in Classes I and II (on the subject of exercise) read more like hygiene papers. Each paragraph was also numbered. There should be no numbering, no firstly and secondly in an essay. The reproductions of stories in the lower classes were quite good. In some essays especially in IV and V the spelling was poor.
Grammar.-Practically none is taught. The parts of speech should be learnt and parsing should be done.
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