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Appendix B.

DETAILED REPORTS ON GRANT SCHOOLS.

NOTE.-The reports of the schools marked with an usterisk are upon the work of the year ending 30th June.

* No. 1.-St. Joseph's College.

Staff-BROTHER SYLVESTER (Director) 11 Assistant Masters and 1 Chinese Assistant

Teacher.

Discipline and Organization.—Very good.

Sanitation.-Very satisfactory.

Floor Space.-Sufficient for 522 pupils.

Apparatus.—A great deal of attention is given to the apparatus which is excellent. English-Colloquial.—Good throughout the School especially so in the highest standards where explanations of difficult passages were given with fluency and accuracy.

Reading.-Good. The pupils all understand the subject matter. Comopsition.-Distinctly good in the upper and fair in the lower stendards,

Handwriting.--Good throughout the school including the Chinese division,

The punctuation has improved.

Literature. Is taught in Standards VII and VI. Standard VII Senior did well in a Shakespeare paper and VII Junior very fairly well except in quoting where none of the boys seemed to feel the rythm of the lines. Standard VI were examined in the "Talisman" and did very well.

Grammar.- Very fair. However in some cases the questions had not been

carefully read and the answers were not to the point.

Geography.-Standard VII might have done better in the physical geography paper; one question was not answered correctly by any one. All the other standards except III did well. Standard III was poor.

History.-Standards VII, VI and IV did well. standard V was not so good. The subject matter was generally well known but the dates were very inaccurate in many cases.

Mathematics. Arithmetic. --For some unknown reason the working of sums was not

always shown and it was quite impossible to tell how the answers had been obtained. The work in Standard VII was rather disappointing. It was fair in the other standards except in III where it was distinctly good. The papers were very neat indeed and it is a pity the results fell short of last year's work.

Algebra.-VII Senior did some excellent work, VII Junior were not so good. VI and V did well, IV fairly well only. I am inclined to believe that in Class IV some boys copied the answers as out of 11 correct answers to a division sum only 1 shewed no mistake in the working, and 6 were so hopelessly wrong that it is impossible to come to any other conclusion.

Geometry.-Standard VII very good.

Geometrical Drawing.-VI very good. Some definitions were rather

weak.

Euclid.-Standard V good.

Book-keeping-Very good and very neat.