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Axminster,

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY MARCH II 1909.

Victoria School.

DAY OF PRIZEE:

THE INSPECTOR OF SCHOOL'S COMPLAINT.

The presentation of prizes at the Victoris British School (Caunaway Day) look place at moon to-day. Mr E. D. C. Wolfe, Inspector of Schools, prasided. There was a very fair at- tendance, but not so large as in previous years.

THE HEADMASTER'S REPORT.

Punctually at the appointed time (a000) the ceremony opened, the headmaster (Mr. W. H. Williams) reading his report, as follows:-

and also to the attention and supervision given to the school games by all the staff. The fair |competition in games of football and cricket bas: bad a fitting response in the keenness for promotion in class and I am particularly pleased to report that our best boys at play have been our best boys at work.

Curriculum, ball briefly outline the school curriculum for the information of those whose children are eligible for admission who may not be attending school. It may also give assurance to those already attending One afternoon, after school hours, an anxious |

mother called to report to me a serious chatter She was greatly perturbed because her little boy had come home the previous day and was

boy who was prox Acc. last year George Hoskins. The boy who won this prize: Inst year is putting his knowledge to some user Leaving school in June he wit entered for a 4 years' course of study la engineering at the California School of Mechanical Arts At Christmas he was promoted to 3rd years' work in. Mathematics allowing him extra time for other subjects.

Singing. All the scholars were gathered together for this exercise. Of the eight hymus offered five were entered wholly or in part all the tims and tuna ware good. The vigour

was prominent as the childred knew the the well and enjoyed singing them. At times the vigour was a little harsh though, attention had

Scriptura Teaching-The Rev. C. H. Hick ling very kindly and thoroughly examined the year's work in this subject and he reports as follows:

std V Std. VI should do literature instead Grammar:

Geography.Good. In std. the map should be more carefully studied. The filler of names of places on mapa supplied might have been done more neatly in the Upper Classen.

History-Tuis subject, like Geography, has improved and may be considered good some papers the handwriting was bad? Date might be more freely given. quite up to the usual high standard of effici. Mathematica-The mathematical work is

ancy.

Arithmetic. Very good, with the exception

of Standard III."

Algebra (Standards V and VI) very good

VI) very good.

Drawing (Freehand and Model) good. Bloging Good...

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Intimations

CONFIDENCE

said Lord Chatham, is a plant of slow

w growth." People believe in things that they see, and in a broad sense they are right. What is sometimes called blind faith is not faith at all. There must be reason and fact to form a foundation for trust In regard to a medicine or remedy, for example, people ask.

“Has it cured others? Have cases like mine. the truths of modern science, and, has it ́a bean relieved by it? Is it in harmony, with

record above suspicion ? If so, it is worthy of

confidence; and if I am over attacked by any

of the maladies for which it is commended 1 shall resort to it in full belief in its power to

WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION has won jis: high reputation among medical men, and, the people of all civilized countries. Musical Drill-(Lower School) very good.

They trust it for the same reason that they Hygiene.This subject, which is compulsory trust in the familiar laws of nature or in the in all Government Schools, appears to be some action of common things. This effective what neglected. The results of-the-annual-remedy is palatable us honey and contains all examination in Advanced Hygiene recently the nutritive and curative propenies of Pure instituted were disappointing. Ja ibe element. Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod ary course the school did poorly too.

Hivers, combined with the Compound Syrup of Infant School-The kindergarten work is Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt end very satisfactory. "

Wild Cherry. It quickly eradicates the The Cadet Corps.--With a single exception poisonous, disease-breeding scids and other all bays in forms IV, V,& VI are members of toxic matters from the system; regulates and Infants-10 this rection 16 were present, 3 the Cadet Corps, the numbers in which have promotes the normal action of the digans, being reces! comers. The age varied from 4 increased through the admission of English gives vigorous appetite and digestion, and is to to years In the Old Testament, stories boys from other schools. For ons week in infallible in Prostration-following Fevers, were effited from the Creation of Joseph, November all the cadets attended Camp at Anemia, Scratula, Influens, Wasting Diseases, lo the New Testament stories from the Stonecutters and were separately inspected by Throat and Lung Troubles, etc. Dr. W. A. Birth of Jesus to the Cleansing of the Tempis H.E. the Governor and the Corps Com Young, of Canada, says: "Your tasteless pro- had been taught. Selections of these were mandant, Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Chapparation of cod liver off has given we made and questions put, With one or two ex-man.* It was a week of streanour useful work, uniformly satisfactory results, my patients. captions all were alert and ready to answer A new rifle tange has been erected close to the having been of all ages." It is ʼn product of

school and provision made in the estimates for || the skill and science of to-day and is successful. the questions. The answers were mostly.com rect. The 33rd Psalm was repeated by individ instruction in rifle shooting, Victoria Day was after the old style modes of treatment have uals and by the whole. Most had a thorough a holiday and all the pupils' were given an been appealed to in vain. To try it is to trust grip of it. Foundation work being done here enjoyable picnic by H.E. the Governor. Our to it forever after. It cannot disappoint is good.

thanks are due to donors of prizes and to you and is effective from the first dose. Sold our games fund.

|by chemists everywhere..

Attendance.School opesed 202 times, an able to read two or three pages of his new been paid to light and shade; a litle more top: Geometrical Drawing, -(Standards V and help me." On these lines increase of 25 over 1957. The highest number book and to tell her all about it. I anticipating down is needed in parts.

Regarding the school as a whole the results of scholars registered at one time was 59, theed that she was of the opinion that the little highest average attendance was st in February chap was learning far too quickly for bis of the examination are thoroughly satisfactory. and the lowest grila September. The average age but to my astonishment she proceeded considering the time allotted, the ages of those alendar ce for the whole year was 43, 5 less then no ball-hearted manner to severely cento any one class and the frequent absences. In 1907. Seventy pupils were registered during sure my allowing young children to The Inspector of Schools examined the the year, making a total of 121 scholars enrolled to read before learning the alphabet by

heart from A to Z. It was only after long Lower School in all subjects and Upper. since the school opened exactly & years ago, suffering and an hour's patient explanation of School orally in reading and general know and in this period we have had an almost cons the kindergarten yalem for young children ledge as well as a written examination in plete change of pupils, only 4 enrolled on the

that I was able to assure her that our educh-chosen subjects, opening day being on our books still, The

tional methods were not fads of our own and varying attendance at this as well as at the

if she would trust me I would see to it that no British School in Kowloon je, i venture to say knavish tricks were played upon the miod of unique. Of the 70 pupils enrolled 25 were on the books the whole year, 12 for 9 months, a.for our principal aim is to provide for the frea the budding genius ip relation to our infants 6 months, 14 for 3 months and under. If can." clusions from these statistics are reliable the development of their bodies and minds and the formation of habits of attention. Games iovoly- average popil attends school for little more leg singing and breathing exercises are given than half the year. I must point out that these daily. The hands and fingers are given free standing.gures, refer to the average attend

occupation. A child's inquisitiveness is put to | ance for the school and do not reflect upon the good use. As the ages, even in the lower regularity of those kept on the books.

icfact class, vary from 4 to 10 years of age, the summer months, May to September, the these excercises are supplemented in due course regularity fell off 25%; in the cooler months November to April, the regularity reached the by shorter attractive lessons in speaking, recit atisfactory figure of 88% of the possible. lain, beginning to draw, to write, observe and the Upper School paracularly the regularity sing suitable action songs, was distinctly, creditable and absences for flimsy reasons are now happily negligibly few, „Altogether. 14 boys entered the Upper School in the course of the year; 3 of these left the Colony the firti term, 3 obtained employment with local firms and 2 became apprenticed engineers,

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In forms II, III, IV, all the subjects of an elementary grounding are taught in a manner suitable to the ago and capacity of the several classes, and although each teacher has to take at least two classe simultaneously this draw back is minimised where the numbers are so small that it is possible to give individual, at

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These returns show how difficult it is to obtention. The forms-and-V-are-organised-real varicly as to sendinesy and clearness of

tain continuity in the programme of studies and the difficulty which the Jospectorf Schools has to at the end of the year when he can

antife only 25% of the work dose. The hull yenly examination which he has prescribed for July each year should serve to give a better

as an Upper School under conditions that allow development of the work of the Lower School and the introduction of subjects of a practical Character bearing on the occupation of the scholars. After two years, whether he leaves school ornn', a boy should be able wi hadvant

Lower School-In this section it were pre sent, the ages ranging from 8 to 12. The ex amisation comprised stories from Geaesis and the Life of Moses throughout, also the life of Jesus as written by St. Matthew. There was

answer but the average was very good. "A fow questions beyond the actual text showed that some of the scholars had taken a considerable interest in the subject. The neat and can plete forms of answers were very pleating showing.care had been taken for mental, peat.

THE PRIZE LIST. The prizes were then distributed. Following were the

the successful pupils

Lower School (Infants)..*

Class 1-Dorothy Morris, Ronald McEwen Class 11-Trevor Wilke, Lancelot, Brett,

Harold Wilks.

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Form I-Claude Frerichs, Claude Robertson,

Victor Gibson, Douglas Gibson, Ada Dickson.

·Form II-Jack Breit.

Form I-Bessie Brett, Rose Mitchell,

indication of the year's work: A moving age to himer to attend the commercial orders. The Jeo Commandments were repeated Oscar Barrington,

Europein population furnishes the main reason "for this vacillating attendance. Like birds of passageparents come and go with the change of

seasons; they move from East Point to West Point or to Kowloon, and arrange for a transfer of their children to the nearest school. We had a case where a boy! was ad mitted, left, and readmitted 3 times in the one

year.

engineering Coursas at Queen's College Even iog Classes.

The Year's Work-In addition to a period. ical-inspection of each class the ball-yer rly examination-in-the-Thres Re-was.conducted by me in July and the corrected papers and reports submitted to the Inspector of School. The whole school was examined again in Da

cember.

Expenditure-Salaries and other charges (ip÷Lower School -lo authmetic the results

though some of the scholars were rather un- certain and the order was incorrect. Psalms 33rd and 145h (in part) Proverbs I (in part) and the Beatitudes were also repeated success fally. The work which has been done in this class is evilently appreciated by the members and the result is very good.

Form IV-Top Boy-Ernest Breit. Top Girl-Jessie Stokes, General Progress-Alan Morris: Scripture-Alex. Robertson, Geography

Norman Robertson. Attendance - John Grimshaw, Drawing-Leslie Wilks,

`Form V-English-Jenia McNeill,

Upper-School

From V-English, and Geometry-Ivan Gibson.

From-VI-Dux of the School Geo. Hos

cidentals, books, furniture) absorbed $7,765.39, were.grod, 90% passing, and mental arithmetic Apoaties. Many scholars had lefa during the kins..Special Priza Mathematics-Geo, Ros

Feo produced $1,31: ($128 less than 1907), The nett cost of the maintenance being $5,454 19 is equivalent to the exceedingly high figure of 5194 as the yearly cost to the Hong kong Government of f scholar in average at- tendance. Two scales of fees are charged and in the future it may be found necessary to impose the bigher charge not only on the Upper School boys but also upon the large sumber of scholars whose casual attendance deprives the school; of sufficient revenus to meet the cost of keeping a qualified staff of assistant teachers.

mirked weak the previous year had received closer attention and calculations were made in dollars and cents as well as in shillings and pente Dictation and hand-writing. were not so good, 70% representing the efficiency, Composition improved to 75% and I was pleased to find that young children in form II even could intelligently reproduce in writing a simple narrativerend to them, Drawing with ruler and free-hand were satisfactory. In the case of s children who failed in most subjects, both of them bad been away on holiday at home for gmonib Staff Mrs. Wilkinson resigned on leaving previous. To geography the teachers have care. the Colony in May, Mis. Morris was promoted fully brought home the subject by reference bead-mistress, Miss A. C. Ruiter promoted to actual surroundings by taking walks and 2nd mistress and Miss D. Barlington was ap. the use of a geography garden for illustrating pointed 3rd mistress Class work redistributed physical features. The subject appealed to on the 1st Jure, Mrs. Morris taking the kinder the scholars' interest and to this I attach more garten classes, Miss Banisgloo and Miss importance than the, acquisition of text book Rutter taking Forms I, III, and IV and facis learos by heart. Form I showed a very Forms V and VI were taken by the Head.ustful knowledge of the geography of Hong master. For special subjects like Physical kong. Drill, Singing, Drawing, Scripture and Hygiene two or more classes were grouped together."

and: Upper School-More attention was. paid to ward-building and spelling. The boys admitted from the Lower Schoo! wrote better composition,comparatively speaking, than those in ferm. VI. Only 2 boys showed originality and power to think oui subjects for themselves. In connection with the League of the Empire, letters were exchanged with pupils in schools at home. One batch of letters from a school in-Liverpool revealed astonishing ignorance of culife in the Colonies. Two letters gavo a

Upper School. The range of lessons cover. ed Samuel 1, St. Luke, Chap. IV to XXIV and the first fifteen chapters of the Acts of the

year and some were away ill, leaving only one present for the xamination. This boyanswered all the witten questions well. There was a tendency to generalise where particulars were needed. At the supplementary viva voce ex• amination it became evident that these were all known although in some cases they were pot written. A half-yearly examination had been conducted by the Headmaster when most were present. A perusal of this answeri showed a high average knowledge of the lessons,

THE INSPECTOR'S SPEECH,

The Inspector of Schools then addressed the gathering at some length. He referred to the satisfactory report of the beadmaster, the disci pline, which he characterized as "very good, the organisation, and the average attendance On the latter subject he had reason to com. plain. It was the British people in Hongkong, he said, who politioned the Government for the establishment of schools for their children,, and it was in answer to that appeal that the Kowloon and Victoria British Schools were es- tablished, yet these schools were not patronized by the British parents in the Colony. If the schools were patronized the school' authorifier would be out of the woods," and ratepayers would not he so heavily taxed. Everything was dana to serve the purpose for which they,

were started,

THE PROGRAMME.

A short programms of music then followed,

["and which was much enjoyed by those present.

The credit is due to Mrs. Merris, and her able- assistants-Miss Rutter and Miss Barrington for the success of the musical side of the ceremony.

School Premises.-The proposed improve ments referred to in the Inspector's last report bave all been carried out. An additional storey has been added to the Headminster's quarters and many improvements have been added to the outbuildings and the drainage. The South and South-East windows were blown in by the July typhoon and did considerable.damage to our furniture and wall picturis. The Public Works Department however quickly effected very careful, account of the games of cricket in which the "tots" greatly excelled themselves, and football, gave sketches of a bat and with the necessary repairs. The swamp in front the hope that such games might interest their of the school has been reclaimed and little cousin suggested that we might intro; converted into $ large and useful play-duce these forms of sport. In grammar the ground. Thus favourably situated, and near the ram terminus from East and West and construction of sentences and the right use of with every precaution taken by the Public different parts of speech were well done bat analysis of sentences was decidedly weak. Werks Department to ensure sanitary sur Geography and Itistory, which were reported as roundings, I have no hesitation in reporting disappointing, in 1957, recélve more attention. that this site is eminently suited for a school of By means of lantern views, numerous illustrat they type. And yet parents are unreasonable. ed readers and lessons on the geography and A case in point: a child was absent 7 whole history of the British Empire (in particular the months in addition to the usual holidays... The week before Victoria Day) the general know child returned just before our annual exmipa-ledge was improved. The lospector of Schools tion and after a day or two returned home com-

eet a searching a hours' paper in December plaining of a beadache, dus no doubt to unaccus covering the physical and commercial geo- tomed strain of school work, the inevitable.graphy of Europe, Asia, Alics and North and sequel of the examination system. Next day South & marica—-~- the child was withdrawn, the mother writing that she much regretted having to take this step as the school district, was no doubt un healthy.

INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLY REPORT, Staff-W. H. Williams, F.C.5., F.R.G.S., Mrs. Morris, Miss Rutter, Miss Barrington.

Discipline and Organisation-The discipline. is very good. The organisation in sasiainctory, I past years the Upper Standards have suffered through the multiplication of subjects. These have now been reduced with vary salin. factory results.

Sanitation-Very satisfactory. Floor Space-Sufficient for 122 pupils. Apparatus-Very Satisfactory. Reading. Good. Handwriting-Good in the lower side. More attention should be paid to this subject in the Upper School.

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Mathematics-Algebra and Geometry were taken by Form V, with trigonometry added for Form V1. Four boys to VI took mechanics at Queen's College Evening Clastes. At the The general health of the scholars appeared annual examination Form V was set Std zatisfactory, - Owing to the prevalence of a VI paper and VI worked a Sid. VII, Ond disease of the eyes-trachoma-regulations failed; the rest aggregated 75 per cent. in were issued by the Medical Officer of Health Algebra and 83 per cent ja Geometry requiring children to be periodically examined arithmetic the examination results gave: 71 per and reported. This has been done regularly cent, for both forms. Ons bay in form V took the Upper School until to passos in ortho sinca March with, I believe, good results.

graphy, a VI paper in addition and obtained to per Discipline-The general conduct and jone cent. One boy in VI chained a maximum

Dictation-Weak on the whole. The spel ling is not what it should be, though it has improved. No bay should be admitted to

Composition.--Good. The reporduction of amongst the scholars has been satisfactory on the VI paper and 72 per cent on the VII stories is well done. In Std. VI (the top In four years I have had to record only 14 paper. Through the kindness of Mr. D. class boys should be able to write at greater cases of corporal punishment. This healthy Tempiston the special prize for the boy length on the theme set,

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Athletics.

Best batting and bowling-(Sesions)-Geo. Boskins.

Best balting-Juniors)~L, Wilks. Beit bowling~(Junior) – E. Brett.

Cadel Sports. Quarter-mile-1st O. Masso; and Geo, Hos.

kins.

100 yards-1st E. Little; and A. Goldenberg.

Shooting (Spoon Competitions.) Seniors O. Musso, N. Railton, E. Little. Juniors. Robertson, J. Grimshaw..

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Camp Muskatry Course,

rst Prize Cup. (Presented) O. Musso 89%. Highest aggregate for the year, 1st Prize. Cup (Presented) Geo. Hoskins, Ralphs' Cup (to be won twice for possession).

Highest percentage for one year's shooting. minimum 300 rounds, not more than 15 rounde at one shoot-ist Name inscribed Geo. Hoskins,

Influence I attribute both to the discipline, and who stands highest in mathematics on Grammar, Good on the whole. The papers, courtesy learnt by the boys in the Cadet Corps the year's work, is awarded now for the set in forms V & VI were very easy. The with its effect upon the rest of the children third time. The prias falls this year to the parsing should be done in greater detail la !

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