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THE NEW FEESCH REMEDY. THERAPION No. 1 THERAPION THERAPION
THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH.
KOWLOON BRITISH
SCHOOL
Important Speech by Hon. Mr. E. A. Irving..
SATURDAY, JANUARY
tuguese girls, very good; Kowloon frst sod cut. But, such a soboo! School, good, but brief.
must be a good, secondary school: Writing and Spelling-Chinese not merely a big school for Bittle boys, good; Chinese and Port children. It is is to be that it will
good; gusse girls,
Kowloon be so through the furrnightedness School, poor.
(and 'unselfishness of the parents, Composition Chinese boys.
who will got think of immediate godd; Chinese and Portuguesa
advantages by putting their childre
fair.
month. A Greek poet has written: Naught is the city, naught the shir done shali Empty of men when
dwell therein."
The Government can build your
Mrs. Irving, the wife of the girls, good; Kowloon School, ver into firms at salaries of 800 or 250 a Director of Education, presented
Chiese and English. the prizes and certificates won by
Thus, under this test, Kowloon the scholars of the Kowloon Bri tish School, yesterday afternoon. School fails to hold its own in The annual report was read by comparison, notably in hand writ- the Headmaster, Mr. G. F. Nighting in weighing these results, ingale, who was supported by the has to be remembered that the city and lay the timbers of your Han, Ar. Ed. Irving, Mrs Kowloon pupils are two or three hip, hat it is to you parents we Irving, Mr. N. Teesdale Mackin-years younger than the pupils must look for the citizens of the
(Registrar of Hongkong with whom they were compared; University), Mr. E. Ralphs and but, on the other hand, the Chi, city and the ship's crew.
Cheers for Mr. and Mrs. Irving, nese are taking the examination: M. Montargia.
thethe Headmaster and the School During the course of the pro-in a foreign language and ceedings, a number of items were Chinese concerned did not begin brought the proceedings to a close. well rendered by the pupils, in- cluding gymnastic exercizes, pianoforte solo by G. Band, a song by Doris Puncheon (accompanied by D. Goodman) and the school
tash
300g.
8
to learn English until they were 12 or 13 years of age and here to keep up their knowledge of Chi Dese while studying English. They work very hard indeed.
Headmaster's Report.
Mr. G. F. Nightingale (the Head-
master), in his annual report, said: At the commencement of the ; sear 19, there was such a great The second of the subjects increasein the number of children took was Mathematics. The re-attending this school that it was ults for Kowloon School are:-found necessary to divide the Very good, nil; good, 1 (arithmeschool into two sections, one, the tic 62 per cent); fair, 6; poor.Senior School, consisting of 10: bad, 19.
Classes 1-6, and the other, the These are miserable figures. Junior School. Classes 7, 8 and strong points As Virgil said to Dante, "Let us Kindergarten. These Junior
of
A Disastrous Impression. At the conclusion of the prize
Director distribution, the Education said: I I had only to congratulate the School oa its obvious
1 very easy not speak of them, but look and Classes, containing 60 pupils, were
&
Dass on."
I should have it task:
would
էր also needless one, for
these things
The Standard to be. Aimed AL you know or can see for your-
Please dy qet tuisunderstand m.. selves. I wish to address you for a few minutes on a point of con- are not Ending fault. The school siderable importance regarding has many inha rend dubultans; so nat No. 2 the School,-the objects and the nt of its own making. Di tue 2 No. 3 curriculum of the senior classes. whose marks I have been sea I feel that some explanation is ablering only s & are classed as red N12 Ficamo, dhe air Weaknes¡due to you of the exact meaning papas, dhe tek kan byen at the jof the successes which the child-|scinot less than two years. Some ren have obtained at the recent times, po, a bay wall wo home for University examinations. On the fare of them, they show that ther and dog all his work during But this I must say with school has progressed in the last twelve months. The passes for the the attest prophana. I do hope 1920 Parents will at age that the boys of gay who have passent time 1920 Semer Local ate bearing the fruits
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A 1919
Sad
pare:
Matriculation
3910
0
1
Senior Local
5
Junior Local
7
11
So far, so good. But lately heard a lady speak of the Senior Local Examination as if it was
that ...
transferred to Gun Club Hill School in February. The extra- ordinary growth of the School may
the better realised if we com-
pare the number of children, 60. who attended in October, 1919. with those, 135 in number on the two schools of the rolls
Kowloon is
in December, 1921. growing so fast, and there is such a great and continuous influx of residents. that before long this building will be unable to accom. modate the increasing number of children whose parents wish them to retaile their education here.
We require a much larger build-
of a secondary education' This deing with well-equipped and up-to-
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t.
not follow and entrent parents not their chalirem away from school when they Save passed the Senior honi bet to keep them on for at
all I wond org date class rooms. laboratories, take manual instruction reom, and last, but not least, a large playing- feld.
The maximum enrolment in the the hallmark of education east ather ear. The standar Senior School during the year was Hongkong, or, at any rate, as if it the School should aim at 4nald be
111, the average daily attendance was about the best result that Malation amination the Sentol were very good.
76. The discipline and tone of the Hongkong can produce. Such an
Matriculatio vatrination with Mr. Mould, Miss Parsons and I know, of good middle, Ms. Kew joined the staff and were impression, if it were widely held, would be nothing less than disasters.
[class scheute az Mene where hoge og given charge of classes 4. 5 and 6 Loddoorg impurity take the schu respectively. The Results Analysed.
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Equipment-The School is now I therefore propose to analyse kasing vertit rate at the age of 17, the results obtained by the pupils) and they do not think their glaw well equipped in the matter of at this examination. The Union, is completed then. They to physical and, ordinary school ap- versity Matriculation Examina- Another year and try to get diparatus. We have splendid relief tion differs from the Senior Local inets in subjects in which they maps, some of which may be seen Examination in that, for the
got a pass before, and then fran on the walls of this hall; object specimens and charts, pass both English and in
historical We should natural history and Oxford or Cambridge Mathematics, and this is no: necessary in the Senior Local ke ar Matriculation with bon-charts, apparatus for the teaching
other Examination, which is, therefore,eurs our standard for a boy to pass of geography, meteorological in- material an altogether inferior examina- he wishes to compete with the struments and
necessary for the educational de- tion. Lumping the results of the product of Home rublic schools, or Matriculation and Senior and even the rst ontpap of local schools velopment of the children. Junior Locals together, I have like Queen's College or the Diocesan taken the marks gained in each Boys' School. Beth these schools get the subject of the Toups, English great many distinctions in and Mathematics, and arranged Iunier examination and they them in the following wayately get honours. Where the mark is 80 per cent.
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The Hon. Director of Education," added to the School library. The
Mr. Irving, and the Inspector of St. George's Society's prize for the Schcols. Mr. Ralph, visited the best essay on "St. George and School many times during the year. Merrie England" was awarded
Dock Company's Generosity. We owe a great debt of grati- tude to the Hongkong and Wham- poa Dock Company, who enabled or over I have called "very It is now more than 20 years Bzo
us to form manual instruction good"; 60 per cent. and over,
Classes by a generous gift of five "good"; 40 per cent. and over, when i'reams Head of the Educa "fair": 23 to 39 per cent, "poor" tion Department, and one of my carpenters" benches and a cabinet an inspection of the whole school under 33 per cent. (which is arst acts was to advocate the cree- failure), "bad." I have thas obtion of this building-erected by the containing eight complete sets of in October: "The general standard tools. These classes are under of health seems to me to be an tained the following resulta: generosity of Sir Robert Ho Tung-
The School waa visited also 'on; B. Davidson and A. Klüress. Our English: Very good; 17 papers; to the exclusive interests of the Bri- the direction of Mr. Mould, and usually good. In spite of the hot
good work is being done.
weather every child-except 3. 2 Our indebtedness to the Dock of whom had just been in hospita! several occasions by members of thanks are specially due to Mr. Walter Joseph for supplying the food, 24; fair, 25; poor, 8; bad, tish community. Year by year I
have watched the School's develop Campany is further increased by had increased in weight, the the Board of Education. These figures seem not unsatis ment. Best slow but latterly so rap their gift to the School of the smallest increase being 8 lbs, and Lady Stubbs, Commissioner of library with magazines and illas- factory; but, for the purposes of that last year it throw off a junior gymnastic apparatus you see here, the largest 15 lbs., since the school the Girl Guides, accompanied by trated and other papers.
I Miss Irving, came to the School The papils, both boys and girls, comparison I have just had an school of 50 pupils and yet is full. the boom, horse, ropes, etc., and was last examined in May. essay written by the Junior Local It is my dream that in the next few with the aid of this apparatus found no cases requiring medical and very kindly addressed the worked steadily for the Minister- class here and by a good school years we shall see it housed in new Miss Macdonald is enabled to attention, except a few cases of girls on the rules and principles ing Children's League Bazaar at Government House.. A Bazaar for Chinese bors and at a school buildings capable of holding perhaps carry on her work in physical in- defective teeth, of which the head of the Girl Guides. A Troop of and Fete, organised by Mr. David- Phone $15 for Chinese and Portuguese girls-200 papis. That is my dream. It struction, the result of which is master has a list."
Guides has been formed, under
son and other parents and friends The same essay
own school Miss Hope Irving, and soon of the School, were held, and con is not a project that has yet been already evident in the unright without preparation, in each case
Troop of
siderable sums of money
were and the results were marked by submitted to the consideration of carriage, the physical development song. the words of which are by hope
added to the Ministering Children's an independent judge. Here are de Government, it is not a project and the healthy appearance of the Mrs. Jackson and the music by Dr. Brownies.
thank vers Through the generosity of the League funds and the School I shall ever see fulfilled; but I hope pupils. I would like to quote here Fenton, whom we Subject Matter-Chinese boys, before making my final bow to this extracts from the report of the math indeed for the great inter- Hongkong ranch of St. George's
(Continued un Page 3 and 4. very good; Chinese and Per-audience that I shall at least see the Medical Officer of Health who held last they have taken in the school. Society, sevetal volumes have been!
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