hereby agree, on behalf of the managers of the said school, that, if the grant of money which shall become due to the said managers from the Committee of Council, under Article 40 of the Revised Code, after the next inspection, shall fall short of the amount of 21. 10 s., then the managers shall pay to Mr. Real such a sum as, if added to the amount of the said grant, would make up the said amount of 21 7. 10 s. Witness my hand, this twenty-fifth day of September 1863. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th instant, and its enclosure, and I am to acquaint you that they will be laid before the Committee of Council on Education. Rev. Sir, Mr. Lingen to Rev. R. Hobhouse. Committee of Council on Education, Council Office, Downing Street, London, S.W., 25 November 1863. I HAVE submitted your letter of the 11th instant, and its enclosure, to their Lordships, and I am directed by them to inform you that they have no remarks to make upon it, beyond such as are contained in the preceding correspondence. Rev. Reginald Hobhouse, St. Ive, Liskeard. I have, &c. (signed) R. R. W. Lingen. Rev. R. Hobhouse to the Secretary of the Committee of Council on Education. Sir, St. Ive Rectory, Liskeard, 13 November 1863. MAY I request to be informed whether pupil teachers apprenticed under the old Code (as the pupil teacher in this school was) will be examined according to the old Broad Sheet, at the next inspection, or according to that in the Revised Code? The Secretary to the Committee of Council on Education, &c., &c., &c. I am, &c. (signed) Regd. Hobhouse. Rev. Sir, Sir Francis Sandford to Rev. R. Hobhouse. Committee of Council on Education, Council Office, Downing Street, London, S.W., 14 November 1863. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th instant. Pupil teachers apprenticed under the Code of 1860 may pass their remaining examinations in accordance either with Art. 124, O.C.*, or with Art. 88, R.C.Ť Rev. R. Hobhouse. I have, &c. (signed) F. R. Sandford. No. 16. Rev. R. Hobhouse to the Secretary of the Committee of Council on Education. Sir, St. Ive Rectory, Liskeard, 4 March 1864. THIS school was inspected and examined on the 2d February, more than a month ago. Those who are pecuniarily interested in such inspection and examination are naturally very anxious to know the result, and to receive the money for which they have been working for a period beginning 14 months ago. It is a week since the Report was received relating to Pensilva School, which was inspected on the same day. I hope I may be pardoned for asking, in case any further delay is likely to take place, how soon the grant may be expected. The Secretary to the Committee of Council on Education, &c., &c., &c. I am, &c. (signed) Regd. Hobhouse. I HAVE the honour to inform you that the Committee of Council has had under consideration the Report of Her Majesty's Inspector upon this school, and that payment of the grant allowed, according to the following Schedule, will be made to you by a Post Office Order in the course of a few days. You are requested, unless there are special circumstances to explain, not to write any letter in reply to this present communication between the receipt of it and the arrival of the payment. The Post Office Order will be advised in the name of R. R. W. Lingen. To the Rev. R. Hobhouse, I have, &c. (signed) R. R. W. Lingen. SUMMARY of the Inspector's Report on the School, and Remarks to be made. "THIS School is under good discipline, without which there can be no real success in instruction. "Mr. Real is cheerful and bright in manner, and the children passed their examination with much accuracy." I am directed to request your attention to the enclosed supplementary rules, and especially to rule No. 9, which must next year be strictly complied with, otherwise the school will incur a forfeiture under Article 52a in the Revised Code. The children were grouped too low at the late examination, and my Lords have on that account had considerable hesitation in allowing an unreduced grant. Mr. Real will shortly receive his certificate. HAWKING, Grammar. (signed) Note.-The subject specified after the pupil teacher's name denotes that the result of the examination therein has been unsatisfactory, and that improvement will be looked for on the next occasion. R. R. W. L. (5) Note.-In the columns numbered (4), (5), and (6), a child passing in one subject is taken as the unit of calculation. Thus, a child passing in the three subjects gives the school the same grant as three children passing in one subject only, viz., three times 2 s. 8 d., or 8 8., and accordingly counts for three in the Total column. To judge of the success of the school, the number in column (3) may be compared with the several numbers under Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic; or three times the number in column (3) may be compared with the sum of the numbers under Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. For Payment. 8 at 6s. 6d. Enclosure in No. 17. SUPPLEMENTARY RULES. Rule 1. IN column II. of the Examination Schedule, the names of the qualified Scholars must be entered class by class, beginning with the lowest Scholar in the lowest class. Rule 2, The entries in column VII. must show where one class ends and another begins. The number denoting each Class is to be written only once; dots (" ") are to be put for each repetition of it, until the next higher class begins. There must be no intermixture of classes. Rule 3. The entries in column VIII b. will show where one standard ends and another begins. The number denoting each standard is to be written only once; dots (" ") are to be put for each repetition of it until the next higher standard begins. no intermixture of standards.* There must be Rule 4. The end of each standard in column VIII b. need not (although, of course, it may) coincide with the end of each class in column VII.* Compare the entries opposite to No. 6 who ends a class, but not a standard; No. 8 who ends a standard but not a class; No. 16 who ends both a class and a standard (this is preferable). Rule 5. The managers need not present all the scholars, who in each class are qualified for examination by number of attendances; but those whom they present at all must be presented in the classes to which the school registers prove them to belong, unless they fall as "Exceptions" under Rule 6. Rule 6. * In the following transcript of part of the Examination Schedule, Columns II., VII., and VIII b., are filled up, by way of example, according to Rules 2 and 3. Of course, the other columns must not, in practice, be left blank; and the actual numbers, presented in each class, will generally be much larger. Rule 6. The children who, for whatever reason, are presented under a lower standard than that which an examination of the School according to the above rules assigns to their class, must be entered last in the Schedule under the title of "Exceptions;" otherwise they will violate Rule 2 or 3. No child is to be placed among the "Exceptions" unless there is some special excuse for doing so, such as previous illness, &c. Prima facie, every child who is not fit to be examined in its own class has been wrongly placed there for instruction. Rule 7. The inspector is directed to refuse to examine Schools wherein Rule 2 or 3 is violated. He will in such cases proceed to inspect the School, and will report to the Committee of Council why he has left column IX. in the Examination Schedule blank. Rule 8. No grant will be paid to a School (not being one for Evening Scholars or Infants only) unless one class-i. e. all who are to be examined as members of one class according to Rule 5-be presented at least as high as Standard III. Rule 9. A deduction of at least one-tenth will be made from the grant to a School (not being one for Evening Scholars or Infants only) unless one class-i. e. all who are to be examined as members of one class, according to Rule 5-be presented above Standard III. Rule 10. Entries in column VI. have reference to Article 4 in the Revised Code,* and do not exclude children from the grant whose parents, though not supporting themselves by manual labour, yet are of the same means and social level as those who do so; such as shopkeepers who have only petty stocks, and employ no one but members of their own family. Cases of doubt are to be determined according to the answers to one or more of the following inquiries: a. Does A. B. work for himself, or for a master? If for himself, does he employ apprentices, or journeymen? This will apply to masons, carpenters, tailors, blacksmiths, mariners, fishermen, &c. The class denoted by Article 4 supports itself by its own manual labour only, and not by profit on the labour of others. b. Would it be unreasonable to expect him to pay 9 d. per week for the schooling of each of his children? This payment equals about 30 s. per annum, the estimated cost (Royal Commissioners' Report, page 345) of elementary instruction in a day school. c. Does he rank, and associate with, the working men, or with the tradesmen of the place. Simple Policemen, Coast-guard, and Dock and Railway Porters, may commonly be regarded as labouring men. But Petty Officers in those services, Excisemen, Pilots, and Clerks of various kinds, present more difficulty, and must be judged of according to the answers to the preceding inquiries. Every occupation which does not fall within the letter of Article 4, should be entered in column VI., but a well-marked line should be drawn under those entries which are thought to fall within the spirit of Article 4. See No. 12, in specimen Schedule, supra. Rule 11. To find the average number of Scholars in attendance at a School for any period, ADD TOGETHER the total number of attendances (see Rule 12) marked in the Class Reg sters within the period, and DIVIDE the sum BY the number of times which the School has been open within the same period; THE QUOTIENT is the average number in attendance. This calculation should be made first, for the whole School, and then, separately, for those Scholars only who do not fulfil Article 4. See Rule 10, supra, and note in pp. 2, 3, 4 of the Form IX. The divisor will be the same in both cases. Rule 12. Attendance at a morning or afternoon meeting may not be reckoned for any Scholar who has been under instruction less than two hours, nor attendance at an evening meeting for any scholar who has been under instruction less than one hour and a half (Article 41). The Class Registers, at each meeting of a School, must be marked, and finally closed, before the minimum time constituting an attendance begins. The inspector will inquire whether this rule has been observed. (Article 51, d.) Rule 13. No child's name should be kept on the Admission Register after a fortnight's continuous absence without inquiry from the parents whether the child has been withdrawn. The names of children withdrawn (whether they are so, the answer of their parents will decide) should be cancelled at once in the Registers, and not included in the returns of Age and Stay at School; but the attendances (if any) opposite to such names in the Class Registers, must be counted under Rule 11, supra, and the whole number of such names must be counted for the Return " Left in past year." * The object of the grant is to promote the Education of Children belonging to the Classes who support themselves by Manual Labour. |