FORM E.-SCHOOL INSTRUCTION. N.B.-Any subject not taught in the School to be left blank. in each Subject. Statistics of whole || Statistics of FIRST (or Highest) Class School. Statistics of LOWEST Class in each Names, and precise Quantity of Aggregate of Time per Week Number of Exercises per Week. Average Time given to each Number of Lessons per Week. Number of Scholars in the Class. Number of Exercises per Week. Number of Lessons per Week. Number of Scholars in the Class. Number of Exercises per Week. Preparation. Number of Lessons per Week. Extra learning each Subject. Number of Classes into which those Scholars are formed. Number of Scholars learning each Subject. N.B.-Practical and Experimental Mechanics, if taught, are to be included in Physics. Vegetable and Animal Physiology, if taught, are to be included in Natural History. FORM F.-WEEKLY TIME Table. I, being the Head Master or Mistress of the above-named School, hereby certify that the foregoing Statements are correct. No. 9. (Signed) PRIVATE SCHOOLS. (1.) LETTER from ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER to accompany QUESTIONS. SCHOOLS INQUIRY COMMISSION. IN accordance with the instructions which I have received from Her Majesty's Commissioners, I have the honour to enclose Schedules of inquiry relating to the School which is under your care. The Commissioners consider that they cannot hope to obtain satisfactory information on the large and important subject which they are required to investigate, without the ready co-operation of those engaged in conducting the Schools which are included in the terms of their Commission. They trust, therefore, that you will have the goodness to assist them in the prosecution of these inquiries by furnishing answers as complete as you can. The questions have been drawn in considerable detail partly with a view to the very various circumstances in which different Schools are placed, and partly in order to allow of definite and concise replies. It will not of course be necessary to answer such questions as are inapplicable to the special case of your own School. You will confer a favour on the Commissioners by transmitting your replies to me at your earliest convenience, and in any case not later than The Commissioners have instructed me to visit as many of the Private Schools within my district as the time at my disposal will allow. Should your School be one of those selected for a personal visit, I trust that it will not be inconvenient to you to receive me. Due notice will in that case be given of I have the honour to be, the date. Your obedient servant, Assistant Commissioner. N.B.-Duplicate copies of the questions are sent for your greater convenience; but it will of course suffice if one, when filled up, is returned to me. (2.) PARTICULARS of INQUIRY relating to the PRIVATE SCHOOL of for Boys at in the COUNTY of 1. Be so good as to fill up the accompanying forms (on separate sheet). 2. Give the name and description of the Master of the School. 3. State the duties and emoluments of the Assistant Masters or Teachers. CHARACTER of SCHOOL. 4. Is the School intended for, and actually used by, boarders or day scholars, or both? 5. From what distance do the day scholars come? 6. Do they (a) remain for the whole day? and if so where do they dine? or (b) return to their homes between the school hours? 7. Can you state generally the profession or occupation of the parents or next friends of the scholars, whether day scholars or boarders, attending the School? 8. On the average of the last five years, how many scholars have within one year of leaving the school gone (a) To any University? (b) To any other place of education? BOARDING HOUSES. 9. Does the Master keep a boarding house? 10. Do any Assistant Masters or Teachers keep boarding houses? 11. How many meals a day are given to the boarders? 12. Of what does each meal consist? 13. 14. What is the largest and what is the smallest number of scholars in any one bed-room? hat is the sum of the cubical contents of all the bed-rooms assigned to the boarders in the Master's house? and how many persons sleep in these rooms? 15. Has every scholar a separate bed? 16. What are the hours of going to bed and getting up? 17. What provision is there of washing apparatus? 18. How is discipline maintained in the bed-rooms? 19. Are there separate rooms for study? if so, to how many scholars is one room allotted? INSTRUCTION and DISCIPLINE. 20. During how many weeks in the year is the School at work? 21. What, if anything, are the scholars required to know on admission? 22. Do the scholars usually come from some other school, or from home teaching? 23. In which case are they better prepared? 24. What is the average time that the pupils remain in the School? 25. Is the School classified (a) by one leading subject or group of subjects solely; or (b) by one leading subject, &c., chiefly, and other subjects subordinately; or (c) separately for every subject or group of subjects? 26. Are the scholars promoted from class to class (a) by seniority; or (b) by marks gained for work done in the half or (c) by examination at the end of the half year; year; 27. Does success in one subject affect the promotion in another subject? 28. How many hours a week are the scholars in school? 29. What proportion of the lessons are learnt— (a) in school; (b) out of School under supervision by a teacher; (c) out of school not under supervision? 30. In learning Latin, Greek, French, and German lessons, are the scholars allowed (a) to use translations; or (b) to have assistance from a teacher; or (c) to have no aid but grammar and dictionary? 31. Are Latin, Greek, French, and German exercises donc (a) in prose; (b) in verse? 32. Are such exercises, if any,— (a) short sentences taken from Exercise-books; (c) original composition? 33. Are examples in arithmetic or mathematics- (b) dictated orally by the teacher; 34. Are the scholars taught history (a) from abridgments; (b) from standard authors; (c) from oral lectures? 35. Are the scholars taught natural history, physics, or chemistry— (a) by text books; (b) by oral lectures ; (c) with specimen objects and experiments shown by the teacher or lecturer; (d) with specimen objects handled and experiments worked by the scholars themselves? 36. Are the following subjects taught, and in what way— (a) geometrical drawing; (b) perspective; (c) freehand drawing from the flat; (d) freehand drawing from models; 37. Are the following subjects taught, and in what way (a) harmony; (b) instrumental music; (c) class singing ; (d) solo singing? 39. How often is the School examined? 39. By what examiners? and how are they appointed? 40. In what subjects? 41. What system of rewards and prizes is in use in the School? 42. Is it part of the system to modify the course of the School in the case of boys (a) who show a particular aptitude for certain studies; (b) who are intended by their parents for certain lines of life; (c) who after trial appear specially disquallified for any part of the school-work? If so, how is it done? 43. Is the ordinary school instruction sufficient, without supplementary aid, to prepare a boy of good ability for success in the competive examinations for Scholarships at the Universities, and for the Civil, Military, and East India services? 44. Is the School connected with any, and if so, with what religious denomination? 45. What provision is made for religious instruction? 46. Does the school-work begin and end with prayers? 47. What prayers are used? 48. Are all the scholars necessarily present at prayers? 49. In case of scholars whose parents wish them to be confirmed, by whom are they prepared? 50. Are there any lessons on Sundays? and how is the day observed? 51. What are the regulations about attendance on Divine worship on Sunday? 52. What punishments are in use? and for what offences are they inflicted? 53. If corporal punishment is in use, is it inflicted publicly or privately? 54. What punishments, if any, can be inflicted by the Master only? 55. What punishments, if any, can be inflicted by the Assistant Masters or Teachers, either with or without reporting to the Master? 56. Are there any monitors empowered to aid in maintaining discipline? 57. If there are, by whom, and how, are they appointed? |