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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 23
Standard V.(1)
Standard V.(1)
Reading and Definition.—A book of general information, not necessarily excluding matter such as that prescribed for Standard IV.
Spelling and Dictation suited to this stage.
Writing.—Small-hand copies in a strict formal style, and text-hand; transcription of verse in complicated metres, and of prose exhibiting the niceties of punctuation.
Arithmetic(2).—Proportion; simple interest; the easier cases of vulgar fractions, and problems involving them; mental arithmetic.
Grammar and Composition.—Inflexions of the verb; the parsing (with inflexions) of all the words in any easy sentence; a short essay or letter on a familiar subject, or the rendering of the sense of a passage of easy verse into good prose; analysis of a simple sentence.
Geography(3) .—Knowledge of places of political, historical, and commercial importance in New Zealand, in Great Britain, and on the European Continent; and the drawing of outline maps of New Zealand, Great Britain, and Europe. Physical Geography: Distribution of land and water; mountain and river systems; changes effected by the agency of water; and climate as influenced by mountain, plain, and sea.
English History(4).—The period from 1485 a.d. to 1714 a.d. treated as the former period is treated in Standard IV.
Elementary Science, &c.—See Regulation 9.
1 The intention of the scheme for Standard V. will be for the most part abundantly clear to the teacher that has carefully read the notes on the four preceding standards.
2 By "the easier cases of vulgar fractions" is meant cases that do not involve very complex fractional expressions. A knowledge of leading principles applied to simple problems satisfies the requirements of the standard in this respect.
3 "Knowledge of places of political, historical, and commercial importance" does not mean full knowledge of the political, historical, and commercial importance of such places, but the knowledge that such places are important, and the ability to point them out on the map; and that the form of words quoted was adopted for the purpose of discouraging the useless labour of committing to memory mere lists of mountains, rivers, and obscure places, and to confine within narrow limits the possible demands of exacting teachers and examiners.
4 In history (as in Standard IV.) "precise dales will not be required."