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Fifth Schedule.

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 VI. 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 VII 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. There must be no intermixture of standards.*

Rule 4.—The end of each standard in column VII b. need not (although of course, it may) coincide with the end of each class in column VI.* 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.—All the scholars 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.—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^* page 90 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, etc. Primâ 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 children in Schools wherein Rule 2 or 3 is violated. He will in such cases proceed to inspect the School, and will report to the Education Department why he has left column VIII. (his Report on each candidate) in the Examination Schedule blank.

Rule 8.—No grant will be paid to a Day School in which children are retained after the age of 8, 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 II.

Rule 9.—A deduction of at least one tenth will be made from the grant to a Day School in which children are retained after the age of ten, unless one class—i.e. all who are to be examined as members of one class, according to Rule 5—be presented above Standard II.

Rule 10.—For the rule how to find the average number of scholars in attendance at a school for any period, see Article 26 of the Code.

Rule 11.—The Class Registers at each meeting of a school must be marked and finally closed before the minimum time constituting an attendance (Article 23) begins.

If any child, entered in the Register as attending, is withdrawn from school before the time constituting an attendance is complete, its mark for presence should be at once cancelled.

The Inspector will inquire whether these rules have been observed (Article 17 h).

Rule 12.—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 10, suprà, and the whole number of such names must be counted for the return "left in past year."