The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42
Chapter II. — Annual Grants
Chapter II.
Annual Grants.
Part I.
Elementary Schools.
Section I.
Preliminary Conditions.
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The school is conducted as a public elementary school (Article 6); and no child is refused admission to the school on other than reasonable grounds. |
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The school is not carried on under the management of any person or persons who derive emolument from it. |
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(c.) |
The school premises are healthy, well lighted, warmed, drained, and ventilated, properly furnished, supplied with suitable offices, and contain in the principal schoolroom and class-rooms at least 80 cubical feet of internal space, and 8 square feet of area, for each child in average attendance. |
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(d.) |
The principal teacher is certificated (Article 43), and is not allowed to undertake duties, not connected with the school, which occupy any part whatever of the school hours, or of the time appointed for the special instruction of pupil-teachers (Schedule II., 4).
Exception:—
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(e.) |
Notice is immediately given to the Department of any changes in the school staff (Article 39) which occur in the course of the year. The first grant to a school is computed from the date at which (1) the appointment of a certificated teacher is notified to, and recognized by, the Department; or (2) the acting teacher passes the examination for a certificate (Article 44). page 62 |
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(f.) |
The girls in a day school are taught plain needlework* and cutting out as part of the ordinary course of instruction. |
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(g.) |
All returns called for by the Department are duly made; the admission and daily attendance of the scholars carefully registered by, or under the supervision of, the teacher (Article 67); accounts of income and expenditure accurately kept by the managers, and duly audited;† and all statistical returns and certificates of character (Articles 67, 77, and 80) may be accepted as trustworthy. |
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Three persons have designated one of their number to sign the receipt for the grant on behalf of the school.
Exception:
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18. The grant may be withheld, if, on the inspector's report, there appears to be any serious primâ facie objection. A second inspection, by another inspector, is made in every such instance, and if the grant be finally withheld, a special minute of the case is made and recorded.
* This includes darning, mending, marking, and knitting; but no fancy work of any kind may be done in school hours.
† In the Isle of Man the accounts of every school will be audited and certified by the auditor of the Board of Education for the island.
Grants to Bay Schools.
19. The managers of a school which has met not less than 400‡ times, in the morning and afternoon, in the course of a year, as defined by Article 13, may claim at the end of such year—
(1.) | 4s. ‡ Exceptions:—
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(2.) | 1s. if singing forms part of the ordinary course of instruction. | ||||||||
(3.) | 1s. if the inspector reports that the discipline and organization are satisfactory. |
The inspector will bear in mind, in reporting on the organization and discipline, the results of any visits without notice (Article 12) made in the course of the school year; and will not interfere with any method of organization adopted in a training College under inspection if it is satisfactorily carried out in the school. To meet the requirements respecting discipline, the managers and teachers will be expected to satisfy the inspector that all reasonable care is taken, in the ordinary management of the school, to bring up the children in habits of punctuality, of good manners and language, of cleanliness and neatness, and also to impress upon the children the importance of cheerful obedience to duty, of consideration and respect for others, and of honour and truthfulness in word and act.
1. | If above four, and under seven, years of age at the end of the year (Article 13),—
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2. | If more than seven years of age, subject to examination (Articles 28, 29),—
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3. | After 31st March, 1878, no grant will be paid for any scholar who passes in only one of these three subjects (Article 29 b.). | ||||
4. | The results of the examination of each scholar will be communicated to the managers. * See note on previous page. † See Supplementary Rules 8 and 9 (Fifth Schedule). |
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5. | No scholar who has made the prescribed number of attendances may (without a reasonable excuse for absence on the day of the inspector's visit) be withheld from examination. |
C. 1. The sum of 4s. per scholar, according to the average number of children, above 7 years of age, in attendance throughout the year (Article 26), if the classes from which the children are examined in Standards II.-VI., or in specific subjects (Article 21 b.), pass a creditable examination in any two of the following subjects, viz., grammar, history, elementary geography, and plain needlework.
2. The extent of the examination is indicated by the passages printed in italics in Article 28. Needlework must be taught according to a system previously approved by the inspector, who will judge it by specimens worked on the day of inspection, by girls, or classes, selected by him for the purpose; and he will pay regard to the special circumstances of half-time scholars under any Labour Act.
3. In districts where Welsh is spoken the intelligence of the children examined may be tested by requiring them to explain in Welsh the meaning of passages read.
4. No scholar who has made the prescribed number of attendances, or has, at the date of inspection, been for three months on the register may (without a reasonable excuse for absence on the day of the inspector's visit) be withheld from examination under this paragraph (C.); and one half of the children so examined must pass creditably.
5. The mode of examination (whether oral or on paper)* is left to the discretion of the inspector.
6. Only 2s. per head will be paid under this paragraph (C.1.), unless 10† per cent, of the scholars examined under Article 19 B. 2 (a.) are presented in Standard IV. and upwards.
D. The sum of 10l (or 15l.), subject to a favourable report from the inspector, if the population within two miles, by road, of the school is less than 300 (or 200) souls, and there is no other public elementary school, with sufficient accommodation for such population, within three miles of the school.
* Examination on paper will, as a rule, be confined to scholars in Standard VI.
† This proportion will be raised in 1878 (1st April) to 15, in 1879 to 20, in 1880 to 25, and in 1881 to 30 per cent.
(a.) | Scholars attending school under any half-time Act. | ||||
(b.) | Scholars above 10,—
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(c.) | Scholars who reside two miles, or upwards, from the school. |
a. | A grant of 4s. per subject may be made for every day scholar, presented in Standards IV.-VI. (Article 28), who passes a satisfactory examination in not more than two of such subjects. |
b. | Any scholar who has previously passed in Standard VI. may, if qualified by attendance, be presented for examination in not more than three of such specific subjects. |
c. | No payment will be made under this Article if less than 75 per cent, of the passes attainable in the Standard Examination, by the scholars presented for examination (Article 28), has been obtained. |
d. | No grant may be claimed under this Article on account of any scholar who has been examined, in the same subject, within the preceding year, by the Department of Science and Art.* |
e. | The amount claimed under this Article is not taken into account in making a reduction under Article 32 (a.) 2. |
f. | After the 31st of March, 1877, every girl presented under this Article must take domestic economy (Schedule IV., Column 10) as a subject of examination. |
* See Science Directory (September, 1875), Section LI. "No pupil in an elementary school, receiving aid from the Education Department, Whitehall, may be presented for examination by the Science and Art Department, in any subject of science, who has not passed Standard VI. of the New Code: nor who has been examined within the preceding six months in the same subject by Her Majesty's Inspectors."
Grants to Evening Schools (Articles 106-112).
(a.) | The sum of 4s. per scholar, according to the average number in attendance throughout the year (Article 26). |
(b.) | For every scholar who has, in the year, been under instruction, in secular subjects, for not less than 40 hours during evening meetings of the school, 7s. 6d., subject to examination (Article 28), viz., 2s. 6d. for passing in reading, 2s. 6d. for passing in writing, and 2s. 6d. for passing in arithmetic. |
Calculation of Attendance.
23. Attendance at a morning or afternoon meeting may not be reckoned for any scholar who has been under instruction in secular subjects less than two hours,* if above, or one hour and a half† if under, seven years of age; nor attendance at an evening meeting for any scholar who has been under similar instruction less than one hour.
24. Attendance of boys at military drill, under a competent instructor, or of girls at lessons in practical cookery, approved by the inspector, for not more than two hours a week, and 40 hours in the year, may, in a day school, be counted as school attendance.
25. Attendances may not be reckoned for any scholar in a day school under 3 or above 18, or, in an evening school, under 12 or above 21, years of age.
26. The average number in attendance for any period is found by adding together the attendances of all the scholars' for the same period, and dividing the sum by the number of times the school has met within the same period; the quotient is the average number in attendance.
27. In calculating the average number in attendance, the attendances of half-time scholars reckon for no more than those of other scholars.
* This may include an interval of 15 minutes for recreation during a meeting of 3 hours, or of 5 to 10 minutes in a shorter meeting,
† Not including any time allowed for recreation.
Standards of Examination.
page 68(a.) | Under a lower Standard; or, |
(b.) | Under the same Standard, unless they fail to pass in more than one subject in that Standard (Article 19 B. 3 and 4). |
30. Suspended Articles.
31. Suspended Articles.
Reduction of Grant.
(a.) | By its excess above,—
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(b.) | By not less than one-tenth, nor more than one-half in the whole, upon the inspector's report, for faults of instruction, discipline, or registration, on the part of the teacher, or (after six months' notice) for failure on the part of the managers to remedy any such defect in the premises as seriously interferes with the efficiency of the school, or to provide proper furniture, books, maps, and other apparatus of elementary instruction. If the inspector at a visit without notice (Article 12), not less than six months after intimation has been given of the requirements of the Department, reports that they have not been carried into effect, a deduction may be made from the next grant to the school, (c.)— | ||||||
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(d.) | By one-twelfth for each month of interval between the employment of two certificated teachers (Article 17d.). This reduction is not made if the interval does not exceed three months during which the school has been in charge of an uncertificated teacher. |
33. If the excess of scholars has arisen from increased attendance of children since the last settlement of the school staff (Article 39), the amount claimed by the managers is not reduced under Article 32c.
* According to this rule,—
(1.) | No pupil-teacher is required for the first 60 scholars. |
(2.) | One pupil-teacher is required for any number of scholars between 61 and 100, inclusive. |
(3.) | Two pupil-teachers are required for 101 to 140 scholars, and so on. |
School Diary or Log-Booh.
(a.) | A diary or log-book. |
(b.) | A portfolio to contain official letters, which should be numbered (1, 2, 3, etc.) in the order of their receipt. |
35. The diary or log-book must be stoutly bound and contain not less than 300 ruled pages.
36. The principal teacher must make at least once a week in the log-book an entry which will specify ordinary progress, visits of managers and other facts concerning the school or its teachers, such as the dates of withdrawals, commencements of duty, cautions, illness, etc., which may require to be referred to at a future time, or may otherwise deserve to be recorded.
37. No reflections or opinions of a general character are to be entered in the log-book.
page 7038. No entry once made in the log-book may be removed or altered otherwise than by a subsequent entry.
39. The summary of the inspector's report after his annual visit, or any visit made without notice, and any remarks made upon it by the Department, when communicated to the managers, must be immediately copied verbatim into the log-book, with the names and standing (certificated teacher of the—-class, or pupil-teacher of the—--year, or assistant teacher) of all teachers to be continued on, or added to, or withdrawn from, the school staff, according to the decision of the Department upon the inspector's report. The correspondent of the managers must sign this entry, which settles the school staff for the year.
40. The inspector will call for the log-book and portfolio at every visit, and will report whether they appear to have been properly kept. He will specially refer to the entry made pursuant to Article 39, and he will require to see entries accounting for any subsequent change in the school staff. He will also note in the log-book every visit paid without notice (Article 12), making an entry of such particulars as require the attention of the managers.