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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 31
Schoolmistresses Certificate
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Schoolmistresses Certificate
The Committee of the Privy Council on Education Hereby Certify that Elizabeth Kerr Hay, a Student in the Glasgow Established Church Training College, was examined in the month of June, 1857, before Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, according to the course of Study which-answers to the Second year of Normal Training.
On a subsequent occasion, viz: in the month of August, 1860, having been employed for 2 ¼ years in the Renton General Assembly Female School, she was require to teach a class in the presence of Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, who made the following Report upon her skill, as s hewn by that exercise:
Miss Elizabeth Kerr Hay in personally well fitted for the office of a Teacher—she maintains excellent order, is acquainted with the usually approved methods of imparting instruction, and is diligent and successful in applying them; altogether, she appears to exercise a very good moral influence on the young.
Ed. Woodford,
H. M. Inspector.