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to annex a list of such schools in your district, and I am to request that you will have the goodness to enter, opposite to the name of each school, the month on which you could undertake annually to inspect it, and then return the list to this office.

I have the honor to be, &c.

Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, &c.

(Signed) R. R. W. LINGEN.

Enclosure in foregoing Letter.

Committee of Council on Education,
Council Office, Downing Street,
May, 1852.

I AM directed by the Lord President of the Council to request your attention to certain recent administrative regulations respecting the payment of the annual grants, to which, as a certificated teacher, you are conditionally entitled in augmentation of your salary.

This circular is addressed directly to yourself, to guard against the chances of miscarriage, but you should immediately deliver the enclosed duplicate copy to the principal acting manager or correspondent of your school.

The grants in question have hitherto been calculated from the quarter-day next following the date at which each certificated teacher is reported to the Committeee of Council to have entered upon a new engagement, and this period has not always harmonized with the season allotted by Her Majesty's Inspector for his annual visit to the school, or with the date of the indentures of the pupil-teachers apprenticed in it. Serious inconveniences having arisen from this discrepancy between the school year as reckoned from the date of the Inspector's visit, and as reckoned from the date at which each annual augmentation grant falls due, my Lords have directed

1. That in every school in which pupil-teachers are engaged, the pupilteacher year, i.e., the year reckoned from the month assigned in the indentures for the commencement of the apprenticeship, shall henceforth be regarded as the school year for all purposes, and that all the annual grants awarded in support of the school shall be calculated with reference to years thus computed.

2. That in schools where no pupil-teachers are engaged Her Majesty's Inspectors be requested to appoint certain months for their annual visits, and that the school year in each case be henceforth reckoned from the 1st day of the month so allotted.

In accordance with this plan, the school year in your school commences on the 1st day of but the yearly grant in augmentation of your

salary is conditionally due at There is an interval of

,

months between these two periods;

ard the augmentation of your salary for the current year, which is proposed to be paid up to the 1st day of

be calculated for

next, will consequently have to instead of twelve months. In future years the usual amount will be conditionally payable on the 1st day of the abovenamed month, and payment will be made as nearly to that day as possible. For further information as to the effect of the arrangements now announced, I beg leave to refer you to the enclosed broad sheet.*

I have the honor to be, &c.

(Signed) R. R. W. LINGEN.

*Vide Minutes for 1850-51, vol. i. page xcvi.

(No. 5.)

SIR,

Letter from Her Majesty's Assistant Inspector of Schools, the
Rev. J. W. D. Hernaman; with reply thereto.

Clifton, 3 February 1853.

I SHALL feel obliged if you will inform me what course to pursue Certificate when a certificate has been held by a master more than five years, and is of merit held consequently filled up.

more than five years;

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The case which has induced my present inquiry is that of Mr. B. Wilson, further enmaster of St. Michael's National School, in Bristol, in whose certificate thereon. favourable entries have been made each year by the Rev. F. Watkins. I have the honor to be, &c.

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Committee of Council on Education,
Council Office, Downing Street,
9 February 1853.

REVEREND SIR,

I HAVE the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd instant.

I am directed to inform you that My Lords see no impediment to entering additional notices of inspection on the back of a certificate after the five spaces on the face of it have been filled up.

Supposing the sixth notice to be unfavourable, and the other five to be favourable, My Lords think that thus much allowance should be made for the number of notices that (in some sense) might appear to be fixed by the structure of the document, viz., that, except in an extreme case, the sixth entry should not be forthwith made, but the teacher should have a year's grace to act upon the caution verbally conveyed to him by Her Majesty's Inspector, before having the producible value of his certificate reduced. Such a caution would of course have to be reported to the Committee of Council by Her Majesty's Inspector.

The Rev. J. W. D. Hernaman,

I have the honor to be, &c.

H. M. Assistant Inspector of Schools, &c.

(Signed) R. R. W. LINGEN.

EXAMINATIONS FOR CERTIFICATES OF Merit.

(No. 1.)

Committee of Council on Education,
Council Office, Downing Street.

SIR, I AM directed to request that you will have the goodness to prepare Instructions the papers named in the enclosed list, to be used at the ensuing examination issued to of candidates for certificates of merit.

H. M. Inspectors for

whereon to

The number of sections which each paper is intended to comprise is stated preparation in a separate column in the list. Each section should comprise three questions, of papers with a certain connexion in the subject matter, and progressive in difficulty. examine Questions exceeding this number will be omitted in printing.

candidates for Certificates of

I beg leave to request that you will refer to the papers which were set upon those subjects at examinations which have been recently held, and that Merit. you will adhere to the same character, and standard of questions.

I am to state expressly their Lordships' wish that every question should be worded in the simplest and least ostentatious language, and that the first question in each section should be of such a character as that ignorance of it would be inexcusable in any person professing even a moderate acquaintance with the subject of the paper.

The questions generally, without being vague, should be such naturally suggest themselves to a well-informed person, and not might be thought to be curious rather than essential.

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SIR,

Circular Letter to Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, &c.

Committee of Council on Educ1

Council Office, Downing Stre 16 October 1852.

I AM directed to inform you that complaints have been made to Reading (as Lords concerning the very small degree of attention which reading (as pai part of elo- elocution) receives in elementary schools.

cution) in schools under inspection.

It has been brought under their Lordships notice that out of nine Quet scholars in a training school under inspection not one was found qualified read the lessons in chapel.

In order to direct attention to this deficiency, my Lords think it desira that you should, on all occasions of examining pupil-teachers, make it a poi to require each of them to read to you a passage from some book, with words of which you are not familiar, while you stand yourself at son distance from the reader, without any book in your hand; the result to 1 recorded under the appropriate heading in the Form No. X.

It is unnecessary to remark that the power to read well does not depen upon distinct articulation, correct accents, and a certain exertion of the voic only, although even these mechanical parts of the matter appear to be re ceiving inadequate attention. It depends also, and principally, upon ar intelligent analysis of the several parts of every sentence, upon the distinction of subject and predicate, of principal and accessory clauses, and, generally, upon a knowledge of the relation of each word, in sense and construction, to the rest.

The reading will be found to be best in those schools where a passage not longer than will suffice to go round the class is selected for the purpose, and is then both read aloud and analyzed with reference to the mode of reading it.

Reading lessons are, in most cases, made to serve merely as texts for lectures and questions in the subject matter of them, and it may be necessary to read much with this object principally in view. It is, however, desirable that every school time-table should contain an entry of one daily lesson for each class in the art of reading as such.

I am to request that you will give effect to these observations forthwith in your examinations of pupil-teachers, and that you will, as you have opportunity, direct the attention of the school managers and school teachers to the deficiency which exists.

You will receive instructions to include an exercise in the art of reading in the oral part of the next Christmas examination at the training schools. I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) R. R. W. LINGEN.

To Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, &c.

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Proper forms, together with such other Documents as are necessary to

ll be furnished to Trustees or Managers of Schools, who

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ere School Managers desire to obtain Grants from the Committee of Council for Assistants in ch Assistants must be brought within the conditions which define one or other of these two they must either obtain Certificates of Merit, or fulfil the conditions of apprenticeship as Pupil r Stipendiary Monitors.

ortionate payments will be made for the first year only. The Rule is, that Augmentation eonditionally due for periods of Twelve Months, such periods being reckoned from the month the annual visit of Her Majesty's Inspector in one year to the same month in the following Teachers who quit their Schools in the course of one of these periods, will not be allowed Readingtion for any portion of the incomplete period. part of e cution) i schools under in spection

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May be conveniently assembled at the Annual Examination held at the Normal School in which they were educated, and may be examined in common with the Students (unless they prefer present themselves at the District Examinations mentioned in the next column). The Masters who have left the School will be expected to give evidence of a higher degree of practical skill in teaching, and of a riper knowledge of discipline, organization, and method; in other respects, evidence will be required of attainments closely similar in degree to those of the Students in the Normal School.

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