Mr. and Mrs. Tye have recently taken charge of the two schools; they appear to have begun very well. Mr. Tye understands agricultural work, and out-door industrial training is about to be engrafted into the other school-work; the payments vary from 4d. to 1d. The school is still rather backward, but I have no doubt of its improvement under the present teachers.

25 Oct. 78 80 97 70 Buildings good. Desks, eight loose desks, fair; furniture fair, Books, first class reading-books wanted; ap paratus moderate, Organization, infants should be separated. Discipline fair, instruction moderate A good teacher's residence has been Intely built, adjoining the schools one of the rooms will, I hope, be used as a class-room for the infants, whose presence in the main school impairs its efficiency. The school is ertainly improved under Mr and are Tarlins The children pay tel., 3d, al 2. per week. The boys and

Sandbach) has only just undertaken charge of this scho

tion. The children pay 4d., 3d., and 2d. The girls school is still little more than an infant school, under Miss Taylor.

I was sorry to find the school still in its old quarters, and not in a position to enable me to recommend apprenticeship. A new and very beautiful building near the church is nearly completed; as soon as it cau be occupied the organization of the school will, I hope, be extended; the infants being still under Miss Dix's excellent care, and the elder children under a certificated teacher to whom apprentices may be bound. I examined a candidate for apprenticeship in this school, but it was thought desirable to postpone the appointment of pupil-teachers for a year. The school has not been inspected for some years. Difficulties in procuring a site have delayed the new builing; and until the school is in a new building, properly supplied with apparatus, it cannot be considered a fit place for the training of pupil-teachers. There is now, I am glad to find, an immediate prospect of the new building being commenced on an eligible site. I can therefore recommend apprenticeship on the understanding that in the course of the ensuing year the school shall be installed in a new and complete building. Miss Mason deserves great praise for the admirable way in which she conducts the school under the most disadvantageous

circumstances.

Buildings spacious and in fair condition. Desks, boys seven loose desks, girls wall desks; furniture moderate;
playground, small brick yard. Books a moderately fair supply; apparatus fair. Organization moderate.
Discipline fair; instruction, first class very fair. I have much pleasure in recommending that Mr. Robinson
should receive his certificate. The arrangements of the classes might be improved, and the efficiency of
both schools greatly advanced, if an infant school could be added to the establishment. The district seems to
need one very much. The old infant school (a mile off) is now the school of St. George's district. The
girls school, under Miss Lowe, appears to be as efficient as it well can be with such a large intermixture of
infants. The needlework is very good and well regulated; last year the proceeds from this source to the
school funds were 6l. 118. 3d. The children pay a uniform rate of 2d. per week.

Buildings moderate. Desks, one loose desk; wall desks; parallel desks needed; playground insufficient.
Books hardly sufficient; apparatus moderate. Discipline very fair. Instruction good.

The boys' examination pleased me much. I was glad to find a first class of thirty, well advanced, and paying
6d. a week. The graduated payment appears to answer well. One of the pupil-teachers now completes his
apprenticeship. Mr. Durose has evidently been taking great pains with his school.

The girls school is now under Miss Griffin, formerly pupil-teacher at St. Paul's, Wolverhampton; she has not yet had time to advance them to the pupil-teacher standard.

The infants are still under Dame Hollins, in a very small room.

My visit had not reference to any annual grant, the master (Mr. Musgrave, Battersea), not having yet obtained a certificate. I was much pleased with the results of my examination. The school has been made attractive to the farmers and tradesmen by the addition of lessons on agricultural chemistry, mensuration, and book-keeping. It now draws equally from the families of farmers, tradesmen, and labourers. A child from the first class pays 88. or 10s. per quarter; from the second 6d, or 4d. per week; from the third 1d. per week. In these respects it is a model school for a small agricultural parish.