Tabulated Reports, in detail, on Schools Inspected by the Rev. F. Watkins-continued.

No. of Children learning Number of Children No. of Children Number of Children on the Books,
Arithmetic, as far as
Writing on

18 21

30

2 4 5 7 12 14

46

4

30

Marshall's Factory.
Boys'.
Girls'

Of merit last year, and seems to be doing his work here with earnestness and skill. 6.
This is a Mixed school (with very few girls) in a manufacturing village, held in a hand-
some and convenient building, which contains an infants' room and a master's house.
It has not been inspected before. I have examined one candidate for the apprenticeship,
who seems to be well qualified for it. The privies of this school are in a very filthy
state. (Books and apparatus)-a very fair supply of both books and maps. A supply
grant is much needed. (Desks and furniture)-desks against the wall; loose benches;
master's desk; teacher's seats.

Gawthorpe. Inspected March 30, 1849. Boys and girls, mixed, in four classes, under
untrained master, with sewing mistress in afternoon. Not neat nor clean, and unquiet.
At Earl's Heaton the master receives 51. for lodgers in his house. At Gawthorpe the
mistress's house is let for 21., which goes to the school funds.

Leeds, Little Holbeck, Marshall's Factory, Boys'. Inspected April 2, 1849.-1. Ten
classes (some of large size) under a head master, with three assistants and two pupil-
teachers of the first year; the classes are broken up into drafts for reading and some other
lessons. 2. Excellent; not surpassed, if equalled, by any so large school. 3. Mixed; a
good deal of simultaneous answering; some collective lessons and individual teaching in
small drafts. 5. The master has been here 24 years nearly; his influence over the
children is great, and his character stands very high. He is assisted by two younger men
trained at Battersea, and one untrained. One of the assistants has obtained a certificate of
merit. 6. A very important school in the suburbs of Leeds (Little Holbeck), supported
entirely by the Messrs. Marshall; very beneficial for the class for whom it is intended.
Its tone is excellent, and the instruction is in general intelligently given. The room is
particularly clean and neat. The reading books put in the hands of the lower classes
seem far too difficult for them. Some better class-rooms are wanted to complete the
school arrangements. (Desks, &c.)-double desk down one side of the room. Benches
fixed in squares in the centre and sides. (Books, &c.)-a fair supply of books, maps, and
other apparatus.

Leeds, Little Holbeck, Marshall's Factory, Girls'. Inspected April 2, 1849.-1. Four
classes (two of them very large), under a master trained at Battersea, two young women
as assistants, and three pupil-teachers of the first year, with an industrial mistress both in
morning and afternoon. 2. Fair; too much noise, both in teaching and in moving the
classes. 3. A good deal of simultaneous teaching, which seems to me to want some
attention, lest it generate indolence in the greater number of the children. 5. The master
has been here three years and a-half, was trained at Battersea, is an active and intelligent
teacher. The mistress only undertakes industrial instruction. 6. This is a very important
school, under the same circumstances as the boys; but not in so high a state of discipline,
nor with so pleasing a tone. The division of the classes seems to me faulty, where there
are several qualified teachers. The dress of the children is not so neat nor tidy as in other
schools where equal care is bestowed on them. I had not time to examine this school at
all fully. (Books and apparatus)-a fair supply of both., (Desks and furniture)-a long
double desk on one side of the room.

Meanwood, Boys'. Inspected April 3, 1849.-1. Four classes under certificated master and
two apprentices of the first year, with some unpaid monitors. The pupil-teachers have
in general taught the second and third classes, whilst the master has taken the first and
the fourth. 2. Very fair; the children generally clean, neat, and cheerful in manner.
3. Mixed, chiefly individual. 5. The master is an intelligent young teacher, who obtained
a certificate of merit last year. He takes much pains with his school, and till lately has
had all the children under his care. 6. This is a village school, in a semi-manufacturing
district in the neighbourhood of Leeds, supported by the Miss Becketts, of Meanwood
Park. The building is handsome, with a master's house adjacent, and a well-drained and

table; loose benches. books, with some good maps and easels. Desks against the wall; teachers' desks and

Meanwood, Girls'. Inspected April 3, 1849.-1. Four classes under mistress, with no
regular assistance, but some unpaid monitors. 2. Very fair; children generally quiet
and attentive. 3. Mixed; chiefly individual. 5. The mistress has only been here three
months ; was trained for awhile at Westminster. 6. This school has only been separated
from the boys three months since, and placed under a mistress. It is held at one end of
the boys' room, and divided from it by a curtain. I have examined one girl as a candi-
date for the apprenticeship. (Books and apparatus)-a tolerable supply of books, same
as in the Boys' school. (Desks and furniture)-desks against the wall; loose benches;
teachers' seat and desk.

Yeadon. Inspected April 4, 1849.-1. Four classes at present, of boys and girls mixed,
under a master and his wife, with no further assistance. One boy is preparing for the
apprenticeship; but the managers wish to wait for others. 2. Good, for the time that the
school has been opened; children clean and orderly. 3. Mixed; both simultaneous and
individual teaching. 5. The object of my visit was to complete the report on the mistress.
She is a very intelligent, cheerful, and pleasing teacher, kind in manner to the children,
and skilful in her work. She has only been here three months. 6. This is at present a
mixed school, having been open only three months under a master, with his wife as mis-
tress. Hereafter the children of the two sexes will be separated, and taught in their
respective rooms. There are good rooms, with class-rooms attached for either sex (the
boys above the girls), and a master's house of convenient size, with separate yards for the
children; the building is neat and substantial. The village is in the manufacturing dis-
trict, and the population of the district is about 4,000. (Books and apparatus)-a fair
supply of both, by grant ftom the Committee of Council. (Desks and furniture)-loose
desks parallel and loose benches; teachers' boxes.

Leeds. Model Infants'. Visited April 4, 1849.-Many children absent from prevailing
sickness. Singing lessons to upper class, and reading lessons in first and second, very
effective. Children did not seem very clean or tidy. Only two hours' schooling in
afternoon, one half hour of which is spent in the playground; the same time allowed
for play in the morning.

Sheffield, St. Paul's, Boys' Inspected April 5, 1849.-1. Eight classes under a trained
master, with one pupil-teacher of the first year, and irregular monitors. No class lists are
kept, nor the usual books of attendance, &c. 2. Moderate; the children are quiet and
regular in their movements. 3. Chiefly monitorial, the lower classes being taught by
boys of the first class, altogether unprepared for their office. 5. Trained at York for one
year; has only been here one month, and does not yet know much of the state of his
school and its circumstances, which seem very unsatisfactory. 6. This school has fallen
to a very low standard of instruction. The numbers also have decreased much since my
last visit, and the age of the children is strikingly low. The number of books in the
classes is altogether disproportionate to that of the children, and inexplicable under the
circumstances of a late grant from the Committee of Council. (Books and apparatus)-
very deficient supply of books. In four lower classes were only 15 books for 47 children.
(Desks and furniture)-desks against the wall; loose benches; master's desk.

Sheffield, St. Paul's, Girls'. Inspected April 5, 1849.-Girls in eight classes in one
room, with class of small children in adjoining room, under mistress and two pupil-
teachers of the first year, in good order, and making apparently fair progress. Examined
them briefly in geography, grammar, dictation, and sums. Their writing is very neat; a
good deal of running-hand. The mistress has been here three years. The room is too
much crowded, and the class-room intolerable; 54 little ones in a space calculated for
20 children. There should be four or five more pupil-teachers in the school.
are generally clean, neat, and pleasing in manner; very satisfactory on the whole.

The girls

Character of Instruction

in each Class.

1 to 5 f.

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22

88

cats, and ner daughters. The room is hardly large
enough for the number of children; it appears to me that the discipline suffers in con-
sequence. Two of the present candidates were examined for the apprenticeship last
year, and have made good improvement since that examination. Some of the upper
girls are said to be absent, setting potatoes. (Books and apparatus)-deficiency of reading
books (secular) in quantity; some small black-boards would be useful. (Desks and fur-
niture)-desks against the wall, with loose benches.

Methley, Boys'. Inspected May 8, 1849.-1. Four classes under a certificated master,
with two pupil-teachers of the first year, who have been apprenticed only half a-year,
2. Tolerable; the boys are not in general orderly or attentive in their classes. 3. A good
deal of simultaneous answering in classes, which is not sufficiently guarded. 5. He is an
intelligent questioner, has been here three years, and was trained at the Diocesan Institu-
tion at York for the same time. 6. The standard of instruction in this school is hardly
equal to that of other schools under certificated masters; nor does there seem to be the
improvement which might have been expected since the introduction of pupil-teachers,
either in the number of children attending, or in their progress. The number in average
attendance for the last six months has only been 46, with two pupil-teachers. (Books and
apparatus) there is a want of general reading books. (Desks and furniture)-the desks
are against the wall, with loose benches.

Methley, Girls'. Inspected March 8, 1849.-1. Five classes of girls (with some little
boys in the lower classes) under trained mistress, with one pupil-teacher. 2. Good; the
children clean and neat, quiet and orderly. 3. Mixed. 5. The mistress was trained at
Whitelands. She is active and intelligent in her duties, and seems to exercise a bene-
ficial influence over the children. 6. This school of girls, with some little boys in the
lower class, has lately been brought into the new building, where they are now taught.
The building is handsome, and contains a teacher's residence. Two candidates, one of
whom was examined last year, have presented themselves for examination to-day, with
one pupil-teacher at the end of her first year. (Books and apparatus)-a fair supply.
(Desks and furniture)-the desks are not yet in their places; but they are to be placed
parallel to each other.

Dodworth. Inspected May 11, 1849.-1. There are, as far as may be, three classes, but
not regularly defined, chiefly arranged according to their power of reading. 2. Very fair;
the children are quiet, and seem cheerful in their work. 3. Chiefly individual, on the
old parish system, though there are now some attempts at the classification of the children.
5. The master has not been regularly trained; but has some experience in teaching,
having been here years. Is a man of good natural abilities, but chiefly self-taught.
6. This is a mixed "town school," the tenure and circumstances of which it is difficult to
discover. It is held in part of a house, the remainder of which is occupied by the master.
The school-room is tolerably spacious and convenient, though there is no provision for
ventilation, except from the door and windows. (Books and apparatus)-only a tolerable
supply of each. Some more reading books and maps are wanted. (Desks and furniture)
-desks against the wall, and double desk in the centre of the room; master's desk.

Leeds, St. Paul's. Inspected May 15, 1849.-1. Six classes of boys, with a few girls, under
a master trained at Battersea, with two pupil-teachers in the second year, and other
monitors. 2. Very fair, especially considering the present circumstances of the building
and accommodation. 3. Mixed, with some collective lessons. 5. An intelligent teacher,
who seems to be earnest in his work, and really interested in it. He has been here
two years and a-half, and has done good work in that time. 6. This school consists of
boys, with a few girls, who are taught in borrowed rooms until new rooms are erected.

u menu seu, but 100se, in parallel rows, as a tem

porary arrangement.
Leeds, All Saints, Boys'. Inspected May 16, 1849.-1. Six classes under certificated master
and one pupil-teacher of the first year. A good many little children at the bottom of
the school. 2. Good, especially considering the time that the school has been open.
3. Mixed; chiefly simultaneous, under pupil-teacher and monitors. 5. He obtained a
certificate of merit last year; has been here rather more than a year, and in that time has,
by his devotion to his work, and skill in it, made very satisfactory progress with the
children. 6. This school is in a new district in the outskirts of Leeds, containing a large
population; the buildings were opened last year, with separate rooms for boys, girls, and
infants, and a good class-room, with a teacher's house, yards, &c. The rooms are conve-
nient in size, well ventilated, and cheerful. (Books and apparatus)-a fair supply of
reading books and apparatus. (Desks and furniture)-parallel desks in two rows at the
end of the room; teacher's desk, table, loose benches.

Leeds, All Saints, Girls'. Inspected May 16, 1849.-1. Five classes under mistress,
with older girls as monitors, two of whom are above the age of 16 years. 2. Tolerable;
the children do not seem to be attentive. 3. Mixed; chiefly, I should think, simul-
taneous. 5. Has been here about a year; has not been regularly trained; seems kind to
the children. 6. This school does not seem to have made equal progress with the Boys',
either in discipline or instruction. The room is cheerful and well ventilated, with a
class-room between it and the Boys' school. Both the candidates for apprenticeship from
this school are above the age of 16, and have been examined on the subjects at the end of
the first year. (Books and apparatus)-tolerable supply; the lower classes require, I
conceive, easier books. (Desks and furniture)-parallel desks in two rows at the end of
the room, loose benches, work-table, &c.

New Wortley. Inspected May 17, 1849.-1. Three classes of boys and girls mixed,
under a trained master, with a pupil-teacher of the first year. There is no sewing mis-
tress for the girls. 2. Fair; the children are very young, and consequently inattentive
in class. 3. Mixed; chiefly, I should think, simultaneous, but the children are so young
that it is more like an Infants' than a Juvenile school. 5. Has been here only nine months,
and is now about to leave. He was trained at York. 6. This school is held in part of a
beautiful and spacious new building, having separate rooms for boys, girls, and infants;
class-room and master's house, with accommodation (I am told) for 500 children. Only
one room is occupied, and the average attendance in it is only 50 boys and girls mixed,
chiefly very young children. The Girls' school has been closed for the last six weeks.
(Books and apparatus)-a very poor supply of both, altogether insufficient. (Desks and
furniture)-one double desk at one end of the room, some loose benches with backs.

Hoyland, Barnsley. Inspected May 18, 1849.-1. Four classes (some of which are sub-
divided at times) under trained master, with three pupil-teachers in their second year,
and some monitors preparing for the office. 2. Very good; the children are cheerful,
orderly, and attentive. 3. Mixed; some simultaneous. 5. The master has been here
five years, obtained a certificate of merit last year, and has devoted himself with great zeal
and good skill to the duties of his office. 6. This is a Mixed school in a mining and manu-
facturing district; the village to which it belongs has been suffering much during the last
12 months from the stoppage of large iron-works, which has much crippled the means of
the people: the school has, however, been comparatively little affected by it.
children and parents seem, in some degree, to appreciate the benefits of a sound and intel-
ligent education. (Books and apparatus)-a good supply. A grant has been obtained
from the Lords of the Committee of Council. (Desks and furniture)-desks against the
wall; double desk in centre of room; loose benches.

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VOL. I.

Tabulated Reports, in detail, on Schools Inspected by the Rev. F. Watkins-continued.

Number of Children learning

No. of Children learning Number of Children No. of Children Number of Children on the Books,

Arithmetic, as far as

Writing on

Paper.

Slates.

Reading

aged

1

Geography.

Fractions and

Decimals.
Proportion and
Practice.

Compound Rules
and Reduction.

Numeration or
Notation.

Division.

Composition.
From Copies.

Addition.

Abstracts or

Composition.
From Dictation
or Memory.
From Copies.

Abstracts or

Books of General
Information.

Holy Scriptures.

Easy Narratives.
Letters and

Monosyllables.

7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Who have left within

the last 12 Months.

Admitted within the last 12 Months. In ordinary

Attendance.

28

40

57 13

74 27 80 23 33 35 32 21 13 9 6 49 212 129

North Frodinghan.
Mixed

1 to 3 f. 49

14

Roos.

Boys'
Girls'

1 to 2g. 3,4 57 1 to 4 g.

1

8

27 27 41

49

5

5

49

15 26

(c)(b)(a)

1. Organisation

(a) To sew or knit.

(b) Cut out and make clothes.