Tabulated Reports by Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, Rev. E. D. TINLING, on Schools inspected by him in SOUTH-EASTERN DISTRICT, in year 1849. Number of Children learning
Character of Instruction
in each Class.
Number present at
Examination.
No. of Children learning Number of Children No. of Child
Number of Children on the Books aged
Who have left within]
In ordinary At ndance.
the last 12 Months. Admitted within the last 12 Months.
22 12 16 6 5 3 4 5 42 6 9 5 1 4 4 2
12 21 12 46 113 12 9 8 5 1 2.
38 16 14 14 7 4 1 3 93 147
3. Methods. 2. Discipline. Ashbury. Inspected May 7, 1849.-1. A Boys' school, under a master and an ap- prentice. A Girls' school, under a mistress and two candidates for stipendiary moni tors. 2 Discipline fair. 3. Method may be improved. 4. The instruction is taken pains with; there is a great wish to raise the standard of education. 5. The master and mistress both appear willing to work hard, and to do what they can to make the school efficient.
Old Swindon. Inspected May 8, 1849.-1. An Infant school, under a mistress and two candidates for apprenticeship. The school has only been opened for a short time, but is going on very well. The mistress was trained for a time at the Sanctuary, Westminster, and appears to take great pains with her children, and to be liked by
Melksham. Inspected May 9, 1849.-1. A Boys' school, under a master and two candidates for apprenticeship. A Girls' school, under a mistress, assisted by an ap prentice, and the younger children under a second mistress. 2 and 3. Discipline and method pretty fair. 4. The instruction of the upper children in the first-class of the Boys' school, fair; the remainder not sufficiently advanced. The first class girls answered to questions upon Scripture subjects very nicely; the lower classes in this school are more attended to. 5. The master and mistress seem to take pains with their children, but the master has not been successful with his little classes.
Trowbridge (Trinity). Inspected May 10, 1849.-1. A Mixed school, under a mis- three pupil-teachers; three candidates for apprenticeship, and two other monitors. 2. Discipline extremely good. 3. Method works well. 4. lustruction sound and good as far as it goes, and, considering the time the school has been open, satisfactory in extent. 5. The mistress appears active, earnest, and enthusiastic, doing much good in her school. 6. This is a nice school, owing, I believe, to the un- remitting exertions of the clergyman.
Diltons Marsh. Inspected May 10, 1849.-1. A Mixed school, under a master, aided by a pupil-teacher; and the younger children, under his wife, in another room. 2 The discipline is imperfect. 3. Method not sufficiently considered. 4. Instruction mode- rate, but taken pains with. 5. The master was trained at Battersea, is intelligent, but not gentle enough in manner with the children.
Salisbury, Boys'. Inspected May 15, 1849.-1. A Boys' school, under a master, an assistant teacher, two pupil-teachers, and three candidates for apprenticeship. 2. Discipline good. 3. Method satisfactory. 4. Instruction very fair; much intelligence in the children; religions teaching taken great pains with. The Infant class requires more care and more instruction. 5. The master is a pleasing, hard-working, and ap- parently conscientious teacher, doing good in his school, and carrying much influence with his children for good. Inspected May 15, 1849.-1. A Girls' school, under a mistress and Salisbury, Girls'. one apprentice, with six candidates for apprenticeship, aided by the young persons from the Salisbury Female Training School. 2. The discipline is moderate. 3. The method satisfactory. 4. Instruction may be improved. 5. The mistress ill with I saw this school under great disadvantage, from the absence of the mis- small. pox. tress, and the training pupils not having their classes in their usual order of in- struction.
Downton. Inspected May 16, 1849.-1. A Girls' and Infants' school, under a mis- tress, an apprentice, and three candidates for pupil-teachers, aided by an assistant who takes charge of the infants. 2 and 3. Disciplíne and method fair. 4. The instruction is fair; the answers upon religious subjects, and the reading in the first class, good.
6. The mistress was trained at Salisbury; she is rather off-hand in manner. The school-building good.
Warminster, Boys'. Inspected May 21, 1849.-1. A Boys' school, under a master, with four classes in one room, and an assistant teacher in another room with the re- maining three classes, aided by two pupil-teachers, and several candidates for ap- prenticeship. 2 and 3. Discipline and method good. 4. Great pains taken with the religious instruction: English history, geography, and composition have been success. fully taught. The writing aud singing are good. 5. The master a hard-working, earnest man, willing and anxious to do his utmost. The whole tone of this school is very satisfactory. The vicar takes great interest in the school, and passes much time in giving instruction to the children.
Warminster, Girls'. Inspected May 22, 1849.-1. A Girls' school, under a mistress also an Infant school, under a mistress and an assistant and two pupil-teachers teacher. 2 and 3. Discipline and method satisfactory. 4. The replies of the childreu upon religious subjects were made with much life and animation. The secular instruc- tion fair. The Infant school bears a very high character, but I was not able to be Singing good. 5 The mistress of the long there; what I saw was very satisfactory. Girls' school is just leaving, and a certificated teacher from Salisbury is coming next month. The Infant mistress has just been examined for her certificate at Cheltenham. These schools, as well as the Boys' school, are under the careful and watchful super- intendence of the vicar.
Westbury, Boys'. Inspected May 23, 1849.-1. A Boys' school, under a master, a pupil-teacher, and a candidate for apprenticeship 2 and 3. Discipline and method satisfactory. 4. Instruction very good, and given with very great life and animation by the master and apprentice. 5. The master is energetic, and entirely given up to his school duties; he really seems to live for them; he is rather noisy in his work. Westbury, Girls'. Inspected May 23, 1849.-A Girls' school, under a mistress, a pupil teacher, and two apprentices. 2. Discipline very good, and a high moral tone throughout the school. 3. Method pleasing 4. Instruction might beneficially be in- creased; great pains is taken with the religious teaching. 5. Mistress intelligent and pains-taking; a good examiner of children. 6. There is also an Infant school con- nected with this Girls' school; I was unable to examine it; it is to be placed under this mistress, aided (it is hoped) by an additional pupil teacher.
West Ashton, Iuspected May 24, 1849.-1. A Mixed school under a mistress, two pupil-teachers, and four candidates, assisted by eight other paid monitors. 3. This school is divided into three distinct sections, each working in separate roon s; one room allotted for reading, one for oral instruction, and one for arithmetic and writing. 2. Discipline very good indeed. 4. The instruction is taken great pains with, aud is sound and god. 5. Mistress is young, very earnest, but scarcely up to her work (if she fail, a new teacher is to be provided) 6. The clergyman is indefatigable; he works three or four hours in his school every day, or with his teachers and monitors, and is regardless of expense so that his school may be really efficient.
Horningsham. Inspected May 25, 1849. 1. A Mixed school, under a master, with a mistress to teach needle-work to the girls in the afternoon. 2. Discipline and method fair. 4. The instruction is satisfactory; great pains taken with the religious teaching, and successfully. Singing good. 5. The master was trained at St. Mark's; is atten- tive, earnest-minded, and gives general satisfaction; he is almost overpowered by numbers. 6. This school was built and is supported by the Dowager Marchioness of Bath.
General Report by Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, the Rev. E. DOUGLAS TINLING, on Schools inspected by him in the South Western District of England, comprising the Counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, and Somerset ;-for the Years 1848 and 1849.
IN offering to your Lordships a second Report on the schools in the South-western District, comprising the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, and Somerset, I beg leave to lay before you a statement of the work in which I have been engaged, and the time during which I have been officially employed.
Since my last report, dated April 1848, I have without intermission devoted myself to the work which your Lordships have kindly entrusted to my charge; a great part of my time has been taken up with the inspection of those schools in which the managers have sought for the advantages derivable from the Minutes of August and December 1846; whilst a considerable portion of it has been occupied with the general examination for mistresses at Michaelmas 1848, and Easter 1849; together with the examination of the Training Institution for Females at Salisbury; and the overlooking certain papers, worked by the whole body of candidates for certificates of merit at these different examinations, as also by candidates from the Chester Training Institution after their examination at Christmas last. For the space of nearly three weeks in 1848, and for a similar period during the present year, I was engaged in visiting the following schools in the Rev. H. Moseley's district.
Atworth, Wilts.-Boys, girls, and infants. Burley, Hampshire.-Boys and girls. Coombe Bisset, Wilts.-Mixed. Castle Coombe, Wilts.-Boys and girls. Durrington, Wilts,-Mixed. Heywood House. Wilts.-Mixed. Nunton, Wilts.-Mixed. Nether Wallop, Wilts.-Mixed. Romsey, Hampshire. - Boys.
Trowbridge, Wilts.-Boys, girls, and infants.
West Meon, Hampshire.-Boys and girls.
Ashbury, Berkshire.—Boys and girls. Downton, Wilts.-Mixed.
Dilton's Marsh, Wilts.-Mixed, and in- fants.
Horningsham, Wilts.-Mixed
Melksham, Wilts.-Boys and girls.
Salisbury, Wilts.-Boys and girls.
Swindon, Old, Wilts.-Infants. Trowbridge, Trinity, Wilts.-Mixed. Warminster, Wilts.-Boys, girls, and infants.
Westbury, Wilts.-Boys and girls. West Ashton, Wilts.-Mixed.
The following is a list of the schools visited in my own district since my last Report. They are classified in two divisions. 1st. Containing those schools in which apprentices are already sanctioned; showing their number, male and female. 2nd. Containing the remaining schools in which, from the more limited amount of instruction afforded, or from various other causes, there are at this time no apprentices.
It will be found that a certain number of schools, visited during the past year, do not appear in either of these classes. The reasons for their omission are shown in the following Table.
In the schools above named, I have examined since my last Report nearly 25,000 children, upward of 200 apprentices (a great number of whom have during this period been examined a second time), and more than 100 teachers to test their powers intellectually to undertake the charge of apprentices.
I append a list of the schools in this district in which at this present time there are certificated teachers.
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