223. Dengy. Inspected July 23, 1849.-A very nice little school, under a very intel-
ligent young teacher, altogether, for a village school of young children, one of the best
I have seen; they are very intelligent for their years, and seem cheerful and well
behaved. The clergyman is very attentive, and the result is satisfactory. It is a pity
the school room is so small. It is large enough for the number of children according to
the Regulations; but for small schools, it should be taken into the account-the desks
and cupboards and boxes take up more than their due proportion of space.

224. Messing. Inspected July 24, 1849.-I wish I could make a favourable report of
this school.

225. Tendring. Inspected July 25, 1849.-Under a nice mistress, rather too young, and
who needs training. The instruction is very limited. No geography or grammar
taught. Fairly instructed in Scripture, which is almost the only subject attempted.

226. Layer-de-la-Haye. Inspected July 26, 1849.-Under an untrained mistress, who
was eight years a pupil at a Colchester National school, three years ago. It is unneces-
sary to say her information is strictly limited. The children are apparently well
behaved, but not well informed; none can write dictation, and only 18 work very
simple sums in Addition. The clergyman is the first resident for a long time, and has
been here only two years. It is to be hoped that now school matters will take a more
favourable turn. The room is a very nice one, but ill ventilated.

227. Brisley. Inspected Aug, 1, 1849.-1. Four classes. 2. Imperfect. 3. Meagre.
5. Wants energy and training. 6. Nice school room, and good house and gardens
for the master. The attainments of the scholars are small, even for a village school.

228. Forncet, St. Mary. Inspected Aug. 2, 1849.- Very fair school. The clergyman is
much interested in its success. The mistress is a nice person, and has perfect control
over the boys of 13 and 14 as of the girls, She needs more instruction; but I have
no doubt this school will ultimately be very excellent, as it is conducted under very
favourable circumstances.

229. Reedham. Inspected Aug. 3, 1849.-A mixed village school. The mistress is fair
for instruction, but has no discipline. She seems anxions to improve herself.

230. Yarmouth. Inspected Aug. 6, 1849.-The ventilation of the Boys' school is very
bad. The master is untrained. The knowledge communicated is very small, and
secular branches are not attempted. The school needs much improvement, and the
clergyman intends to try to effect it. The desks are most awkwardly placed. The
mistress is a shy person, whose training has benefited her little. Instruction defective.
231. Freethorpe. Inspected Aug. 7, 1849.-A village school.

There are too many
children for one teacher and for the size of the room. On the whole, however, the
school is very fairly conducted, and much better than might be expected from the

nature of the village-purely agricultural and remote from any town. Maps and books
have been liberally supplied from Privy Council grant.

282. Burgh Castle. Inspected Aug. 8. 1849.-A nice mixed school, on the dame system,
fairly conducted for a village school, with neat children. Room rather deficient in
ventilation. The arithmetic is fair for the school. Recommend geography. They
have the secular books of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. A singular
beam runs across the room, old oak, with inscription dated 1548.

233. Gorleston and Southtown, Boys'. Inspected Aug. 8, 1849.-The master of the Boys'
school is not, as I think, competent to the management of so large a school. The dis-
cipline is very defective, and the scholars are not well informed, especially the lower
classes; some of them are fine children, and naturally intelligent. The school ought
to be made more efficient. There is a want of books and apparatus and slates, which
may partly account for the defective state of the school.

233. Gorleston and Southtown, Girls'. Inspected Aug. 8, 1849.- The mistress of the
Girls' school is untrained, but a nice active-minded young person, who works more
efficiently than might be expected. The first class read very we:1; but the ciphering
is very moderately done. Geography and secular knowledge much neglected. They
are neat and clean in person, and not wanting in intelligence. Slates and books are
deficient. I recommended an application for pupil-teachers. I could not examine the
Infant school for want of time.

234. Beltom. Inspected Aug. 9, 1849.-A small village school, the master aged 73, and
infirm, without much knowledge.
Books
The children are mostly very young.

and apparatus are wanting. A woman teaches sewing fairly. The arithmetic is a
mere name. The dictation rather surprised me for such a school and such young
children, who are not practised in it.

235. Fritton. Inspected Aug. 9, 1849.-A small village school, opened nine months,
under a mistress. Very nice room and neat children, without much intelligence;
but a useful school for the place, and likely to improve. Children's hair cut short.
Maps of world and Old Testament.

236. Heigham Potter. Inspected Aug. 10, 1849.-The school needs ventilation. The
desks are most inconvenient, being placed all along the room, and too high. Only
two maps of India. No secular books. Discipline imperfect. Children not very intel-
ligent, and mostly young, and very irregular in attendance. It is a purely agricultural
parish. The master wants energy and training, and the school-house needs pointing.
The mistress seems calculated only to teach sewing and very young children. The
clergyman supports the school at an expense of 20%. to 301. per annum. The Clergy
Widow Charity have large estates here, and think they are not justified in giving any
of the funds to support the school.

Tabulated Reports, in detail, on Schools inspected by Rev. M. Mitchell, in 1849-continued.

Number of Children learning

Number of Children learning Number of Children

No. of Child

Arithmetic as far as

Writing on

Paper. Slates.

ren Reading

Number of Children on the Books
aged

In Ordinary Attendance.

Who have left within

the last 12 Months. Admitted within the last 12 Months.

237. Corton.

237. Corton. Inspected Aug. 13, 1849.-A village Dame school, ill'supplied with
books and apparatus; but a new clergyman has come, who intends to enlarge the
school and repair it, and furnish it with necessary books, &c. It will be a long time
before schools of this class obtain a proper position.

238. Herringfleet. Inspected Aug. 14, 1849.-A small village school, in which the
education is only elemental. There are no secular books introduced. The children
are nice and neat, and, for the circumstances, fairly intelligent. The mistress is un-
trained. The school is supported by the Misses Leathes.

239. Lowestoffe, Wylde, Boys'. Inspected Aug. 15, 1849.-The master seems a good
sort of man, but must try to obtain more life and spirit; his discipline is imperfect.
The school has been very well taught by the former master, and is very creditable as
respects information. There is an endowment of 60l. and a play-ground. This and
Arnott's school are next each other, with a door between. It is a great pity they cannot
be united, as each must injure the other, and the funds are not enough to support the
two efficiently.

239. Lowestoffe, Wylde, Girls'. Inspected Aug. 15, 1849.-The mistress of this school
is very promising, though so young, just 18, and the school is well taught in everything
but arithmetic. They seem nice children, but are too timid, and in that respect badly
trained; the discipline induces restraint. Irish books are used. Work is well done;
and there is an intelligent assistant teacher, as old as the mistress, and teaches well.
Books, apparatus, and maps are well found. There is a class-room. The singing is
learnt on the Glover system.

239. Lowestoffe, Wylde, Infants'. Inspected Aug. 15, 1849.-An excellent school,
capitally managed by an untrained mistress, who seems to have a peculiar tact. The
children are in beautiful order, and well taught, and clean, and intelligent. They have
no play-ground or play-time; but here, as in the Girls' school, there seems to be a
stiffness and restraint not pleasing, which I should like to be removed. The children
are too like automata. It is well found in books, and altogether well done. The very
little ones are in a separate class-room under an assistant.

240. Lowestoffe, Arnotts. Inspected Aug. 15, 1849.-The master of this school is a
air disciplinarian. The school has been neglected, and he has been only appointed
six weeks. I proposed numerous alterations, as parallel desks, and secular books, and
pupil-teachers, which are to be taken into consideration by the managers, and will pro-
bably be carried out. There is a press, and the boys are taught printing and shoe-
making on Saturday, in a class-room as large as the school-room. This and the Wylde
school join each other, and should be united.

241. Aldeby. Inspected Aug. 16, 1849.-The school has been closed for two years
for want of funds to support it, and the present master is very inefficient. It was only
re-opened in July, and the children are positively ignorant of everything. The post-
office is in the school. The buildings are in good repair, having been lately made

so. There are no secular books, and scarcely any religious ones. Eight of them can
say the Catechism. The master's salary, 201. per annum, is for himself and wife.
These schools are chiefly supported by the clergyman.

242. Barnaby. Inspected Aug. 20, 1849.-A small village school, of little further use
than to keep the children out of the roads. The mistress is inefficient.

243. Kessingland. Inspected Aug. 22, 1849.-These schools are in two separate cottages,
under an untaught master and mistress. There are few books or slates, and their chief
purpose is to keep children out of the street. The salaries are wretchedly small, and
the clergyman complaius with justice that almost the whole expense falls upon him.

A grant of books and apparatus would be most useful.

244. Lynn, St. Margarets. Inspected Aug. 24, 1849.-There are no books, or maps,
or apparatus. The school is in a wretched state in consequence; but the managers
are building very handsome new rooms, at the expense of 1,600/., and promise to put
everything on the first footing there. They will be opened at Christmas. The boys
are at present taught in the Grammar school. The new ones have been erected in
consequence of Mr. Blandford's visit last year.

245. West Ham. Inspected Aug.27, 1849.-Examined the pupil-teachers. The school
is much the same as when last inspected; but the fear of cholera which prevailed in
the neighbourhood caused great anxiety and dispiritedness. The day was very hot,
and the master had been laid up with the complaint. The school is quite as good as,
under these circumstances, could be expected. I think the master too much of a dis-
ciplinarian, a sort of quietest. His pupil-teachers are well taught.

246. Great Warley. Inspected Sept. 24, 1849.-A neat country school; mostly
girls under 11 years of age, neat and clean. The work is very nicely done. The
reading is very fair for an agricultural village school. There is little more than the
name of ciphering; but they can answer fairly simple questions in mental arithmetic;
the writing only extends to the name. The buildings are in good repair, and well
calculated for the purpose. The mistress is a tidy person, of the old school.

247. Romford. Inspected Sept. 25, 1849.-The room is good; the gallery is too
high. The mistress untrained, and her strength is hardly equal to so many children,
who are neat and clean, and healthy-looking, but rather disorderly. There have been
five deaths in the school from cholera. There is a nice young girl as assistant. The
room is temporarily used as a chapel till the new church is completed. The supply of
books aud apparatus is very meagre.

248. Hainault Forest. Inspected Sept. 26, 1849.-This is a new school on the
borders of the forest. They are nice children, but have not as yet made much pro-
gress. The mistress seems to have partly neglected her work, but appears to be equal
to a better situation. The room is very good. There is a deficiency of books and ap-
paratus. It is scarcely more than an Infant school.

Character of Instruction

in each Class.

Number present al
Examination.

Mensuration.

Algebra.

Linear Drawing.

Geometry.

Vocal Music, from Notes.

Geography.

Fractions and
Decimals.

Compound Rules

and Reduction.

Grammur.

Proportion and
Practice.

History.

Division.

Addition.

Numeration or
Notation.

Composition.

Abstracts or

Composition.

From Copies.

From Dietation

Abstracts or

or Memory.

From Copies.
Books of General
Information.

Holy

Scriptures.

Easy Narratives.

Monosylinbles.

Letters and

9 10 11 12 13

Tabulated Reports, in detail, on Schools inspected by Rev. M. Mitchell, in 1849-continued.

Number of Children learning Number of Children learning Number of Children

Arithmetic as far as

Writing on

Paper. Slates.

In ordinary Attendance.

Who have left within the last 12 Months Admitted within the

last 12 Months.

234. Hesset.

Boys'.

47

.

1 10

7

11

3 13

249. Witham, Boys'. Inspected Sept. 27, 1849.-1. In four classes. 2. Fair. 5. Too
young, and seems to want method. 6. The boys have just returned from the holidays.
The instruction is only moderate. (Books and apparatus)-good. (Desks and furniture)
-parallel, and in squares.

249. Witham, Girls'. Inspected Sept. 27, 1849.-2. Fair. 6. Great exertions must
be made by all parties in the school to advance the instruction, which is not so good
as it ought to be where there are two pupil-teachers. (Desks and furniture)-I do not
like the arrangement of the desk down the middle of the school.

249. Witham, Infants'. Inspected Sept. 27, 1849.-The mistress is a nice person.
There should be more pietures and small books.

250. Maldon. Inspected Sept. 28, 1849.-The rooms are very large, and the build-
ings very good, indeed too much so for the place. There is a want of books and appa-
ratus. The master is not a very good teacher, and the mistress might be improved.
They were opened in February. The floor of the Infant school is wood; of the others,
brick.

251. Stoneham Aspal. Inspected Oct. 1, 1849.-1. Three classes. 2. Fair. 5. The
mistress was stung by a wasp during the examination. 6. It is little more than an
Infant school. The school has only just opened after the holidays of five weeks, and
the notice sent was by accident unopened, the clergyman being absent from home,
so that the school was taken unawares. (Books and apparatus)-Recommend. Reading
"Disentangled" and the "Child's Arithmetic." (Desks and furniture)-the benches
are rather too high for the children.

252. Stowmarket, Boys'. Inspected Oct. 2, 1849.--The attendance is very irregular,
and most of the children are very young; still, for a town school, each of them is very
inferior. In the Boys' school very few can read more than monosyllables, and imper-
fectly. The dictation is very moderate, and the ciphering, excepting with four or five
boys, only a name. It is a brick floor. The master is a good sort of man, but much too
quiet, and wanting in energy and method. The classes are in square forms, and the
The Irish Third and Fourth Books are used.
desk round the room.
252. Stowmarket, Girls'. Inspected Oct. 2, 1849.-Is in much the same condition,
only more young children. The arithmetic is only a name, and the dictation hardly
The mistress gives promise of better things. They want maps. This room is
boarded. The payments are 1d. per week. There is no Infants' school,

more.

253. Woolpit, Mixed. Inspected Oct. 3, 1849.-Two separate schools under the same roof, divided by a partition, each under a mistress and daughter. This school is inferior to the other, but a fair Dame school.

253. Woolpit, Mixed. Inspected Oct. 3, 1849.-This is a very nice school, on the same

(d) Cut out and make clothes,

The

plan with children of a better class, who are remarkably neat, nice children, and fairly advanced; their work is very good. The copy-books are particularly neat. history, geography, and grammar are not very extensive.

253. Woolpit, Infants'. Inspected Oct. 3, 1849.-The scarlet fever has been very pre-
valent, and thinned the numbers.

254. Hesset, Boys'. Inspected Oct. 3, 1849.-It has only been open 18 months, and in
a very rural hamlet. A little more life is wanting in the master, and perhaps instrue-
tion. The teaching is very simple, and extends only to the New Testament and the
Catechism. The desks and forms are much too large for children, though said to be
according to the Privy Council pattern. They are parallel, Hecommend Irish books,
"Child's Arithmetic," and some maps, of which there are none. Advise mental
arithmetic.

255. Horningsheath. Inspected Oct. 4, 1849.-1. There is rather a want of method.
3. Not particular. 5. Seems a nice person; nervous; a little more life and
2. Fair.
energy would be desirable, 6. There has been a great deal of scarlet fever in the
school. The children are neat and well-behaved. (Books and apparatus)-Irish books.
(Desks and furniture)-inconvenient, but to be altered. Want parallel desks.

256. Great Welnethan. Inspected Oct. 4, 1849.-A small village school, just opened,
under a young untrained mistress; promises well. Little more than Sunday-school
at present attempted. Scripture knowledge very good.

257. Bury St. Edmond's, Boys'. Inspected Oct. 5, 1849.-This large school is very
well conducted, as regards discipline and general instruction, as far as is attempted.
The lower classes are particularly good and advanced. The ciphering is very good, and
The dictation should be more attended to. They sing very well.
the reading.
Geography and grammar are not strong. There is a want of secular books and maps.
The building is airy and lofty, and without echo. The desks are round the room, and
the classes in squares, and with old and shapeless furniture. The master has the
peculiar faculty of keeping alive and attentive the whole of his hoys; and the lower
classes are quite as well attended to as the upper. It appears to me that to masters
of such schools the gratuity mentioned in Minutes of Committee should be offered.

257. Bury St. Edmond's. Girls'. Inspected Oct. 5, 1849.-A large school, but ill-ven"
tilated; nice neat room. The instruction is not advanced, and there are no secular books
except Davy's "History of England." They work very well. The dictation is very
moderate, and also the ciphering. Desk round the room, Mistress seems a nice
person, and questions very fairly.

257. Bury St. Edmond's, Infants'. Inspected Oct. 5, 1849.-A very nice school, under an excellent mistress, and will make progress.

mond's. Boys

1 to 7.

Girls'

1 to 5. 96 5 6 130

Infants'

176

.