The attendances of each child during the year. Another column is required in schools attended by half-timers, who should be distinguished by the insertion of 'H' (half-timer under any Act) or 'R' (rural half-timer), etc., after their names. register for each class may be marked by the Pupil Teacher (if he have completed his second year) having charge of the class, but the Head Teacher must always be responsible for its being regularly and properly kept. In marking the attendance registers, the following rules should be observed :: 1. The registers must be marked and finally closed at least two hours before the termination of the time given to the secular instruction at each meeting of the school, and at the time specified on the approved time-table. 2. After the registers are closed, no child may be marked. 3. Every child must be marked at each meeting of the school 4. In ink, never in pencil inked over afterwards. 5. Presence must be marked with a long stroke, thus, /. 6. Absence must be marked with an 'a,' or 's' sick, or 'w' weather, or 'h' home circumstances, or otherwise, as the case may be. 7. There must be no dots. 8. No erasures. If any error has been made, it must be corrected by a footnote. 9. No blanks. 10. If a child leaves before the two hours of secular instruction expire, its mark for presence should be cancelled by another stroke across it thus X. 11. Registers must be original, and not copied from slates, papers, etc., on pretence of keeping them clean, or any other plea. 12. The number of attendances made by the class should be entered at the foot of the column every morning and afternoon at the time of closing the registers. 13. The number of attendances made by each child during the week must be entered. 14. When a half or whole holiday occurs, or (in England [Sentence continued on page 92. SPECIMEN OF THE EXAMINATION SCHEDULE. To be filled up by the Managers, and to be ready on the day fixed for the Examination. LIST OF SCHOLARS on whose Account a Grant is claimed for the Year ending Article 13). Certificate to be signed by the Managers and Teachers of the School. We, the undersigned Teachers, certify, each for our own School, the following entries to be correct in every instance. ..... .Teacher of Boys' School. We, the undersigned, certify that we have carefully verified, firstly, a sufficient number (taken at hazard) of these tained in column V.a. Entries by the original Registers to satisfy us of the accuracy of the Return, and secondly, each of the exceptions con Managers; or (in Board Schools) Clerk of the School Board, or three Managers appointed under section 15 of the Education Act, 1870. Directions to the Managers. 1. No Day Scholar may be entered, who, on the last day of the School year, was under four or over eighteen years of 2. Exceptions.-150 attendances (Article 20) qualify for examination (a) Scholars attending School under any Half-time Act. (b) Scholars above ten, (1.) Attending School under any half-time certificate granted by a (2.) In districts where there is no School Board, certified by the managers (c) Scholars who reside two miles, or upwards, from the School. If any child has not made 150 attendances, as a half-timer, he must not be entered in the schedule unless he has made 250 attendances. Enter a, b1, b2, or c respectively, in column V.a, opposite the names of scholars attending under the corresponding section of Art. 20. 3. Children under 7 years of age must be entered together after all the rest in the same School, under a line. 4. No Evening Scholar is qualified for entry who is under twelve or over twenty-one years of age, or has attended, in the evening only, 40 times within the year. 5. Leave columns III. and IV. blank. 6. See Supplementary Rules. * Omit the figure of the Disregard day of month. century; enter 70 for 1870. Indicate the month by its number; enter 9 for September. + When children are received from another School, the managers must inform themselves in what standard (if any) they were last examined. Inspector.-Enter a cross (X) for pass, and (O) for failure; cancel the name in case of absence. § Including in the case of scholars whose names are underlined · attendances lost in consequence of the School having been used as a polling place (see Form IX., page 1). No name is to be underlined unless (1) the scholar was under instruction in the School the week before it was used as a polling place; and (2) the scholar's attendance would otherwise fall short of 250, or 150. EXTRACTS FROM MANAGERS' RETURN (FORM IX.). To be filled up by the Teacher. By a Mixed Boys' School is meant a School under a Master, in which Girls are instructed with Boys. By a ¶ Attendances may not be reckoned (for the purpose of a grant) for any Scholar in a Day-school under three or above eighteen years of age. Not including any attendances claimed under the Ballot Act, 1872. + Attending School in a rural district. |