The figures must be well formed, and the sums worked methodically and as good models for children to imitate. 1. As in First Year. Second Year. 2. Simple and Compound Interest. SEWING AND CUTTING OUT. First Year. To cut out and make parts of a shirt, or any other plain garment in common use. Second Year. The work of a needlewoman in various branches applicable to the family of a working man. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. First Year. 1. Clothing, including questions on Needlework. 2. Food. 3. Cooking. 4. Laundry. 1. As in First Year. Second Year. 2. Household expenses, and investment of money. 3. Practical rules for the preservation of health. NOTE. Only a per-centage of the marks for this paper will be given in the case of those students (of both years) who do not present a certificate signed by the superintendent, to the effect that she is satisfied with their practical proficiency in some specified portion of the work usually comprehended under the name of industrial training. VOCAL MUSIC. First Year. 1. Notation: The treble and bass staves, and the relation between them. 2. Time: Simple common, and simple triple. 3. The scales, major and minor; with the intervals (major and minor, perfect or other) found in both, and the chromatic intervals found in the latter. 4. Transposition from one key to another; and transcription from one variety of time to another (as from to 2). Second Year. 1. Notation: The alto and tenor staves, and their relations to the treble and bass. 2. Time: Compound common and compound triple. 3. Classification of intervals, as perfect and imperfect, consonant and dissonant. 4. Resolution of individual dissonant intervals. 5. Rudiments of harmony: Positions of chords; progression; inversion; discords by suspension (on fundamental basses only); the discord of the dominant seventh (in its direct form only). NOTE.-A paper on this subject is not given to any student about to leave the Training College, who has not passed the Musical Inspector's examination in practical skill. Acting teachers who take this paper must produce a certificate from some competent person (such as the organist of their church) that they have "such an amount of musical skill, vocal or instrumental, as is sufficient for the pur"pose of teaching children to sing from notes." 66 DRAWING. [N.B.-This exercise does not form part of the December examination. Annual examinations, in drawing only, are held at each of the Training Colleges under inspection some time in November, and at the various local drawing schools in connexion with the Department of Science and Art, at times to be learned from the masters of those schools. The value of the exercises is marked, and the marks carried to each candidate's total, for a certificate under this Syllabus.] * The series of exercises prescribed in the Art Directory of the Department of Science and Art for a Drawing Certificate of the Second Grade. SPECIAL SUBJECTS. Additional marks will be given to a Student for success in one of the following subjects, provided that she passes for a Certificate, according to this Syllabus, without counting such special subject. I. LANGUAGE. A paper in (1.) Latin, (2.) French, and (3.) German will be set for each year, and candidates who do not take a Science Subject, may take one of these languages. Students will be examined in those languages only for which a special course of instruction is provided in the Time Table of their College. *For information respecting the examinations in Science and Art, and for copies of the Science and Art Directories, application may be made to "The Secretary, Science and Art Department, South Kensington, London, W." ļ First Year. This paper will contain grammatical questions, and easy passages* in prose for translation into English. Second Year. This paper will contain harder passages† (in poetry as well as prose) for translation into English with questions upon the construction of particular sentences. II. SCIENCE EXAMINATIONS. See Extracts from Minute of 17th January, 1878. At Whitehall, the 17th day of January, 1878. BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS OF THE COMMITTEE 1. The Lords of the Committee of Council on Education consider the subject of Science Instruction in Training Colleges. They believe that the time has arrived when a special examination should be instituted at a period of the year better adapted to the Training Colleges than May; and that the nature of the examination and the payments made on the results should be modified to suit the circumstances of those Colleges. 2. They therefore determine that in future a special examination in Science shall be held in Training Colleges in December, immediately before the ordinary Christmas Examination. 3. The examination will not be open to Acting Teachers. It will be held in those subjects only for which a special course of instruction is provided in the time table of the College, and will be conducted by one of Her Majesty's Inspectors, or by an officer of the Science and Art Department. 4. No student in a Training College will be allowed to attend the May examinations of the Science and Art Department. 5. The examination will be confined to the following nine subjects: 1. Mathematics. 2. Theoretical Mechanics. 3. Applied Mechanics. 4. Acoustics, Light and Heat. * In 1879 the passages will be taken from Cæsar de Bello Gallico, Book IV., Chap. 1-38 (omitting Chap. 17), Virgil's Eneid, Book VI., Madame de Staël's Le Directoire, Racine's Iphigénie, Sybel's Prinz Eugen von Savoyen, and Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea. † Acting teachers who attend the Christmas Examination will receive additional marks for any two of the specified subjects, in which they may have obtained a first or second class, in the Advanced Stage or in Honours, at one of the May Examinations held by the Science and Art Department. 5. Magnetism and Electricity. 6. Inorganic Chemistry, including Practical Chemistry. 8. Elementary Botany. 9. Physiography. 6. No student will be permitted to take up more than two subjects in any one year. Women will not be permitted to take more than one subject in a year. 7. The examination (except for Mathematics) will be based on the syllabus of the several subjects given in the Science Directory. But the two stages, Elementary and Advanced, will be treated as a whole-one paper only being set. These examination papers will be framed much as the present May papers are framed, that is to say, with a certain number of compulsory questions and a certain number of optional questions, some of the latter being more difficult, and more highly marked than the rest. Questions will also be set on the method of teaching various branches of the subject. 8. The successful students will be placed in the 1st or 2nd Class, the Standard for a 2nd Class being as high as that of a good 2nd Class in the present Advanced Stage, and for the 1st Class of a good 1st Class in the Advanced Stage. 9. All students who pass will be registered as qualified to earn payments on results and will receive certificates, but no prizes will be given. |