In ordinary Attendance.

Who have left within

the last 12 Months. Admitted within the

last 12 Months.

Character of Instruction

in each Class.

Swansea, N. S.

Boys'...1 to 9 g. 179

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26

26

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(b) Make clothes.

(c) Not from notes.

(a) Sew or knit.

tained. Much looked after by the vicar, who commonly opens the school with prayers.
Sometimes, but rarely, replaced by his curate. No corporeal punishment used. 3. The
ordinary methods used in the Westminster training-school. 4. Good, the master having
been well trained, and the mistress intelligent, but not very extensive as yet, the schools
having been opened only six months at the date of inspection. 5. The master is an in-
telligent, active man, and is going in for the certificate examination. The mistress will
also go in for the examination at some future period. Both highly respectable in per-
sonal appearance, and well spoken of by the vicar and committee. 6. These are
highly promising schools, worked up strenuously by the vicar and committee. Build-
ings peculiarly good. Children healthy, considering the dirty nature of the staple trade
of the town-copper smelting, and coal.

Swansea, Infant.-Inspected 7th March, 1849. 1. Under a mistress and five monitors.
2. Very good, children quiet and cheerful; no unnecessary harshness displayed. 3. Partly
by books, but much by oral instruction. Singing good. Apparatus quite sufficient. 4. Fair;
explanations good; gallery lessons well given, both by mistress and one of the monitors
-a candidate for pupil-teacher. 5. Mistress an Irishwoman, of good appearance, trained
at the Home and Colonial Schools; bears a good character as a teacher; active and in-
telligent. 6. Room very large, lofty, cheerful, and well ventilated; kept perfectly
clean, and quiet for an infant school. Condition of the school, in general, satisfactory.
Swansea, York Place, Girls'.-Inspected 19th February, 1849. 1. The order of placing
the children excellent, with forms and flat tables, slightly semicircular; divided into ra-
ther too few classes. 2. Very good, and kept apparently with great kindness. The manners
of the children peculiarly good. 3. Somewhat old fashioned. 4. Good in the main,
but not so good in arithmetic and grammar as could be desired. 5. Taught by a mis-
tress, a respectable person, who has been there 30 years, and has been presented
with a testimonial in consequence. 6. In want of more numerous copies of books, and
deficient in apparatus. Much excellent needlework done in the school. School stated
by the managers to be a Church of England school now, though founded originally by
dissenters; but not under the parochial clergy.

Swansea, York Place, Infant.-Inspected 9th March, 1819. 1. Under anassistant teacher
and two monitors. 2. Fair, considering the tender age of some of the children. 3. The
usual methods, but hardly carried out for want of more teachers. 4. Fair. 5. The
teacher an amiable and diligent young person, rather too young (16) for her office, and
not instructed enough; but good in managing the children. 6. The room much too
small, though cheerful, well ventilated, and warmed. Everything kept clean, and in
tolerable order. School closed with prayer and singing. If two good teachers, or one
experienced teacher, and two active pupil teachers, were appointed for this school, its
condition would be much improved. Some of the children were so young, that they
could hardly speak plain.

Tenby, N. S., Boys'.-Inspected 5th March, 1849. 1. Under a master and four moni
tors. A committee superintends, and the vicar and curate visit. 2. Indifferent, owing
to want of experience on the part of the master. 3. Improvement required; no good
order observed; school noisy; boys not well classed as to their lessons. 4. Tolerable,
though not so far advanced as it might be. Writing very bad throughout the school, the
boys being made to write in bad copy-books. 5. Master active, and willing, but deficient
in experience. 6. Building in the old castle; airy, cheerful, well ventilated; deficient in
a class-room. More apparatus wanted. The main defect of the school is want of order
and proper method.

Tenby, Girls'.-Inspected 5th March, 1849. 1. Under a mistress and four monitors. 2. Irregular; badly maintained from want of experience. 3. Unsatisfactory, from want of

an infant school; this interferes with the work, and causes disturbance; class-room and lobby wanted. Out-buildings of both schools, and master's house, fair.

Tenby, Infant.-Inspected 22nd February, 1849. 1. Under a mistress and assistant,
aided by monitors, three of whom were examined as candidates for pupil-teachers. A
committee of ladies and gentlemen superintend. 2. Mild, children unusually cheerful;
said to be always anxious to come to school, and the parents satisfied. 3. The usual
methods, with two galleries and a class-room. 4. Coming up to a fair average for infants.
5. The head mistress a young woman of superior education, regularly trained in the
Home and Colonial schools-is very methodical and prompt in her instruction; com-
municates in a clear and becoming manner; much loved by the children. Monitors
and assistant good. 6. This is more than an infant school, children of 12 and 13 years
of age frequent it; the building is rather small for the numbers received.

Trawsfynydd.-Inspected 28th August, 1849.-1. Under one master; no mistress; no
monitors: in two divisions. A: farmers' children who pay weekly or quarterly. B
labourers' children who come free, at expense of the rector. A, containing 14 boys and
4 girls, is subdivided into two classes for reading. B: containing 30 boys, forms a mis-
cellaneous class, with each child learning a separate lesson or nearly so. Much objected
to and condemned by the rector. 2. Fair; children well disposed, but no drilling, nor,
properly speaking, school orders observed. 3. Bad. 4. A: first class read Bible, mira.
cles and parabies; arithmetic-proportion, fractions, and interest. Second class read
Testament miracles and parables; arithmetic--long division and practice. First and
second write on paper, and learn a little geography; one boy very intelligent, and study-
ing Goldsmith's grammar and geography. The free boys do not in general learn arith-
metic nor writing, but a few do. 5. Master, aged 44, not trained; was once a servant
to Mr. Williams, M.P. for Coventry; bears a good character from the rector for industry,
good temper, and cheerfulness. Salary 15., paid by the rector for the free boys, and 137.
paid by pupils who are farmers' sons. No house. 6. Children fairly clad, consider-
ing the peculiar circumstances of so remote a parish."

Uzmaston and Boulston. Inspected 5th September, 1849. 1. Organized under a master,
in four classes, with three pupil teachers. Parallel desks along the room. Classes some.
times brought down into squares. 2. Discipline good; no undue noise. 3. Methods
fair; good explanations and questions afterwards. 4. Instruction good, as far as it goes,
but books of secular reading greatly wanted in the school, where the Bible is made the
reading book. 5. The master holds a third-class certificate, and is an active man. 6.
The school-room is new and good, and with the master's residence, as well as all the out-
houses, is commodious, clean, and in good condition.

Warren, Agricultural School.-Inspected 26th February, 1849. 1. Organized under a
master, in two divisions, boys and girls; but the children arranged in classes of both
sexes. They sit separately on parallel desks. Boys till a small farm of four acres, for
three hours daily, and are in school three hours and a half; girls work meanwhile. 2.
Fairly maintained without corporeal punishment; rather quick and sharp. 3. Usual
methods adopted. Master and three monitors. Master clear in his explanations. 4.
Very good in music and arithmetic, and fair in other subjects. New reading books are
wanted, and some more apparatus, especially globes and black boards. 5. No mistress.
The master a quick and intelligent man, good in arithmetic and music from notes;
fair in grammar, good in writing. Wants extended study in other points. 6. Children
very cheerful and healthy. School founded and sustained by Lord and Lady Cawdor,
and superintended by the Rev. James Allen, of Castle Martin. The farming arrange-
ments are good, and out-buildings convenient.

Tabulated Report, in detail, on the Schools Inspected in Wales-continued.

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1. Organization.

2. Discipline.

3. Methods.

4. Instruction.

5. Master and Mistress.

6. Special.

General Report for 1848-9, by Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, JOSEPH FLETCHER, Esq., on British and Denominational Schools.*

CONTENTS.

OCCUPATION of time during the past year and a half

Wesleyan Schools on the Glasgow plan, a new class

Character of their support, compared with that of British schools
Ages of the children in each class of schools

259

259

261

Character, training, and methods of the teachers in the Wesleyan Schools Experience of their system, and views of the Wesleyan Education Committee upon it

Instruction which it conveys to the promoters of every class of schools for the education of the poorer classes

Extensive effect of the employment of Pupil-Teachers upon the organization and efficiency of each class of schools

Want of logical purpose in the present education of the faculties by collective

lessons

Moral yet greater than intellectual progress, with the aid of pupil-teachers
Satisfactory progress of the pupil-teachers themselves

Ability of teachers, and means of making their certificates a more exact test of it,
as educators

Operation of grants in augmentation of teachers' salaries .

Reasons why it is not universally adopted

Good results of the present system of public aid to popular education

264

266

Its actual adoption more extensive than that of the system of grants for building. 286
Table of the pupil-teacher schools, their apprentices and children
Neglect of their Lordships' provisions for stipendiary monitors.
Proposed use of them to the general elevation of second-rate schools, especially in
the districts most needing aid, which are least affected by those for pupil-

teachers Peculiar claims of Welsh Schools, of a nearly self-supporting character Peculiar claims of Ragged Schools, with no self-supporting element Proposal for the compulsory education and deportation of juvenile vagrants Completion of statistical investigation pursued in former reports, as to the moral results of popular education as now conducted.

Map of gross commitments for six years, showing excess in the metropolitan and western counties of England

Remaining excess in the Southern and Eastern agricultural counties, especially those with domestic manufactures, and in the manufacturing districts Concentration or dispersion does not necessarily or invariably affect the proportion of commitments, though there is a general coincidence of their excess with concentration. Excess of crime in the metropolis, the South Midland and Eastern agricultural counties, and the more Southern manufacturing counties, and especially those with domestic or dispersed manufactures Excess of real property in proportion to population rather coincident with, than opposed to, excess of crime

Higher organization of rural industry which appears to coincide with the greater

amount of crime.

301

301

302

302

303

Necessity, therefore, for higher moral character coincidently with enlarged agricultural as enlarged manufacturing industry

304

* Being those in which the authorized version of the Scriptures is daily used, whether without Catechisms, on the principles of the British and Foreign School Society, or with them, on those of the several Protestant denominations which admit to their schools children exempted, on the requisition of their parents, from learning such Catechisms.