Tabulated Reports by Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, Rev. W. J. Kennedy, in the North Western District-continued.
Number of Children learning
Number of Children learning Number of Children No. of Children
Number of Children on the Books aged
Books of General Information.
Holy Scriptures,
Easy Narratives.
Monosyllabes.
Letters and
In ordinary Attendance.
the last 12 Months. Admitted within the
Who have left within
last 12 Months.
20 31 20 20 35 30 10 11 16 17 911 6 6 29 36 80
17 35 17 17 39 26 261021 12 13 6 3 3 24 24 75
59 26 31 23 41 41 18 35 60 21 28 22 2 1 2 2 32 170 108 3
Rev. W. J. Kennedy's General Report.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 3. Methods.
1. Organization. Bickerstaffe.-Inspected 28th March, 1849. 1. Boys' and girls' schools, conducted on the same system, are both taught in open classes, on loose benches, and also in 3. Just this peculiarity, viz., that there desks, on a gallery. 2. Good. 4. Fair. is perhaps more attention to prayers and to singing than is generally to be seen. He was trained at Chester. He seems a man of fair 5. Has not been here long. attainments and skill, but is, I fear, weak in health. The mistress is from Whitelands, and is a pleasing person. 6. These schools are more complete in their arrangements, in their supplies of apparatus and books, and generally in their whole equipment and tournure than any schools I have seen. In these respects the schools, playgrounds, and teachers' residences are models. This is chiefly to be attributed to the good taste of the clergyman, Mr. Abraham, who, however, has been most handsomely supported by the Earl of Derby. The Earl gave 500l. for the teachers' residences alone. Some. thing also is attributable, perhaps, to the taste of the first master from St. Mark's. The boys' school is suffering from the effects of changes of masters.
Ormskirk, Boys'.-Vicar's School.-Inspected 29th March, 1849. 1. The children are arranged in open classes, on loose benches. There are desks along the wall, at which they write, and there is a master's desk. 2. Effective. 3. The children are taught in the usual way. 4. Very fair in amount. 5. The master is a young man from St. Mark's College, who appears to be getting on very nicely. 6. Great pains are taken with this school by the clergy. The room was remarkably neat and clean when I saw it and I was informed by the clergyman that he intended to build appeared very wholesome. a much better room if he were allowed the advantages offered in the Minutes of Council of 1846, &c. For aught I could see, the school is deserving of such aid.
Ormskirk, Girls'.-Vicar's School.-Inspected 29th March, 1849. 1. This school is arranged for open classes, on loose benches, and also has parallel desks on a gallery. 2. Pretty good. 3. The ordinary methods are pursued. 5. The mistress is rather a pleasing young woman. 6. The curate of Ormskirk, Mr. Blenkinsopp, takes great pains with the girls, especially in teaching arithmetic to them. The present room, like that of the boys' school, is not perhaps all that could be desired. There is a nice infant school under the girls' school, but I did not examine it particularly. In the three schools there were 260 children.
Waterloo.-Inspected 30th March, 1849. 1. Open classes on loose benches. There is a long desk in the boys' school, at which the children write; when writing, the Girls are taught writing by the master, and at present children look into the room. arithmetic also. 2. Adequate. 4. Moderate. The school is new, and indeed, the whole district is new, but will probably become large and important. 3. Those usually pursued; aud there is no peculiarity, except those mentioned under the 1st head. 5. I was pleased with both master and mistress; they are neither very ex- perienced, but may succeed, with study and pains. 6. This is a convenient watering- place for Liverpool and the neighbourhood, which has recently come into vogue. The district seems likely to become populous.
Granby-row.-Girls'.-Inspected 2nd April, 1849. 1. Open classes, and parallel desks. 2. Moderate. 3. Ordinary 4. Moderate. 5. Appears to me to be inadequate to the school which ought to exist here."
Eccles, Bromhouse-lane-Inspected 6th October, 1849. 1. Four classes, partly in desks, and partly on the flour. 2. Fair, and order improved. 3. Ordinary. 5. A young
man trained at Battersea. 6. There is an improvement in this school since January last. The desks and benches are much better arranged, and there are four classes instead of eight, which, in a school of 52 children, is manifestly an arrangement for the I am told that the population is rural, and children in such a district are not I hope, however, to see the generally so intelligent as the population of a town. attainments of the children greater than they are at present. Books and apparatus- sufficient supply of both. Desks and furniture-master's desk; two sets of parallel desks, three deep each; loose benches and closet-seats; writing-desks round the walls; clock; two fire places; folding doors.
Malew (Castletown), Boys'.-Inspected 8th September, 1849. 1. Open classes. Better 3. Ordinary. 5. A middle-aged man, of organization is required. 2. Moderate. moderate qualifications. Books and apparatus-moderate supply. Some good copy- slips are wanted. Desks and furniture-master's desk; writing-desks along the wall. There is a want of benches for the classes.
Malew (Castletown), Girls'.-Inspected 8th September, 1849. 1. Five open classes. 2. Fair. 3. Ordinary. 5. Seems a pleasing young woman. 6. Ventilation might be Books and apparatus-fair supply of both. Some copy-slips would improved, I think. be useful. Desks and furniture-mistress's desk; louse benches; writing desks. Ashton-under-Lyne, Christ Church, Boys'.-Inspected 3rd April, 1849. 1. Open classes on loose benches, and parallel desks on a gallery. There is an orgau. 2. Mode- rate, but the district is rough and rude. 3. Ordinary. 4. Moderate, but all is new here. 5. The master is a well disposed, but not clever young man, who was for some time at the Westminster Institution. 6. This district is steeped in poverty, is very rude, aud abounds in socialism. The clergyman does all that man can do for the schools, but he is shamefully supported, or rather, not supported at all; indeed, he evidently works too hard. The Pastoral Aid, or the Curate's Aid Society ought to give him a curate, which would be a great help to the school, as well as to the other parts of the parish. Ashton-under-Lyne, Christ Church.-Girls'.-Inspected 3rd April, 1849. This school is too wretched in all respects to be worthy of detailed notice. What is wanted is a good mistress, and funds wherewith to pay her.
Chorlton-on-Medlock, St. Saviour's, Boys'.-Inspected 4th April, 1849. 1. Open classes on benches. Double writing-desks, and an infant gallery. A door opens from the boys' into the girls' schoo!. The infant gallery is coutinued along in the girls' school, and the master reads prayers to both schools from the doorway. 2. Effective, though the master is perhaps a little rough. The clergyman, however, to whom I mentioned this point, says that the boys are attached to the master. 3. Those almost universally pur- Great pains are taken with the sued, with little or no peculiarity. 4. Very fair. writing, which is very good. 5. Is a self-educated man; uncouth, but above the average. He appears to possess one element of success, viz., that he is devoted to his work, and takes a pleasure and a pride in it. 6. This is a successful school. The district is evidently far above many in wealth.
Chorlton on Medlock, St. Saviour's, Girls'.-Inspected 4th April, 1849. 1. Precisely as in the boys' school. 2. Good. 3. Ordinary. 4. Very fair. 5. Much above the average in appearance, manners, intelligence, and aptitude to teach. She does not discredit her certificate.
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Numeration or Notation.
Composition.
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Books of General
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Information.
Easy Narratives. Letters and
Holy Scriptures.
Monosyllables.
In ordinary Attendance.
Who have left within
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