SCHOOLS IN CONNEXION WITH ESTABLISHED CHURCH. General Report, by J. Gordon, Esq., with special Reports appended, on Aberdeen By H. M. Inspector of Schools, Rev. H. Moseley. 1. Report on proposed scheme for formation of Teachers' Mutual Assurance REPORTS ON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS (continued.) ENGLAND. EAST MIDLAND DISTRICT.-General Report, by Rev. J. J. BLANDFORD. SOUTH EASTERN DISTRICT.-General Report, by Rev. W. H. BROOKFIELD, NORTH WESTERN DISTRICT.-General Report, by Rev. W. J. Kennedy. WALES. SOUTHERN AND CENTRE COUNTIES.-General Report, by Rev. H. LONGUE VILLE JONES, General Report, for the years 1848 and 1849, by Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, the Rev. J. J. BLANDFORD, on the Schools inspected by him in the East Midland District of England, comprising the Counties of Derby, Huntingdon, Leicester, Lincoln, Northampton, Nottingham, and Rutland; also on certain Schools situated in the Counties of Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Lancaster. MY LORDS, I HAVE the honor to present to your Lordships a Report on the schools which I have inspected in the counties of Derby, Huntingdon, Leicester, Lincoln, Northampton, Nottingham, Rutland, Lancaster, Cambridge, Norfolk, and Suffolk. The schools in the four last-mentioned counties are not included in my district, but I have reported on them in the usual way, having received instructions to visit them in reference to the examination of candidates for pupil-teachers. I have not been able, therefore, to visit so many schools in my own district, as I otherwise should have done. The schools on which I have reported in the East Midland District are chiefly those whose managers had made application for pupil-teachers, or schools where pupil-teachers had been already apprenticed, who required to be examined, and the state of the school reported, in order to the fulfilment of the conditions of the indentures. I have now to offer some remarks in reference to the state of those schools in my district which are liable to inspection, as having received aid from the Committee of Council on Education, or which have invited such inspection; and I wish it to be understood that the favourable report that I have made of some of them is to be taken in a limited sense, and in no respect is the idea intended to be conveyed, that any one of these schools, thus favourably mentioned, is not susceptible of much further improvement, both in regard to the character of the instruction given therein, and in the methods of imparting it. DERBYSHIRE. In this county there are 88 schools under inspection. Of these 30 are double schools, where boys and girls are taught in separate rooms, but in the same building under a master and mistress; 34 mixed; 7 infants; and 17 single. The greater part are situated in the middle and southern parts of the county. In the northern part there are but few schools under inspection; and these are of such a character as to minister very imperfectly to the educational wants of the population for whose benefit they have been established. |