Inspection Reports of 1936 and 1939

Remarks by H.M.I. Mr Smith from the Board of Education Report, October 1936

"As in many other schools the work here has been seriously interrupted by the absence of children suffering from measles during the last term. The Headmistress secures a good level of profiency in reading and oral english in her class. The children dramatise their stories in an easy and natural way and converse easily and intelligently. On the other hand the arithmetic in this class is particularly weak. Neither the lesson heard or the result of a small test set at the inspection was satisfactory. It is also not clear why all the children should be given fresh exercise books before they have filled their old ones. In Class 2 the elder children can read reasonably well and their is evidence of group working lower down. As in Class 1 the work in number is not satisfactory and there is need for more varied apparatus wherewith to teach the subject. the classes are combined for singing, they should be taken separately. A suitable timetable should be submitted forthwith for approval."

 

Report by H.M.I. Mr A.B.Adams, 20th February 1939

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