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PART III.

APPENDICES.

SESSION OF 1884-5.

APPENDIX A.

REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL OF THE NORMAL SCHOOL FOR THE SESSION ENDED MAY, 1885.

WILLIAM CROCKET, ESQ., A. M.,

Chief Superintendent of Education,

Fredericton.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit, for the information of the Education Department, my Report on the Provincial Normal School for the year 1884-5.

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as follows, viz. :—

The above total includes the students of the French Department.

The different Counties of the Province were represented in the above enrolment

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By Religious Denominations the students enrolled were classified as below:—

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In explanation of the unprecedently large number of students enrolled during the year, it is proper to remark that the Board of Education was pleased to order that the Annual Session should be divided into two terms the first beginning on the first Wednesday in August and closing on the Friday preceding the week in which Christmas falls; the second beginning on January 3rd and ending on the last Friday in May. At the beginning of the second term the Senior Class was admitted, consisting of students who had been in attendance a full term previously.

The professional standing of the student-teachers was reported at the close of the session as follows:

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Of those not classified, a few left the school on account of illness, some were advised that their scholarship was not sufficient to warrant their being presented for license, and others remained in attendance on the express condition that they would not expect to be presented.

The school suffered a great loss during the second term in the death, after a brief illness, of Mr. M. F. Tupper, of the Junior Division. He was a most estimable young man, and his early death was sincerely mourned by all who knew him. His exemplary conduct as a student, together with his high character generally, had endeared him both to his teachers and his fellow-students.

Miss M. E. Gregory, whose long and faithful service to the cause of education as an instructor in the Normal School, is too well-known throughout the Province to need any commendation, found herself compelled, through failing health, to resign her position in January, 1884. Few teachers have so long and so honorable a record as hers, and lived so closely to a high ideal of a teacher's duties and responsibilities. The high regard in which her services were held was appropriately expressed by her associateteachers and by the students at the close of the exercises of the term.

The usual course of instruction was substantially followed during the year. The instruction in the Theory and Practice of School Management and in the English Language and Literature was, as usual, under my own personal direction during the year.

Mr. H. C. Creed, A. M., taught Mathematics and Natural Science, Industrial Drawing, Mathematical Geography, and Writing.

Miss M. Alice Clark, instructor in Reading, Vocal and Physical Culture, undertook the teaching of Domestic Economy and Hygiene after Miss Gregory's resignation, and Mr. Geo. A. Inch, A. B., was temporarily appointed on the staff for the balance of Mr. Inch rendered valuable help to the school.

the year.

The instruction in Music was under the efficient supervision of E. Cadwallader, A. B., as heretofore.

A French Department was established at the beginning of the second term, by order of the Board of Education, and Mr. A. Belliveau, late of the French Preparatory Department, placed in charge. The students of the French Department receive the same advantages for professional instruction as the English-speaking students in addition to the course of study in their own department. The number of students enrolled during the first term was. 13, 4 of whom were males.

I take pleasure in acknowledging the care for the comfort and convenience of the students of the Normal Department and the pupils of the Model Department which the Government of this Province have displayed in grading and neatly enclosing the playgrounds attached to the Normal School, and in beautifying in various ways the front of the grounds during the year.

The medals annually granted by His Excellency the Governor-General were awarded, in the Senior Division, to Edgar M. Brundage, of King's County, and to Edward L. O'Brien, of Gloucester County, in the Junior Division, respectively, for "Highest Professional Standing." In the Model Department, Miss Lottie Gough was the successful competitor.

His Honor Lieutenant-Governor Wilmot, who has always taken a deep interest in the Normal School and in education generally, and several members of the Board of Education were present at the public closing exercises of the school in May last,

On a previous occasion the honorable the Board of Education honored the school by a visit and spent some hours in witnessing its work in the different class rooms. Their presence and their words of encouragement were most highly appreciated by the student-teachers.

The conduct of the student-teachers during the whole year was most commendable.

MODEL DEPARTMENT.

This Department includes a complete series of grades, from I. to VIII., divided into four schools of two grades each.

The enrolment for the year was about 200 pupils.

The Principal, Mr. John F. Rogers, has proved a capable and energetic teacher. Miss Eusebia A. Minard and Miss Jennie Lyle, whose names had been long and honorably connected with the Model Schools, resigned their positions during the yearthe former, whose reputation extended beyond the limits of the Province, to take charge of a department of the schools in Haverhill, Mass. ; the latter to assume the management of one of the St. Stephen schools.

Their places were supplied by the appointment of Miss Clara I. Shea and Miss Annie M. Harvey, both of whom have given much promise of success in the short time which has elapsed since their appointment.

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