5. The

East Kennington, Mixed-1. An excellent large room, furnished with nothing bat
forms; not so much like a school as a chapel, for whleh Indeed it is used twice n-week.
Adjoining, as a sort of class-room, is an infant school, very disorderly.
is none. The children do nearly what they like.
2. Discipline there
3. Nominally monitorial.
mistress is a young person of excellent character, of prepossessing manner, and herself
very well instructed, and might be a valuable teacher in a school of more easily manage-
able elements and less trying character. But a mixed juvenile and infant school demands
peculiar energies, method, and experience; and I think it is no disparagement to this very
amiable young person to say, that the difficulties of her present position are too much for
her easy and indulgent character.

Effingham, Mixed.-1. About 30 feet by 15 feet; gallery and wall desks. A mixed
school, under a master. The room presents every symptom of efficiency on entering, and
this prepossession is confirmed on examination. 2. The discipline is remarkably good.
The children prettily dressed, clean, sprightly, and confiding, and well under command;
drill good. 4. Instruction very commendable. Scripture, reading, writing, and arith-
metic, all very satisfactory. Secular reading judiciously graduated; an air of modest
intelligence pervades the school. 5. Mr. Palmer; is attached to his school, to which he
applies himself with considerable ability and energy. 6. Altogether one of the most
pleasing schools I have hitherto seen. Good sense seems to preside over it, and good
temper and breadth of feeling. Great interest and pains are taken in it by the clergyman
and his wife, both of whom know what a school is for, and what is wanted in it.

Plaxtol, Boys'.-Very well-built schools, separate from girls' hy moveable division;
parallel desks; tolerably furnished. 2. A good general tone throughout the school. 4.
reading fair; writing fair; arithmetic fair; Scripture taken much pains with; secular
knowledge scanty. 5. Mr. John Williams, intelligent and active, but might cultivate
more method with advantage. Selected a boy for apprenticeship.
Plaxtol, Girls'.-1. Same as boys, except parallel desks. 2. Very clean cheerful-looking
girls, under excellent moral influence. 4. Scripture taken great pains with. The reading,
writing, and arithmetic, are of moderate extent and quality. The intelligence of the
children admits perhaps of more cultivation and connexion with their work. 5. Mrs.
Wells, a person of the highest moral character.

Igtham, Mixed.-1. A barn converted into a crowded but very commendable school,
40 feet by 12 feet, and 12 feet high. Rather scantily furnished, funds being depressed;
three parallel desks, containing seven children each. Brick floor; lath ceiling; draining
and ventilation indifferent. 2. Very fair considering crowd; clean, cheerful, and well
behaved. 3. Monitorial; five classes. 4. Reading and writing very fair under the cir-
cumstances, and arithmetic good. 5. Mr. Thomas Dungate, 29, Canterbury; here six
months. His wife (also from the Canterbury training school) assists. He seems active,
intelligent, and interested in his school. 6. The curate, Mr. Douglas, takes great pains
about the school, and has hopes of compassing a new building for it. Selected a boy for
apprenticeship.
Shipbourne, Mixed.-1. A room in a cottage, at present very much crowded and incon-
venient. But a new school is projected by Mr. Ridgeway, which may be expected under
his judicious and vigorous direction to be placed upon a very efficient footing. The in-
cumbency is a donative in the holding of a clergyman not resident.
Winchester, St. Maurice, Girls'.-1. New and well-built brick schools; mixed girls' and
infants' capable of being divided, infants' from girls' by folding-doors. Good gallery for
infants, and altogether of effective and promising appearance. 2. Exceedingly clean, or-

here.

derly, and cheerful-looking children. 3. Monitorial. 4. Very fair, and well graduated. Read-
ing fair; writing fair; arithmetic good; general answers intelligont. 5. Miss Mary Webster,
Salisbury Wrote on her certificate as follows: "This school, which is of girls and
infants, mixed, and therefore a rather trying one, presents very favourable evidence of
the ability, kind manner, diligence, adaptation, and good moral influence employed upon
it by the schoolmistress." Selected two apprentices additional to that already indentured
well built of brick.
Easton, Mixed.-1. This room is 32 feet by 16 feet, and 16 feet high; it is modern and
work mistress) resides.
A residence is attached, in which the infant mistress (who is also
&c.
There is but one school-room; it has parallel desks, maps, clock,
The infant school-room, which opens into this with folding-doors, is at present
occupied as a cottage. This is likely to be set at liberty, and to resume its function as an
infant school-room, which would be an advantage. Brick floor; well drained and ven.
tilated. No play-ground. 2. Very fair. Nice looking, well-behaved children. 3. Mo-
nitorial, but master teaches for most part. 4. Fair (age considered) in the upper class.
Reading fair; but a lower scale of reading-books, with more ample explanation and
questioning to each class, would be desirable. Writing fair, and arithmetic fair. 5. Mr.
Thomas Wilding, 21, Winchester; here one year and a-half; intelligent looking; seems
to have fair vivacity and self-possession. Perhaps more adaptation to the level of the
children's minds might be cultivated. I should then look for a better show amongst the
smaller classes, who answered but very ineffectually.

Lymington, Boys'.-A sufficient plain, light, airy room, board floor, well drained, and
ventilated. There is a girls' school adjoining, and residences both for master and mis-
tress. The school not much furnished, and rather of old-fashioned tone, with a willing-
ness however to modernize. 2. Orderly, except as to copying from each other's slates,
which did not seem to be duly checked. 3. Monitorial. 4. Writing and arithmetic fair;
but somewhat mechanical. The intelligence of the children might be more excited and
engaged in what they do. 5. Mr. Edward Higgs, 28, Westminster; here one year and
a-quarter; obliging, diligent, and intelligent enough; but should cultivate energy and
enlarge his resources.

Southampton, All Saints', Boys' and Girls'.-1. Excellently built brick buildings.
Ground-floor comprises infant school class-room and writing-room, with closets, &c.
Above is one large room, which would be exccellent for an unmired school in point of
size; but there is considerable echo all over the building, and the floors sound hollow as
drums. The schools consist at present of an infant school, under a mistress, highly com-
mendable; and a mixed boys' and girls' school, the master of which is assisted by two
mistresses. 2. Good, both as to drill and general deportment. 3. Monitorial. 4. Getting
on very well. I think there wants more adaptation (in a descending direction) to the
minds and capacities of the children. Their secular reading should be lowered by one
degree all through the several classes. Reading, writing, and arithmetic very fair. 5.
Mr. Pascoe Mayne, St. Mark's, a very able, diligent, frank, and unassuming person; of
good address, and very much to be commended and encouraged. I wrote on his certifi-
cate-"I have to record a highly favourable impression of Mr. Mayne. His school appears
to be in as creditable and promising a stage of transition from a very indifferent to a very
efficient school, as was attainable in so short a time (four months) as he has held the
charge of it." I cannot extend these favourable observations to the girls, who seemed to
me to require a distinct establishment, in charge of an efficient mistress. Meantime it
might suffice to divide the present long room into two, with wooden moveable partition.

"

Tabulated Reports by Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, the Rev. W. H. Brookfield-continued.

Number present at

Examination.

Mensuration.
Algebra.

Geometry.

Vocal Music from

Linear Drawing.

Notes.

History.

Grammar.

Geography.

Fractions and
Decimals.

Proportion and

Practice.

Compound Rules

and Reduction.

Division.

Addition.

Numeration or
Notation.

Composition.

Books of General
Information.

Abstracts or

From Copies.

Composition.
From Dictation
or Memory.

Easy Narratives.
Letters and

Holy Scriptures.

Abstracts or

Monosyllables.

From Copies.

80

80

25

36

93

33

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14

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76

35 46 91

96

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84412.

44

45

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45 41.

12 17 14 20 899 2

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93

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Croydon, Boys'.-Inspected January 8, 1949. 1. A sufficient separate school with a
class-room, the girls being in a different part of the town; there is an infant school which
takes off the non-readers. 2. Good. 3. Monitorial. 4. Fair. 6. Examined and recom-
mended candidates for apprenticeship.

East Boldre, Mixed.-Inspected January 10, 1849. 1. A well-built, airy, light, and
well-formed school of sufficient dimensions. Girls and infants mixed; much cared for
by the clergyman; no boys above eight years old in it, though there does not appear
to be any provision for such elsewhere in the neighbourhood. It seems they go bird-
watching and the like. 2. Orderly, very silent, clean and neat; but the excessive
shrinking and timidity of the children (apprentices and all) suggest a suspicion that
the discipline which has produced this commendable order may have been enforced some-
what too stringently. The frankness and cheerfulness of children is too high a price to pay
for anything that I find here, though the school is a good one otherwise. 3. Monitorial.
4. The reading, writing, and arithmetic are fair; the secular knowledge is scanty.
5. Mistress very highly spoken of by the clergyman. 6. Examined and ecommended
pupil-teachers.

Southampton, St. Mary's, Boys'.-Inspected January 11, 1849 1. A good brick-built
room, with brick floor and sky-light; wall desks; class-room; rather scantily furnished.
An infant school takes off most of the non-readers. Too few copies of the books in use.
2. Good and well drilled. 3. Monitorial. 4. Satisfactory, save that more secular reading-
books with animated conversations upon them are wanted. 5. Master an intelligent and
painstaking person, who would readily apprehend and avail himself of friendly sug-
gestions as to method, &c.; he is too much pressed by numbers, and attends, therefore,
chiefly to the two upper classes; would be very safely charged with pupil-teachers, but
there are no candidates old enough; apparatus somewhat deficient.

Southampton, St. Mary's, Girls'.-Inspected January 11, 1849. 1. Room like the
boys', but boarded. 2. Sufficiently orderly and well conducted. 3. Monitorial. 4. Fair
enough in mechanical reading, writing, and arithmetic; but the teaching incidental to
reading is devoid of method. 5. Mistress, a painstaking conscientious person, very frank
and unassuming.

Norwood, Boys'.-Inspected January 29, 1849. 1. Brick building in substantial re-
pair; board floor; wall desks; well warmed, drained, and aired. 2. Fair. 3. Monitorial.

4. Instruction.

5. Master and Mistress.

6. Special.

4. Very creditable in all respects. 5. Master commendable; no candidates for appren-
ticeship at present.

Norwood, Girls'.-Inspected January 29, 1849. 1. Like the boys'; a residence between
the two schools. 2. Good, of very orderly creditable aspect. 3. Monitorial; three
classes. 4. Very fair. 5. Mistress, three months at Whitelands. No candidates for
apprenticeshp.

Wimbledon, Boys'.-Inspected February 19, 1849. 1. Octagon brick building; boys
on the ground floor. A sufficient room near the common; boarded, well drained,
warmed, and aired. 2. Good; clean, well-looking orderly boys. 3. Monitorial; six
classes. 4. Good. 5. Very painstaking, intelligent, and commendable.
6. There ought

to be pupil-teachers here, but the master thinks his health not strong enough. This is a
very satisfactory school.

Wimbledon, Girls'.-Inspected February 19, 1849. A very orderly, clean, creditable
school, but of indifferent intellectual attainment, and not, at present, fit for pupil-
teachers.
Wimbledon, Infants'.-Inspected February 19, 1849. A very good mistress, and the
school in all respects presents a very satisfactory appearance.

Cheam, Boys'.-Inspected February 20, 1849. 1. These schools are under a good moral
influence, and great interest is taken in the spiritual welfare of the children; the
buildings are substantial, well-drained, warmed, and aired, with residence for master and
mistress (man and wife) between boys' and girls' schools: tolerably provided with appa-
ratus. 2. Discipline good. 4. Instruction moderate. 5. Very painstaking and highly
respectable persons. 6. A lending library of 1200 volumes is a useful appendage to this
school.

Bexley, Boys'.-Inspected February 22, 1849. This school exhibits very fair discipline
and instruction. The master is a conscientious and painstaking person.

Bexley, Girls'.-Inspected February 22, 1849. A very neat and orderly school of
moderate instruction.

North Cray, Mixed.-Inspected February 22, 1849. A singularly picturesque school in
the rector's garden; mixed; both boys and girls are provided with a very neat and suit-
able uniform. Great interest is taken in the school by the clergyman with very good effect.
Foots Cray, Mixed.-Inspected February 22, 1849. A mixed school, crowded, and
apparently thriving under an obviously painstaking and intelligent master.

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Sutton-at-Hone, Boys' and Girls'.-Inspected February 23, 1849. 1. Examined for
pupil-teachers; recommended two candidates. 2. Discipline and instruction fair.
5. The master much interested in his work. Room is wanted. It would be
advantage if the girls' school could be converted into a class-room for the boys, and a new
school provided for the former.

great

Paul's Cray.-February 23, 1849. I arrived here according to agreement with the
clergyman, and found the school closed, the mistress having been taken ill. I conferred
with the clergyman, and gather that the school is one of the homeliest pretensions.

Charing, Buys'.-Inspected February 26, 1849. Master certificated. A very creditable
school. Discipline and instruction very good. The curate of the parish takes the live-
liest interest in it, and the master labours with equal ability and zeal. Space is much
wanted in the school. Wrote on master's certificate, "I have to record a highly favour-
able estimate of the zeal, ability, and success with which this school appears to be con-
ducted."

Canterbury, Boys'.-Inspected February 27, 1849. The present buildings have been
opened since last inspection; they are handsome and substantial, but the boys' room is
incommoded by a very noisy echo. The discipline is good, and the attainment fair.
The master was prevented by serious illness from being present at the examination,
which was quite satisfactory, as exhibiting the pains which he has taken with his school
and apprentices.

Canterbury, Girls'.-Inspected February 28, 1849. The school very orderly and credit-
able. Examination of the apprentices satisfactory.

St. Paul's, Infants'.-Inspected February 28, 1849.-Casually, by request to see if a
pupil-teacher could be introduced. A mixed juvenile and infant school, conducted in a
commendable spirit; but does not at present supply a candidate quite qualified for
apprenticeship.

Aylsham, Boys' and Girls'.-Inspected March 14, 1849. To report on the condition of the school with reference to Mrs. Bryan's proposed certificate. Report favourably.

5. Master and Mistress.

6. Special.

Ipswich, Boys'-Inspected March 15, 1849. The discipline and instruction of this
school are evidently good, and the master a person of attainment, ability, and zeal.
Ipswich, Girls'.-Inspected March 15, 1849. The mistress has had this school in her
charge only eight months, during two of which it has been closed on account of small-
pox; this may in a great measure account for some deficiencies in the attainment ex-
hibited just now, which, under the able direction of the rector, who takes a warm
interest in the schools, will, I have no doubt, ere long improve considerably.
Rickling, Girls'.-Inspected March 16, 1849. To report with reference to Miss Diana
Utber's proposed certificate of merit. Report quite favourably.

Islington, St. Stephen's, Girls'.-Inspected March 19, 1849. The discipline and moral
tone of this school are good; considerable pains are taken with religious instruction.
Examined with reference to an apprentice, on whom I report favourably.

Datchet, Girls'.-Inspected March 20, 1849. Great interest and pains are taken in this
school by the clergyman's family, with very satisfactory effect; suggestions are cheerfully
attended to, and it is one on which encouragement would be very properly bestowed.
St. Pancras, Christchurch, Boys'-Inspected March 21, 1849. Examined with reference
to candidates for apprenticeship, three of whom I recommended for election.

St. Pancras, Christchurch, Girls'.-Inspected March 22, 1849. Examined with refer-
ence to apprentices and new candidates, three of whom I recommended.

Whitechapel, St. Mark's, Boys'.-Inspected March 23, 1849. I have to record a favour-
able impression of the zeal, good sense, and general efficiency with which this school
appears to be conducted, and report favourably on the master's certificate of merit.
Whitechapel, St. Mark's, Girls'.-Inspected March 23, 1849. This school exhibits

commendable discipline, and seems to be under a salutary influence.
Colnbrook, Boys' and Girls'.-Inspected March 26, 1849. A mixed school under a
master. Examined the school and two apprentices; recommend both for stipend.