The parent of a child employed in a factory or workshop shall cause that child to attend some recognized efficient school (which school may be selected by the parent), as follows:- (a.) The child, when employed in a morning or afternoon set, must in every week, during any part of which he is so employed, be caused to attend on each work day for at least one attendance; and (b.) the child, when employed on the alternate day system, must on each work day preceding each day of employment be caused to attend for at least two attendances; (c.) An attendance for the purposes of this section shall be an attendance as defined for the time being by the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Board of Education, and be between the hours of eight in the morning and six in the evening. Appendix. Section II., When a child of the age of thirteen years has obtained from a person (Section 71.) authorized by the Board of Education a certificate of having attained such standard of proficiency in reading, writing, and arithmetic, or such standard of previous due attendance at a certificated efficient school as is mentioned in this section, that child shall be deemed to be a young person for the purposes of this Act. Certificates of Proficiency. In future, principal teachers of National schools should give certifi-cates of proficiency to any of the pupils of their schools who may require them for the purposes of the Factory and Workshop Act, provided such pupils have reached the standard of proficiency prescribed in the following Order : Order of the Secretary of State, dated 19th February, 1903, defining, with the consent of the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council in Ireland, attendance at School, and fixing with like consent a Standard of Proficiency (Ireland). In pursuance of Sections 68 and 71 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, I hereby make the following Order : 1. An attendance for the purposes of section 68 of the said Act shall be an attendance at instruction in secular subjects for a period of not less than two hours at some recognized efficient school. 2. The standard of proficiency for the purpose of section 71 of the said Act shall be such proficiency in reading, writing, and arithmetic, as is prescribed for the fifth class or standard in the programme of instruction of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland. The time fixed must be two or more complete hours, Fractions of an hour cannot be included. Appendix. Section II, 3. Certificates of proficiency may be granted in the same manner as is prescribed for certificates under the Irish Education Act of 1892 by the said Second Schedule to that Act (55 and 56 Vic., chapter 42). 4. The Order of the 15th February. 1879, defining an attendance at a recognized efficient school in Ireland, and prescribing the standard of proficiency and the standard of previous due attendance in Ireland, is hereby revoked. A. AKERS DOUglas, WHITEHALL, 19th February, 1903. On the 10th March, 1903, the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council in Ireland consented to and approved of the foregoing Order. Inspectors are required to see that certificates under the Act are issued in the cases contemplated by the 68th Section above referred to. The Inspectors of National schools are required to co-operate in every way in their power with the sub-inspectors of factories in Ireland, whose duty it is to see that the provisions of the Factory Act are fully complied with. SCHEDULE XII. PUPILS OF INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS ATTENDING NATIONAL SCHOOLS, NATIONAL 1. (a.) The accounts of the attendance, &c., of Industrial school pupils must be perfectly separate and distinct from those of the ordinary pupils of the National school. Separate registers, roll books, and daily report books must always be used. (b.) The attendances of the certified Industrial school pupils must be returned by the Inspector, in a supplemental report, and by the manager, in the school returns, separately from the ordinary pupils, so that payment may not be made by the Commissioners of National Education for the instruction of the Industrial school pupils-such payment being made directly by the Department of Industrial Schools. (c.) Industrial pupils attending a National school are instructed in precisely the same manner as the ordinary day pupils. 2. National teachers serving in Reformatory and Industrial schools in Ireland are regarded, and have the same privileges, as National teachers serving in Workhouse National Schools, provided the curriculum in Reformatory and Industrial schools is brought into harmony with the curriculum in National Schools. 3. Regulation, concerning boarded-out pauper children, adopted by the Local Government Board, with the approval of His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant : "The child, when of sufficient age to attend school shall, subject to the approval of the workhouse chaplain of the religious persuasion in which such child is registered, attend the nearest National school, or shall, subject to the approval of the guardians and of such chaplain, attend some other public school, and a certificate of such attendance, signed by the teacher and showing the days of absence, if any, shall be given to the relieving officer each month, provided that if the school be not a National school the child shall be examined annually by an Inspector of the Commissioners of National Education at a convenient time and place, and the result of such examination shall be reported to the guardians.” The Commissioners have intimated to the Local Government Board, that with regard to "boarded-out" pauper pupils attending schools that are not National schools, their inspectors are prepared to examine them at the workhouse nearest or most convenient to them. Also, that the inspector will give at least one month's notice of his intended examination, at which the Poor Law authorities secure the attendance of "boarded-out" children; and that the Inspector will, in each case, leave an abstract of the answering of each of the children with the master of the workhouse in which the examination is held. As nearly all the workhouses have National schools attached to them, it is presumed that in many cases inspectors will have the opportunity of inspecting the children referred to, along with the workhouse pupils. Appendix. Section II., Appendix. Section II.. SCHEDULE XIII. SCHOOL REQUISITES. 1. (a.) A first stock of school requisites is furnished gratuitously to each school in proportion to the attendance of children. (b.) When an unsuitable school-house has been superseded by a suitable school-house erected from private funds, or when a considerable sum derived from private contributions has been expended upon the enlargement or structural improvement of a school-house, a special free stock of school requisites may be granted, on the recommendation of the Inspector. (c.) Money expended on furniture, apparatus, or repairs cannot be taken into account in deciding a claim for a special free stock. (d.) These requisites should be kept as a school stock, for which the master or mistress is held responsible, and must not be sold or taken out of the school. (e.) The school account books are furnished gratuitously to the schools, and are the property of the Commissioners. (f.) No school account book may be removed from the school except by the inspector, or with his express sanction. 2. Scale of grants of school requisites made to new schools, &c. Adequate supply of Books and Requisites to be kept 3. (a.) An adequate stock of books and other requisites-approved of by the Commissioners-must be purchased for the use of the school, and for sale to the pupils. (b.) A copy of the general list of books and requisites sanctioned for use, showing the price to the pupils of each article, must be kept in each schoolroom, and be available for the use of the pupils. Also a tablet showing the books, &c., actually in use in each school, and the prices at which they are sold to the pupils, must be suspended in a conspicuous place in the schoolroom. When books, &c., are sold to the children attending a National school, in no case may any advance be made on the prices fixed by the Commissioners; and the inspectors have instructions to inquire into and report upon any infraction of this regulation. SCHEDULE XIV. SUPPLIES OF EQUIPMENT. 1. (a.) The expenses of the necessary appliances required in connection with instruction in elementary science and manual training should, whenever possible, be defrayed locally. There are, however, many schools for which the Commissioners feel satisfied the full cost of the appliances, or part of the cost, cannot be provided locally, and to meet the cases of such schools His Majesty's Government and the Lords of His Majesty's Treasury have placed at the disposal of the Commissioners of National Education a limited grant. (b.) Supplies of equipment of the amounts specified in the appended scales may be sanctioned accordingly; but the full amounts in the scales can be allowed only in necessitous cases. (c.) A supply of equipment is granted only to a school where there is a teacher fully competent to use it. If the teacher is competent in respect of part of the apparatus, that part alone is supplied. (d.) A supply of equipment remains the property of the Commissioners, and is granted on condition that the manager of the school undertakes to have it properly stored, and to provide for its maintenance in an efficient condition. No second grant is made under any circumstances. (e.) The supplies of equipment are sanctioned on the recommendation of the inspectors and the head organizers of elementary science and manual instruction. A list is sent in the case of each supply of equipment, showing of what items it is constituted, and the cost of each item, so that in cases of renewal managers may be in a position to know what expenditure is necessary for the purpose. (f.) The supplies of equipment are forwarded by the Commissioners' contractors, and when received at the school should be checked with the lists which are sent from the Office of National Education. (1.) Elementary Science and Object Lessons. Appendix. Section II. K. Scales of equipment grants. 9 0 0 145 and above, 10 0 0 (9.) In a school where the attendance is less than 30 an equipment grant may be allowed of 1s. per head for hand and eye training, and 9d. for drawing, computed on the average attendance, with £1 10s. and £1 respectively as maxima. |