ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST REPORT OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY. PART III. PAGE BRITISH SCHOOLS AT CORBY, NORTHFLEET, AND PETERSHAM : SUMMARY OF TRUST AND OTHER FUNDS ADMINISTERED BY THE James Grant Bequest Christy Bequest Berridge Trust Herold's Foundation Shakespeare's Walk and Neale Exhibition Funds Francis Morton Trust George Stacey Gibson Bequest Wall's Legacy Saffron Walden British School Charity 209 236 TRUST FUNDS ON THE GOVERNING BODIES OF WHICH THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY IS REPRESENTED. Lancasterian Exhibition Fund (Bristol) Joseph Lancaster Exhibition Fund (Swansea) 262 264 ROWLATT BRITISH SCHOOL, CORBY, REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING OCTOBER 31ST, 1905. THE Committee of Management (see Appendix) Committee. consists, under a "Final Order" of the Board of Education, of four Foundation Managers, appointed by the General Committee of the British and Foreign School Society, one manager appointed by the Northamptonshire County Council, and one appointed by the Corby Parish Council, six in all. Four meetings have been held, viz., in January, April, July, and October. The Rev. T. G. Clarke, M.A., has acted as the Chairman of the Managers, and the Rev. J. Hammil as Vice-Chairman, the duties of honorary correspondent being undertaken by Mr. Williams throughout the year. It has been arranged that the ordinary meetings shall be held quarterly in the same months as heretofore, and on the corresponding days and hours. quorum of three has been fixed in accordance with Schedule I. B. (1) of the Education Act. A Nothing has been done during the year by way Improvements and of improving the premises. The continued Maintenance. increase of the population of the district, the demand for school places, and the crowded state of the classrooms make it apparent to the managers that the enlargement of the buildings, which His Majesty's Inspector continues to recommend and press for, must no longer be postponed. The question of improvements, however, has been held in abeyance during the year, pending negotiations with the County Council as to the future of the school. Application has been made to the Board of Education for a Scheme under which the school may be carried on and the endowment utilised to the best advantage of the neighbourhood; but until the matter is definitely settled, no further steps can be taken in regard to the enlargement of the premises. If it should be decided to ask the County Authority to take over the school and carry it on as a "Provided School," the duty of enlarging the premises would be its concern. For the time being, the British and Foreign School Society has kept the school going on the old "voluntary" lines. On the appointed day, September 30th, 1903, there were various outstanding amounts owed by and to the former Managers, which have appeared in the balance sheets published since that date. The accounts in the corrected balance sheets given in Appendix 6 have been adjusted in such a way as to show (1) what amounts received or paid since the appointed day really belong to the preceding period, and (2) the receipts and expenditure of the present Managers since the appointed day. The debt to the British and Foreign School Society now stands at £1,428 2s. 3d., of which £599 5s. 3d. has been incurred in capital expenditure on the enlargement and improvement of the premises, and £828 17s. (in 1903, £1,273 16s. 5d.) represents the excess of expenditure over income while the school was maintained by the Society. Apparatus, Staff. Lesson books and all school materials were provided during the year at the sole cost of the Local Authority. The school has enjoyed the advantage of the services of Mr. T. C. Ollis as headmaster throughout the year, while Miss Bertha Lovell has acted as headmistress of the infants' school. Mrs. Ollis, owing to the lack of adequate staff, has acted as assistant in the infant school since 18th March 1905. Misses Nellie Felce and May D. Draper commenced duties on 9th January, 1905, as supplementary teachers. Miss Felce left to take a better appointment in Sussex on 6th March. The sewing and cookery lessons have been given, as before, by Mrs. Ollis, and the assistance in teaching the other subjects in the senior school by Miss Winstone and Miss Barratt. Alice J. Streather and Florence Chapman have continued to act as pupil teachers, and attend the Kettering Pupil Teacher Centre. The quarterly returns show little change in the Numbers. number of children attending the mixed school and an increase in the infants' school. Both schools are, however, still more than full. The average should not exceed 100 in the mixed school. The infants' school admits of an average of 113. Distribution of The The Society gave prizes for the last time. distribution took place on May 17th. made by the Education Committee. On the 4th November, Rev. T. G. Clarke, M.A., Chairman of Managers, distributed the temperance certificates to the successful candidates, and gave an excellent address on "Temperance," in which he said temperance should influence not only drinking, but all our actions. |