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(c.) An infant school should have its playground on the same level as the school.

16. Infant Schools.

16. Infants should not, except in very small schools, be taught in the same room with older children, as the noise and the training of the infants disturb and injuriously affect the discipline and instruction of the other children.

(a.) There must be no opening wider than an ordinary doorway between an infants' and any other schoolroom, because of the sound of the infant teaching.

(b.) An infant school and playground should always be on the ground floor, and if more than 80 scholars are admitted, should have one gallery and a small group of benches and desks for the occasional use of the elder infants.

(c.) No infant gallery should hold more than 80 or 90 infants. It should be well lighted from one side. The light for object lessons is as good from the right as from the left.

(d.) The width of an infant schoolroom should be in proportion to its size, but not more than 24 feet.

(e.) The babies' room should always have an open fire.

(f) The accommodation of an infant schoolroom is calculated at 8 sq. ft. for each child, after deducting wasted or useless space, but a larger area should be allowed wherever practicable.

17. Cookery Centres and Class-rooms.

17. A cookery centre should be capable of accommodating at least one class of 24 at practice and not more than 72 at demonstration at one time. A cookery class-room should contain about 400 superficial feet, and be approached by a separate entrance in the girls' playground. A small scullery is necessary.

18. Workshops and Laundries.

18. Workshops and laundries are best entirely apart from the school.

19. Teacher's House, &c.

18. The residence for the master or mistress should contain a parlour, a kitchen, a scullery, and three bed-rooms; and the smallest dimensions which their Lordships can approve are—

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(a.) The residence must be so planned that the staircase is immediately accessible from an entrance-lobby and from the parlour, kitchen, and each bed-room, without making a passage of any room.

(b.) Each bed-room must be on the upper story, and must have a fireplace.

(c) The parlour must not open directly into the kitchen or scullery.

(d.) There must be no internal communication between the residence and the school.

(e.) There must be a separate and distinct yard, with offices. (f.) The residence for a caretaker need not be so large.

(g) All houses should be separate from and not built as part of the schoolhouse.

20 & 21. Loans.

20. No loan of money can be obtained from the Public Works Loan Commissioners unless the whole cost of the school, exclusive of site, legal expenses, extra rooms for instruction authorised by the Code, and residences (if any), is kept within the sum of 10%. per child accommodated. An allowance will also be made in reference to the cost of a central hall not calculated in the accommodation (Rule 8), up to a maximum of 600l. Rooms for extra subjects recognised by the New Code, such as drawing, chemistry, &c., will have an allowance varying from 15s. to 20s. per square foot. From £275 to £400 will be allowed for a caretaker's house. From £275 to £500 will be allowed for a cookery centre. Whether the necessary loan be borrowed in the open market or not, extravagant plans cannot be approved.

21. The department do not entertain applications for loans when the expenditure has been incurred without their previous sanction.

SCHOOL RECORDS.

INSTRUCTIONS TO H.M. INSPECTORS.

[6th February 1891]

1. The Code requires that managers of schools shall provide suitable records-registers, log-book, and cash-book (Article 8); and, before any grant is made, the Education Department must be satisfied "that the admission and daily attendance of the scholars are carefully registered by or under the supervision of the principal teacher, and periodically verified by the managers; that accounts of income and expenditure are accurately kept by the managers and duly audited; and that all statistical returns and certificates of character are trustworthy."

2. The necessary books should be bought out of school funds and be the exclusive property of the school.

3. All entries must be original, not copied from slates, papers, or memoranda of any kind. They must be made from the first in ink. Pencil entries of any kind are altogether forbidden. There must be no erasures nor insertions. If it is necessary to make any correction, this should be done in such manner that the original entry and the alteration made are both clear on the face of the record. The entries should be consecutive; no blanks should be left between them.

4. The name of the school should be distinctly written on the cover or title-page of each book.

REGISTERS.

5. In every school or department there should be-
(a.) A register of admission, progress, and withdrawal.
(b.) Attendance registers.

(c.) A register of summaries.

The pages of these registers must be numbered consecutively. Each register should be signed on the title-page by the correspondent of the school, with the date at which it was supplied to the teacher. No leaf should be withdrawn from, or inserted in, any register. The registers presented to Her Majesty's Inspector must be the original registers, which have been in use throughout the year, and on which the returns are based. The head teacher of a school or department will, in all cases, be held responsible for the proper keeping of the records of that school or department, and should not delegate to any subordinate the keeping of

any of these registers, except those of attendance. A pupilteacher who has completed his second year may register the attendance of his own class. A first or second year pupil-teacher may not be employed in registration.

6. The managers are held responsible for the efficient verification of the registration. Form 9 contains certificates to be signed by managers, (1) that the school registers and books of account have been so kept as to leave no doubt respecting the accuracy of the entries in this form, that are taken from them; (2) that the attendance registers have been invariably marked on each occasion the school has been open, and closed before the commencement of the minimum time specified in Article 12; and (3) that the accuracy of the registers has been tested by the managers on several occasions and the result recorded in the logbook. In order that managers may be able to give these certificates, they are required to visit the school without notice, at least once in every quarter, at some time when the attendance registers should have been marked and added up for that meeting of the school and to check the entries. This should be done by ascertaining (1) that each of the children present at the time of marking has been marked present, and each of the children not so present has been marked absent; (2) that the totals of these attendances have been duly entered; (3) that the instructions for the keeping of these registers, hereafter laid down, have been fulfilled; and (4) that the admission register and summary have been properly kept up to date. The result of each such visit should be entered by the visiting manager in the log-book, dated, and signed by him. The managers should also, at the end of the year, check the number of times the school has been opened, and also a sufficient number of the attendance totals (at least 10 per cent.) to convince themselves of the accuracy of the registration.

ADMISSION REGISTER.

7. The entry for each scholar should be made in this register on his admission to the school. Successive numbers must be allotted to the scholars on their admission, so that each may have his own number, which he should retain throughout his career in the school, and which should be used to identify him. This will be especially useful when there are two or more scholars of the same name. When more than one entry is made for the same scholar, that is to say, when he has been admitted and re-admitted, he should resume his old number, and cross references should be made to the entries.

8. No child's name should be removed from this register, so long as he is under legal obligation to attend school, unless it has been ascertained that he is dead, is attending another school, or has left the neighbourhood.

9. This register must show distinctly for each scholar who has actually been present in the school

(a.) His number on the register.

(b.) The date of his admission (and re-admission)-day, month,

and year.

(c) His name in full.

(d.) The name and address of his parent or guardian.

(e.) Whether exemption from religious instruction is claimed on

his behalf.

(f.) The exact date of his birth-day, month, and year.

(g) The last school he attended before entering this school. If this is his first school, the word "none" should be entered in this column.

(h.) The highest standard and stage of specific subjects in which he was presented in his last school.

(i.) The successive standards, and stages of specific subjects, in which he has been presented in this school.

(j.) The date of his last attendance at this school and the cause of his leaving.

10. This register must have an alphabetical index.

ATTENDANCE Registers.

11. Separate registers should be provided for older scholars, for infants and for half-timers in each school or department; and on no account should the attendances of any scholar be entered in a register of one of these sections when he is being taught with another section, or be transferred from one section to another. Separate registers should also be provided for recording the attendance of scholars at special classes for instruction in any of the subjects mentioned in Art. 12 (f). These registers should show accurately the time during which the scholar is under instruction at the class; and those for cookery classes should also state the number of hours spent by each scholar in cooking with her own hands.

12. The approved time-table must provide adequate time at each meeting of the school for marking the registers, and they must be marked and the attendance totals entered during the time so provided. This time must end before the commencement of the minimum time constituting an attendance as defined by Art. 12, after which no scholar may be marked present except as provided in par. 17.

13. The name of the school, department, and class should appear on the cover of each register.

14. There must be columns for the admission numbers and names of the scholars, both of which must invariably be entered at the same time, and a column for the attendances at each meeting in the school year, which column should be properly

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