Report of the Minister of Public Instruction Upon the Condition of Public Schools Established and Maintained Under the Public Instruction Act of 1880Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1909 - Public schools |
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31st December account of Vote addition Agricultural Amount received Applications for Establishment appointed average attendance Bathurst Books and stationery boys Branch Broken Hill buildings Bursaries candidates Carpentry cent classification Condobolin Cookery Cooma cost Cowra Creek December Quarter Declined Department District Schools Dressmaking Dubbo efficiency Erskineville expenditure females Fort-street French girls Glen Innes Goulburn Granted Half-time Schools held High Schools House-to-house Schools Inspector Junior Examination lectures Maitland males Manual Training Mathematics Matriculation Millinery Mullumbimby MURRUMBURRAH Narrabri Nature Study Newcastle Nowra number of schools operation passed Physics Probationary Students Provisional Schools prox Pupil-teachers pupils Quirindi received from Treasury Repairs Residence Salaries and allowances Scholarships and Bursaries second-year Senior Sheep and Wool Shorthand staff subjects Subsidised Schools Superior Public School Sydney Grammar School Sydney Technical College teaching Technical Education total enrolment total number Training College Treasury on account University Wagga Wagga Weekly Enrolment Wood-carving Wool Classes Yass year's
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Page 23 - The total number of volumes in the Library at the end of the year was 22,211.
Page 2 - The parents of 3,422 were cautioned, while in the remaining cases satisfactory explanations were furnished, or the circumstances were not such as to render any action necessary. In a large number of instances pupils had obtained certificates by examination, and were thus legally exempt. For the second half-year, the number between the compulsory ages who did not attend 70 days was 54,052.
Page 21 - Of the latter sum an amount of £46,860 was withdrawn for the purpose of being placed to the credit of children's accounts in the Government Savings Bank. The object aimed at in establishing these banks is to incul• cate practically the principles of economy while yet the minds of the children are susceptible of deep impressions.
Page 57 - Association. (80) also aims to assist those who desire to make a knowledge of art a part of their general education, and...
Page 1 - The disposition on the part of parents to send their children to school at too early an age, I consider detrimental to the schools, and also to the children.
Page 8 - The number of applications granted in 1908 was 131, and the number of schools in operation at the end of the year was 284.
Page 27 - Calculated on the net expenditure, the cost to the State per head of enrolment was £13 10s.
Page 30 - During recent years, a number of Parents' and Citizens' Associations have been formed in connection with schools. Their growth testifies to a widespread desire to do something independently of State aid to make the schools better fitted in the matter of equipment for educational work. These associations have no authority in respect of the internal management of the schools, nor in the expenditure of public moneys. MODERN DEVELOPMENT. Valuable as the system adopted and adjusted from time to time had...
Page 7 - Of these, 55 boys and 45 girls obtained Scholarships for High Schools and Superior Schools; 32 boys and 32 girls, Bursaries for High and Superior Schools; 8 boys, Bursaries for the Sydney Grammar School ; and 6 boys and 5 girls University Bursaries.