School Inspection

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Macmillan, 1887 - Education - 93 pages

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Page 10 - A BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS of All Times and All Countries. Gathered and Narrated Anew. By the Author of
Page 11 - HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT AND COOKERY. With an Appendix of Recipes used by the Teachers of the National School of Cookery. By WB TEGETMEIER. Compiled at the request of the School Board for London. i8mo. is. "Admirably adapted to the use for which it is designed.
Page 6 - ... managers that they possess reasonable competency as sempstresses; and, at the annual examinations, must bring certified specimens of plain needlework to the inspector, together with a statement from the schoolmistress specifying whether they have been receiving practical instruction in any other kind of domestic industry. The inspector, at the time of examination, or afterwards, will obtain the opinion of some competent person upon the merit of the needlework.
Page 7 - At the examination for admission to Training Colleges (Article 91) additional marks will be given to candidates who pass the following examination in practical skill:— 1. Sounding single notes, or passages of two or more notes, in a given scale, from dictation ; or, naming such notes sounded by the examiner.
Page 10 - Among the numerous sets of readers before the public the present series is honourably distinguished by the marked superiority of its materials and the careful ahility with which they have been adapted to the growing capacity of the pupils. The plan of the two primers is excellent for facilitating the child's first attempts to read. In the first three following books there is abundance of entertaining reading Better food for young minds could hardly be found.
Page 10 - Scott's (Sir Walter) LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL ; and THE LADY OF THE LAKE. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE. Globe 8vo. is. (Globe Readings from Standard Authors.) MARMION ; and THE LORD OF THE ISLES. By the same Editor. Globe 8vo.
Page 4 - If these subjects are taught to children by definition and verbal description, instead of by making them exercise their own powers of observation, they will be worthless as means of education.
Page 9 - Assistants, and Pupil Teachers. By JR BLAKISTON, MA Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. (Recommended by the London, Birmingham, and Leicester School Boards.) " Into a comparatively small book he has crowded a great deal of exceedingly useful and sound advice. It is a plain, common-sense book, full of hints to the teacher on the management of his school and his children.
Page 10 - Cowper's TASK: AN EPISTLE TO JOSEPH HILL, ESQ. ; TIROCINIUM, or a Review of the Schools; and THE HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN.
Page 11 - No man can read this poem without being struck by the fitness and finish of the workmanship, so to speak, as well as by the chastened and unpretending loftiness of thought which pervades the whole." — GLOBE. Words from the PoetS. Selected by the Editor of

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