1. Organization.

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.

3. Methods.

2. Discipline.
Bushbury. Inspected August 16, 1849.-1. Mixed, under master, apprentices, and
monitors. The junior children are under a mistress and monitors. 2. Fair. More
attention should be given to the cultivation of a high moral tone. Some of the children
"crib." 3. Simultaneous, collective, and class teaching. 4. Fair. 5. Is untrained;
possesses good qualifications as teacher and school keeper. 6. More attention should
be given to grounding the children in the several subjects in which they are taught.
This remark especially applies to arithmetic. The spelling from dictation is imperfect.
The Church Catechism should be taught more intelligently. The geueral condition of
the school is good. (Desks and furniture)- desks along walls.

West Bromwich, St. James. Inspected August 15, 1849.-1. Three classes under
mistress, apprentices, and monitors. 2. Good. 3. Class collective and simultaneous.
5. Untrained. Earnest in her work, with good qualifications for teaching. Good
school-keeper. 6. The general condition of this school reflects great credit upon the
mistress and managers. (Boks and apparatus)-sufficient. (Desks and furniture)-
desks in parallel rows in centre of room.

West Bromwich, St. James. Inspected August 15, 1849.-1. Infants under mistress,
apprentices, and monitors. 2. food. 5. Untrained. Earnest in her work. Good
school keeper and teacher. 6. General condition of school good. (Books and appa-
ratus)-sufficient.

Shipston-on-Stour. Inspected August 17, 1849.-Girls under mistress and monitors.
Discipline strict. Children quiet and subdued. Instruction moderate.

Wolverhampton, St. Paul's. Iuspected August 20, 1849.-Boys and girls in school-
rooms under master, mistress, and apprentices. The general condition fair. Teachers
certificated. School under repairs.

Norbury. Inspected August 21, 1849.-It is stated to me that Jabez Rathbone, the
master, has left this school for some months. That the pupil-teacher is gone, not known
The Indentures never having been executed. The school is closed. Some
where.
inquiries should be instituted in this case. No manager was present at my visit, and
the above information was derived from the school-mistress. The privies are very
inconveniently and offensively situated.

Dukinfield, St. John's, Boys'. Inspected August 22, 1849.-1. Five classes under
master and apprentices. 2. Fair. 3. Simultaneous. Collective and class teaching.
5. Possesses some good qualifications for his office. Earnestness and vigour. (Books
and apparatus)-sufficient. (Desks and furniture)-in parallel desks on gallery.

Dukinfield, St. John's, Girls'. Inspected August 22, 1849.-1. Five classes under mis. tress, apprentices, and monitor. 2. Moderate. 3. Simultaneous, collective, and class teaching. 5. Possesses many good qualifications for her office. Appears to be earnest

4. Instruction.

5. Master and Mistress.

6. Special.

in her work, and I believe bas done her duty in the school. 6. I should imagine that
considerable pains have been taken with the children, and that a material improve-
ment is going on. (Books and apparatus)-deficiency of books for the junior classes.
(Desks and furniture.)

Hoyle Lake. Inspected August 23, 1849.-1. Mixed, under master, apprentices, and
monitors. 2. Detective. 5. The present master has been appointed lately. He
appears to be an efficient teacher. I feel somewhat in doubt as to his abilities in main-
taining high discipline. 6 The general condition of this school is moderate; sufficient
skill has not been used in teaching the several branches. More pains should be taken
to induce a high moral tone among the children. The unsatisfactory state of the
school would seem to arise from the neglect or incompetency of the former master.
(Books and apparatus)-deficiency of secular books. (Desks and furniture)-desks
along walls.
Stone, Christchurch. Inspected August 24, 1849.-1. Six classes under master,
apprentices, and monitor. 2. Fair. 5. Possesses some good qualifications; is gentle
and quiet, with considerable impressiveness of manner. Is somewhat deficient in skill.
The attainments of the children fair. 6. The difficulties of maintaining this school are
I shou'd think that it is effecting great good. The tone of it is good.
very great.
Every possible allowance should be made for defects. (Books and apparatus)-defi-
ciency of secular books. (Desks and furniture)-desks along wall.
Birmingham, St. Philip's. Inspected August 27, 1849.-Mixed, under master, mis-
tress, and apprentices. 2. Fair. 3. Fair; in some respects good. 5. Trained; is an
earnest-minded vigorous teacher, and has greatly improved his school.

Dilwyn. Iuspected August 29. 1849.-Desks along wail. Deficiency of secular
books in junior classes to be supplied. Organized in six classes under master and mis-
tress. Discipline fair; deficient in tone. Master untrained; possesses some good
qualifications; deficient in skill. With pains and proper instruction, may make an
efficient teacher. The greater part of the scholars absent, harvesting.

Malvern Link. Inspected August 31, 1849.-Mixed, uuder mistress and monitors.
2. Imperfect. 4. Imperfect. 5. Untrained; inefficient. 6. Deficiency of secular
books.

Tewkesbury, Trinity. Inspected September 3, 1849.-1, Infant system under master, mistress, and monitors. 2. Good. 5. Trained at home and colonial for four months; appears to be earnest in his work, and well qualified for his office. 6. The examination of this school with reference to apprenticeship took place on 4th April, 1849. Their declined to sanction apprenticeship on account of the unfavourable report Lordships, on condition of school, permitting however a future examination when managers should certify an improvement. This has been done. I am now able to state that the general condition of the school is much improved in all respects.

Tabulated Reports, in detail, by Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, the Rev. H. W. Bellairs-continued.

Number of

Children learning

No. of Children learning Number of Children | No. of Children

Writing on

Number of Children on the Books, aged

Arithmetic, as far as

Paper. Slates.

Reading

In ordinary Attendance.

Who have left within

the last 12 Months. Admitted within the last 12 Months.

Nailsworth. Inspected September 4, 1849,-A mixed school under mistress and
monitors. The discipline is imperfect; deficient in tone. The mistress is untrained;
her attainments low; is deficient in skill. The instruction is imperfect; reading
defective. No writing from dictation. Arithmetic imperfect. The religious instruc-
tion, which is mechanical, and irreverently given, imperfect. The writing-desks are
along the wall. The mistress is under notice to quit.

Gloucester, St. John's. Inspected September 5, 1849.-Girls under mistress and
assistant. Six classes. The discipline is fair. The instruction generally is ele-
mentary; more attention should be paid to the junior classes. The mistress is
untrained. She possesses a quiet, gentle manner with the children; is impressive in
her mode of teaching; somewhat deficient in vigour and skill; is likely to make a
valuable teacher. The writing-desks are along the wall. The floor is of asphalte; it
has a dirty appearance; wood would be an improvement. There is a deficiency of
secular books in the junior classes. From the general condition of the school, I should
think that considerable pains are bestowed upon it.

Gloucester, St. Katharine. Inspected September 6, 1849.-1. Six classes under mis-
tress, assistant, and monitors. 2. Fair. 3. Fair. More skill might be used with
advantage. There is a want of intelligence in the junior classes. 5. The mistress is
untrained. She bears a high character, and appears to be earnest in her work.
6. The writing-desks are along the wall. This school is erected on a part of the church-
yard of St. Katharine's. There are bodies lying under the school. The yard adjoining
is still used for burials. The average number of burials is from 30 to 40 per annum.
One of the doors of the school opens into the churchyard. The room is used for burial-
service, and for parish meetings.

Cheltenham, St. Peter's. Inspected September 7, 1849.-Infants under master, mis-
tress, and monitors. 2. Discipline good. 4. Instruction fair. 5. The master and
mistress untrained. He is rather heavy as a teacher. Fair school-keeper, under
notice to quit. The school is well supplied with apparatus.

St. George, Claines, Boys.' Inspected September 10, 1849.-1. Five classes, under
master and monitors. 2. Good. 3. Reading necessarily imperfect, from want of
secular reading-books. 5. Master possesses some good qualifications for his office;
appears to be earnest in his work, 6. Parallel desks ereeted during past year. Con-
dition of school improved.

St. George, Claines, Girls'. Inspected September 10, 1849.-1. Four classes, under
mistress. 2. Discipline moderate." 3. No secular reading-books. 5. The mistress,
untrained, does not pay sufficient attention to junior classes. The instruction of the
first class moderate; of the junior classes imperfect. The religious instruction of the
junior classes imperfect. Many children absent in both schools; holidays just over.
Dictation twice a-week. The mistress gives instruction to the third class three times
a-week; to the fourth, once and twice a-week.

Worcester, St. Martin's. Inspected February 20, 1849,-1. Five classes, under

4. Instruction.

5. Master and Mistress.

6. Special.

master, one apprentice, and circulating monitor. 2. Discipline good. 3. Instruction
good: lessons in Holy Scriptures, geography, and grammar. given simultaneously;
collective and class teaching. 5. Trained at Battersea; third class third division cer-
tificate. 6. Curtains placed since last year. School improved and improving. (Books
and apparatus)-deficiency of books and of maps; Europe, Scotland, and Ireland
wanting. (Desks and furniture)-desks in parallel rows; a graduated stage, separated
by curtains. Some cupboards for books wanting.

Worcester, St. Martin's. Inspected September 11, 1849.-School much improved in
all respects. Under certificated master and apprentice. Well supplied with apparatus
and books.

Holl and Witley. Inspected September 12, 1849.-1. Mixed: four classes, under
mistress. 2. Fair. 4. Very elementary. 5. Mistress untrained, deficient in skill.
No secular reading-books. The first class read Holy Bible; the second class read New
Testament.

Cheltenham. St. Paul's. Inspected September 19, 1849.-1. Infant system, under
mistress and four apprentices. 2. Good. 3. Simultaneous and class teaching. 5. A
good teacher and school-keeper: appears to be earnest in her work. (Books and
apparatus)-sufficient.

Watlington.-Inspected September 20, 1849.-Girls in six classes, under mistress
and monitors. The greater part of the children absent at harvest. There is a de-
ficiency of secular books for the first class and junior classes. Desks along the wall.
Mistress trained at Oxford.

Dudley, St. Thomas's, Boys'. Inspected September 26, 1849.-Parallel desks on floor,
imperfectly arranged. Boys in eight classes, under master and monitors. The dis-
cipline fair. Instruction in senior classes generally fair; in junior, imperfect. The
master possesses great energy, with some skill in teaching. A large portion of
children absent, the day being observed at Dudley as one of fasting, &c., on account of
the cholera.

Dudley, St. Thomas's, Girls'.-Inspected September 26, 1849.-Girls in six classes,
under mistress and monitors. Parallel desks, ill arranged, as gallery. The instruction
generally imperfect, especially in the junior classes. Intelligence low. More attention
should be paid to the religious instruction, which is given in the junior classes by girls
of 10 years old. The childreu are tolerably quiet, but the discipline is not of a high
order; it is deficient in tone. The mistress is energetic, but somewhat deficient

in skill.

Dudley, St. James's. Inspected September 27, 1849.-A Mixed school, imperfectly
organized, or no regular system. There is a gallery, in which they receive simul-
taneous lessons. The discipline and instruction very imperfect. The attainments and
intelligence of the children low. The mistress is untrained. She appears to do her
best, but is not equal to the work before her. There is a deficiency of secular reading-
books.

VOL. I.

Tabulated Reports, in detail, by Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, the Rev. H. W. Bellairs—continued.

Number of Children

learning

No. of Children learning

Arithmetic, as far as

Number of Children No. of Children Writing on

Paper.

Slates.

Reading

Number of Children on the Books, aged

In ordinary Attendance.

Who have left within

the last 12 months. Admitted within the last 12 months.

1 to 6 109

Cheltenham, St. Paul's.
Girls'

Chester, St. Mary's.

1 to 4

60

24

24

24

24

8

28 12 12 28

19

1

24 36

28

24 36

36

21 15 12 11 5 3 3 1

SUPPLEMENT.

1 to 4 g.

62

35

Cheltenham, St. John's
Boys

Alveston. Inspected October 1, 1849.-1. Four classes, mixel, under master and monitors. 2. Fair; not sufficient tone. 3. Class and collective. 5. Trained at Battersea; appears to possess air abilities and attainments; has had great difficulties to contend with, but does not seem to have effected that improvement which he might 6. Examined two candidates for apprenticeship. The condition of the have done. school will not permit me to recommend it to their Lordships as a fit place for pupilI have stated to the managers that I will, if possible, revisit the school in teachers. four months, with their Lordships' permission, to re-examine the school, (books and apparatus)-deficiency of secular reading books and maps; (desks and furniture)three parallel rows, a gallery.

5. Master and Mistress.

6. Special.