X. EQUIPMENT. [The Headmaster was asked to send with his answers the Prospectus of the A. SCHOOL. School.] [If there are any girls in the school please show the numbers separately.] 2. Is the school for boarders only, or for day boys only, or for both? 4. Are the school books the property of the boys or of the school! 2. In planning class rooms, how many square feet would you advise to be allowed for each boy? 3. Number of bedrooms? 4. In planning a school boarding-house, does your experience lead you to recommend separate cubicles or bedrooms containing a number of open beds? 5. In sleeping rooms, how many cubic feet do you think should be allowed for each boy? 6. If you recommend bedrooms with open beds, instead of cubicles, what does your experience lead you to advise as the maximum number of beds which should be allowed in any room! C. OUTDOOR. 1. Extent of play-ground? 2. Have you a sanatorium? Is it detached? 3. Have you a school chapel? 4333. 2 L 7. Have you a carpenter's shop for manual instruction? Instructor, resident or visiting? S. Have the boys gardens? NOTE. Suggestions on any of the following points of Equipment will be (i.) Methods of lighting-Gas? Oil lamps? (ii.) Methods of ventilation of school rooms and bedrooms. (iii.) Methods of warming-Open fires? Hot-water pipes (iv.) Does your experience lead you to recommend any special forms of sanitary arrangement? (v.) Is it advisable to have separate rooms for- School library? Music room? Museum? Play room? (vi.) If you have a school museum, is it confined to natural history collections? Is it much used? Do the boys help to manage it? Is it useful as a collection of objects for use in various lessons on natural history? geography? (vii.) School desks? Should they be single or continuous? Fixed or reversible? Should each boy have a private cupboard for books and other possessions? (viii.) Do you use a lantern for illustration of any lessons? XI.-PREPARATORY SCHOOLS UNDER LADY PRINCIPALS. 1. How long has your school existed? 2. How many boys have you? 3. At what age do you receive boys? 4. Up to what age d Do you keep them generally, or ever, till they pass on to a Public School? Or do you usually send them on to some other Preparatory School kept by a Master? 5. Do you admit girls, as well as boys, to your school? If so, how many pupils have you in all? 7. Do you keep in your own hands, or delegate to a Master, the chief authority (i) Educational? (ii) Moral and Disciplinary? 8. What provision do you make for games? 9. Have you formed any opinion as to the most valuable kind of training for the work of teaching in a Preparatory School? Would you have it include a theoretical, as well as a practical side? If so, in what subjects? BOARD OF EDUCATION LIBRARY, ST. STEPHEN'S HOUSE, CANNON ROW, S.W. The Reference Library of the Roard of Education is open to readers daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Saturdays to 2 p.m.), except on the days on which the Department is closed, viz.:New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Eve, Easter Monday the Queen's Birthday, Whit Monday, three days at Christmas, and any other days that may from time to time be fixed as public holidays. The Library contains foreign and other official reports on public education and copies of British and foreign educational newspapers and magazines. The greater part of the English and foreign works on pedagogy and educational administration, formerly kept at the South Kensington Museum, have been transferred to, and amalgamated with, the Reference Library of the Board; but the books on Natural Science, as well as the general section of the Library and the works of reference needed by students preparing themselves for examinations, remain, as heretofore, in the Science Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. Presented to botb bouses of Parliament by Command of ber Majesty. PRINTED FOR HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE And to be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from EYRE & SPOTTIS WOODE, EAST HARDING STREET, FLEET STREET, E.C.; and 32, ABINGDON STREET, WESTMINSTER, S. W.; or JOHN MENZIES & Co., ROSE STREET, EDINBURGH, and 90, WEST NILE STREET, GLASGOW; or HODGES, FIGGIS & CO., LIMITED, 104, GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN. [Cd. 419.] Price 6d. |