King Edward's Schools ... 1885 [annual report].

  • Bridewell Royal Hospital. King Edward's Schools.
Date:
[1886?]
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Credit: King Edward's Schools ... 1885 [annual report]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Managers of the competing schools, arising from the impres¬ sion that our hoys have exceptional advantages. I pointed out that, our School being a half-time one, there was really no cause for such a feeling; and that, considering we only give 15 J hours a week to distinctly school work, the number of attendances is not much, if at all, greater than in ordinary National Schools. But I thought it, on the whole, advisable to withdraw the School from a competition which was deemed, rightly or wrongly, unfair to the rest of the Diocese. I distinctly declined the Inspector’s offer to put our boys in a list by themselves. Three Pupil Teachers for the Girls’ School attended the Rochester Diocesan Examination in May, 1885, two passing in the first class, and the other in the second. The fourth Pupil Teacher was not appointed before December last. I present the Reports of the Government and Diocesan Inspectors.— DIOCESAN REPORTS. Boys. Knowledge of Old Testament. New Testament. Catechism. Upper .... — — — Lower .... — — — Repetition of Scripture. Collects. Catechism. Upper .... — — — Lower .... — — — “ It is needless to fill up the above table, as every subject may be marked “ Very Good ” throughout the School. J. W. GEDGE, April 1 \th, 1885. Diocesan Inspector.”