Martha Binns teacher Certificate 4^th Class 2^nd Grade

The report of her Majesty's Inspector W. Bailey Esq.

"This school is managed with kindness and is in a creditable condition."

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Certificate 4^th Class 2^nd Grade

This is a good Infants School the singing and exercises are well done, and the other attainments are satisfactory.

" This school is well taught and appears likely to prosper under the new Mistress. The singing and exercises are very good"

L. Hudson Needlework (unsatisfactory)

" The new room that has been built for the infants is a very well fitted & cheerful room, but it should have some ventilation at the top. At present the windows will only open at a point less than half way up, so that the hot air, and vapour from the gas could not escape. The infants are remarkably well taught, the school is in every way in a very satisfactory state.

L. Hudson arithmetic (unsatisfactory).

" The children are bright and intelligent but the work could be made more interesting and varied if better arrangements were made for object lessons and lessons on form and colour.

Some attempt also might be made to teach sewing and knitting. The singing should improve, but on the whole there is some very good work done in the school and it promises to become very efficient."

I find the girls very backward with their sewing especially the younger ones

Holiday while Tuesday for "Haworth Tide"

" The School is carried on with efficiency under the new Mistress.

The attainments are satisfactory except in singing which is unusually harsh and requires a good deal of pains to make it musical"

The above Report should have been written on page 158

The attendance during the week has been very poor in consequence of the stormy weather. Several of the Committee visited the School during the week.

The children are orderly; the instruction will I trust improve under the present Mistress, especially in the elements of Reading Writing and Arithmetic. It is not however a satisfactory arrangement that the Infants should be left under the charge of a Monitor only, while the Mistress takes the girls of the Mixed School for sewing in a separate room. A statement of the School Staff and the signature of the correspondent should be appended to the copy of the report in the log book. The Admission Register should be kept according to circular 65 and when the children are upon any occasion dismissed before the expiration of the prescribed time all the attendances should be cancelled.

Janet H. Shiel Certificated teacher (Second Grade)Second Division

Mary Howker Paid Monitor

Nuts, an orange and a Christmas card were given to each child present.

Average 41.4 Pence. 11/-

Little Ada Briggs one of our scholars was buried last week

" The children are rather restless. Their attainments are moderate in Reading and writing and imperfect in the elements of number. I am glad to find them organised as a separate Department, but they cannot be recognised as such if the mistress continues to teach sewing to the girls of the mixed Department in any part of the time forming a school meeting for the Infants.

The Infants sewing is very moderate. The desks should have footrests, and the roof be made watertight.

I certify that the above is a correct copy of the report.

Austin Davey