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I beg leave to suggest to the Board thit a uniform commencement of the Teachers engagements might not only facilitate the. supply of Teachers to vacant Schools, but also save trouble to the Board and its Olliceis.

I also suggest that the. keeping a Trustees’ book should be rigorously insisted on.

The Grammar School at Summerside. requires, I think, some special consideration, and I have there- fore made it the subject ot‘ a separate report.

Alberton, 21th Sept., 1864.

The past quarter aflhrds but little on which l can report. I have visited only fourteen School Dis- tricts, owing partly to the vacation, and partly to the season of the year, which is unfavm‘able to a full attendance at the schools.

I find a considerable increase in the number of children on the Teachers’ Journals, and the attend— ance is also much imprth d. This increase Would have been greater, had it not been for the alarm of Small Pox in Lot 65 and the neighbourhood, which led to the closing of some. schools, and to a short attendance at others. It has been suggested that the average number of scholars at all the schools should appear on the Visitor’s report. This average, however, can only be accurately gathered from the Teacher’s Journals. Any statement of the average, especially of those attending, taken on the various days of the visits, would be liable to daily alter— ation ,' but ifthe journals were checked against the

results of the inspection, a considerable degree of

accuracy might be obtained.

There are scvwal applications for new School Districts within my circuit ; and lean recommend all those with which I am locally acquainted, to the favourable consideration ot'the Board.

New school-houses have been built in six districts. Those at Park Corner, Upper VVestmorland and Kildare River, deserve particular notice, as highly creditable to the inhabitants. There are still a great number in need of repair or rebuilding. In school furniture there is rootn for considerable int— provement. Thirty schools are destitute ofa black- board; and in a touch larger number, Maps and Georgraphy books, more especially those relating to Prince Edward Island and the adjacent PI‘OVIHCOS, are deficient. A cupboard or other safe receptacle for the books, should also be provided.

In my last quarterly Report I adverted to the. merging of the two districts called the “ Union” and “South Kildare,” in Lot 4. The Report ot‘the commissioners has, no doubt, been laid before the Board; and I trust means may be devised to ensure the placing a school in the growing village ot'Alher- ton, without encroaching materially, on localities.

I have more than once recommended, in former reports, that a Trustees’ Book should be kept in each District. If'this were regularly done, so as to embrace all the school transactions of the District, as contemplated by the Act of Assembly, and if, at the same time, a copy or extract of the Register, showmg the boundaries of the District were entered

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ditlieulttes so frequently might be avoided.

As soon as the Board shall have determined on a renewed and enlarged list of books. it will he desir- able to print the amended “Regulations,” and to transmit a copy to each school, tor the inthrmation of the 'l‘rustees and 'l‘eachers.

Alberton, 534th Dec., 1564.

{ef‘urring to my Ileport on‘the Grammar School lately established at Summerside, antler date of 91th September, 186—], I beg leave to submit the t'ollow— ing as the results of my examination ol'that School, on the 25th ult.

At that time there were seventeen scholars in the school, being an increase ot ten over those present at my former examination. All of these were being taught the usual branches of an English Education, and appeared to be well grounded in the Common rules of Arithmetic, including the extraction ot‘ the Square. and Cube. Roots—tour were instructed in Algebra, and worked their stuns ver correctly and expeditiously. Seven were studying Geometry—- nine the French Language—nine the Latin—and one Greek. Ul' the Latin Scholars, three were in the Grammar, live reading l)electtts, and one in Virgil Those in Delectus translated and parsed very fairly, and the popil in Virgil remarkably well. The pupil in Greek was merely learning the Gram- mar, but appeared well grounded as for as he had gone. I“iVe ol'the scholars worked each a Problem in the first book of Euclid, in my presen and acquitted themselves very creditably.

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On the whole, 1 Consider that the School has very tnuch improved since my last visit.

I was inl'ormed that it was intended to remove the building to a more convenient site ; if so, I ltope it Will be placed ottt of the town, and that a play» ground for the Scholars will be provided.

Charlottetown, llth March, 1865.

During that part ofthe current quarter which has elapsed up to this date, I have made eighty-five visits to various Schools in the \Vestern Section of the Island, detailed particulars of which will appear in the Schedule to this report.

Ineed hardly repeat what I have stated in the reports already belore you: the fluctuations which take place in the attendance of the Children at SchOol, prevent the tracing any steady general pro- gress. On the whole, however, I see no reason to be dissatisfied with the state of the Schools. If a more regular attendance would be procured, it would be. much tnore satisfactory, but the early age at which children are required for field labours, renders this very dllicxtlt. The increased number studying Algebra. Mathematics and Book-keeping, indicates an improved tone in the general Education.

Three new School-houses have been erected, one at Cape Traverse, one in the new district of For- tune Cove, and one at St. Ignatius, in the Caven- dish Road; all are well adapted for the purpose.

The Union School-house, Lot 4, and St. Ann’s, Lot 0" are very much out of repair; but the fob

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