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6. 



Psychological or other 

 Classification 



No (small staff). 



No. 



No. 



No. 



None. 



No. of Children who| 



reach Standard II. 



Proficiency 



Between 4 and 

 5 per cent ; 

 some can read 

 and not write ; 

 some of "dul- 

 lest ' good at 

 mental arith- 

 metic. 



Only eight out 

 of seventy - 

 five. 



One per cent. 



a. Extremely dull, inert cases 

 — occupations require 

 manual work. 



b. Nervous cases — more seden- 

 tary employment. 



c. Moral cases — almost en- 

 tirely manual work. 



About 2 

 cent. 



per 



Very few. 



About 'i percent. 



8. 



'rime for Manual Work. Nature 

 and Organisation of 



relation with 

 and under 



7 hr. 50 min. Older boys : gar- 

 dening, carpentry, rug-making, 

 &c. Older girls : cookery, 

 domestic work, needlework, &c. 

 &e. Younger children : kin- 

 dergarten ; it is the practical 

 basis of all instruction. 



i hr. Drawing, clay-modelling, 

 brush-work, paper folding and 

 cutting, paper-mat making, 

 rug-work, woodwork, cookery, 

 needlework, knitting. 



Brought into -«' 

 ordinary work, 

 control of H.T 



Younger children, lj£ hr. ; older 

 children, 7i hr. 



Preparatory to employment 

 after school age. A good 

 deal also in connection with 

 the elementary work, except 

 woodwork, done in school. 



7. 1 , hr. Girls: laundry, cookery, 

 needlework, knitting. Boys : 

 woodwork, boot-mending, 



basket-making, chair-caning. 

 Both : rugwork, clay-modelling, 

 paper-folding, mat-weaving. 

 Connected with ordinary class 

 work. Elementary taught by 

 means of manual. 



Older children, 8 hr. ; younger 

 children, b' hr. Boys : wood- 

 woik, chip carving, cobbling, 

 rug-making. Girls : needle- 

 work, housewifery, cookery, 

 &c. 



Yes, except older boys' wood- 

 work, and older girls' cookery. 



10 hr. Boot-repairing, wood- 

 carving, gardening, cookery, 

 housewifery, needlework, rug- 

 making, modelling 



Yes. 



