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I. Reports on
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APPENDIX B. ments. They have not only given a special grant of Free Stock, and a salary to an Assistant Teacher, but also most considerately granted 157. a year in lieu of fees paid formerly by pupils who now attend the Model Schools. The Commissioners have thus made a most satisfactory provision for the literary and religious instruction of children whose parents could not pay even the small fee required at the Model Schools.

Dunmanway.

Of the working of these latter, I am happy to have an opportunity of expressing my entire approbation. Since their establishment in 1849, my curates and myself have experienced every facility for giving religious instruction; and I can also bear testimony to the regularity and efficiency with which it is imparted under my direction by the excellent Teachers placed over this establishment by the Commissioners. The exemplary conduct, moreover, of the Teachers, and also of the Pupil-Teachers and Monitresses, together with their attention to their religious duties, deserves the strongest commendation that I could give.

That the peasant's child can, in such circumstances, get in these schools a literary education which formerly wealth could not have commanded, is a most gratifying reflection. There can be no doubt that habits of order, cleanliness, punctuality, and industry, are also being contracted by the children in attendance at these schools. The improvement of the girls, especially in needlework, is now generally remarked, and very many will in consequence be enabled to earn a respectable livelihood, whether they finally settle down in their own country, or are borne by the tide of emigration to some foreign land.

It is but due to all the officers of the National Board that I should express my grateful recollection of the attention they invariably pay to any suggestion of mine in reference to these schools; and their desire to see religious instruction fully and fairly carried out will be evident, when I mention that even Protestant Inspectors evinced, on several occasions, a desire that it should be imparted by ourselves to the Catholic children more frequently than our other duties allowed my curates or myself.

Accept, my dear sir, the expression of my most sincere thanks to yourself personally, for the large share you had in securing such important advantages for my parishioners.

I am yours, most truly,
(Signed,)

JOHN KELLEHER, P.P.

James W. Kavanagh, Esq., Head Inspector,

Monkstown, Cork.

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OCCUPATION of PARENTS of 230 PUPILS on the SCHOOL-ROLLS, I. Reports on

November 22nd, 1851.

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CLASSIFICATION of 230 PUPILS on the ROLLS, for Week ending

November 22nd, 1851.

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APPENDIX B.

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APPENDIX D.

AGES of 238 PUPILS ON SCHOOL-ROLLS, February 28th, 1852.

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Average age of each boy 10.8, and of each girl 10-5 years: 45, or one-fifth of the whole, are 7 years of age, or under, and should be in an Infant school.

APPENDIX E.

AMOUNT OF REQUISITES sold to the PUPILS at REDUCED RATES,

during each Year.

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No. 7.-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT on the CLONMEL DISTRICT
MODEL SCHOOLS, by JAMES W. KAVANAGH, Esq., Head
Inspector of National Schools.

Clonmel, April 5th, 1852. GENTLEMEN,-I have the honour to submit for the information of the Commissioners this, my Third Annual Report on the Clonmel District Model Schools.

Having in the Reports for 1849 and 1850 given a detailed statement of the buildings; the accommodation for pupils and for Pupil-Teachers; the course of instruction and occupation of time in the several departments; the staff of Teachers, Pupil-Teachers, and Paid Monitresses; the arrangement for religious instruction, and the opinions of the local clergy of all denominations in relation to the practical working thereof; the mixture of social ranks, and of religious denominations in the schools; the rates of school-fees, and the incomes of the Teachers; the influence the schools have exercised in improving the efficiency of the several National and other schools in the town and neighbourhood, and in elevating the social position of the Teacher; and having in the last Report given a full outline of the entire course of English, Mathematical, Scientific, and Industrial Education which we aim at imparting, whenever the accommodation for the pupils shall be properly extended, I shall

on this occasion refer to those Reports for this information, and APPEndix B, confine my present statement to such points only as are of I. Reports on more especial interest, or such as are necessary to record the District Model progress of the establishment during the past year.

Buildings and School Accommodation. The schools, from the period of their opening, had an attendance, at least in the Boys' and in the Girls' schools, far beyond what they were designed to accommodate; and two rooms in the domestic establishment have since been used as additional temporary school-rooms. Even this arrangement provides quite insuffi cient room; and such use is attended with loss of time, interference with discipline, imperfect cleanliness and ventilation, and the rooms being remote from the schools, withdraws the pupils from the central superintendence of the Head Teachers. In summer 1850 the schools were visited by the Archbishop of Dublin, and on that occasion I had the honour to point out these defects to his Grace, and at his request to forward to him a report on the subject, which report I was led to understand his Grace was pleased to recommend to the favourable consideration of the Commissioners for their adoption. The Board's Architect, and I, were then instructed to arrange a meeting at the schools, in order to consider the means of extending them; and after our inspection of the premises, I forwarded my report to the Office, and the Architect also submitted his plans on the subject. The year 1850 passed on, and the crowded rooms, unenclosed lawn, and unfinished play-grounds still continued; the Commissioners, as I understand, deeming the expense of the proposed plans too great, and desirous to further test their necessity in the permanent success of the schools. From week to week Dr. Clarke, the District Inspector, continued to report the inconvenience felt from the state of the schools and premises; and in November last, Mr. Cross, one of the Board's Secretaries, Mr. Darley, Architect, and I, went to Clonmel for the purpose of inspecting the designed extension of the buildings, and that Mr. Cross might, from the state of the schools, be able to report to the Commissioners on the propriety of carrying out the proposed plans.

My recommendations respecting the extension of the buildings are that the Boys' school-room be increased to double its present length, and have a class-room added so as to afford, in both, accommodation to 200 boys; that the Girls' room be lengthened, and have a class-room (to serve also as a work-room) added so as to accommodate 140 girls; that the Infants' room remain as it is; that the internal communication between the three schools be closed; that the Master's parlour and the study-room be thrown into one school-room for a Classical

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and a senior class, and in the mornings and evenings to serve as a study-room for the Pupil-Teachers; that a short wing be added to the west of the house, containing a good parlour for the Head Master, and above, two bed-rooms for him; that his present bed-room, &c., be fitted up so as to provide dormitories for a total number of 16 Pupil-Teachers; that a small sittingroom be furnished for the second Master; that the playgrounds be extended, levelled, and completely finished; that the grounds and premises be enclosed by railing, and the lawn tastefully laid out and planted; that a small neat gatelodge be built in front, and that the field opposite the house be taken and laid out in a neat garden to supply vegetables, &c., to the establishment, and in which the Pupil-Teachers might occasionally work, both for recreation and instruction. I trust that the Commissioners may be pleased to direct steps to be taken which will insure the completion of these improvements before the close of the present year.

Number and Attendance of Pupils.-In my last Report I stated that the number on the Roll in the Boys' school had been fixed at 140, and I have now to report that, during the entire year, the average number was 138, the vacations, and a slight falling off in January and December, causing a decrease of two in the year's average; the average number on the Roll of the Girls' school was 93, and in the Infants' school 79, or a total of 310 as compared with 330 in the year 1850. This exhibits the fixed and permanent character of the schools, and the estimation in which they continue to be held by the parents and the public; and the regularity of the pupils' daily attendance being on the average 83 present out of every 100 on the Rolls, or precisely as in 1850, shows that the rules on this head have been carried out in a similar manner, and with similar results. The per centage of attendance for each 100 children on the Rolls was, in the Boys' 95,Girls' 85, and Infants' school 77, which must be regarded as remarkably high, especially that in the Boys' school. The following Table shows the numbers, &c., at different periods :—

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