APPENDIX A. 2. Or the Parcel will be forwarded to any place nearest to the Manager's residence to which there is a mode of conveyance. In the latter IV. Book and case the Manager must point out the precise mode of conveyance by which the parcel is to be transmitted, and he must also defray the cost of carriage. Free Stock Lists. 3. When Parcels are forwarded to the Depot of a District it is not the duty of the Inspector to transmit the Parcel to the Manager's residence or to the School. 4. The Manager is required to send to the Depot on the day appointed by the Inspector for delivery of Parcels, a messenger who must present the order on the Inspector, with which the Manager will be furnished, and which order the Inspectors are required to transmit to this Office as a proof of the delivery of the Parcels. 5. If the Parcel is to be sent by a Carrier, he must call at this Office, not sooner than two days after the Manager's directions shall have been received, and must produce the Manager's order to the Store. keeper here, for its delivery. (Office hours, 10 to 4 o'clock.) GRATUITOUS STOCK. The Commissioners furnish to each School, when taken into connexion, a gratuitous stock of School Books, Tablets, &c., leaving the selection, from a list submitted by them to the Managers, and a further grant at the end of every three years; they are to be kept as a school stock, for which the Master or Mistress will be held responsible. The amount of the Grant is in proportion to the average attendance. These books are not to be sold, exchanged, or on any account to be taken out of the School-room, being a gratuitous stock for the use of the children during school hours only. APPENDIX B. Page 47 179 203 1.-REPORTS ON DISTRICT MODEL SCHOOLS, II.-REPORTS ON LECTURES, &c., DELIVERED IN CLONMEL III.-HEAD INSPECTORS' REPORTS ON SCHOOLS IN. SPECTED, The Commissioners have considered it desirable, that an opportunity should be afforded to the Head Inspectors of stating in their annual Reports their views upon various matters relating to the working of the National System in their respective Districts, and, incidentally, upon the subject of elementary education in different parts of Ireland; but the Commissioners wish it to be distinctly understood, that they do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed in the following Reports, nor do they feel called upon to adopt all the suggestions which they contai I.-HEAD AND DISTRICT INSPECTORS' REPORTS ON I. No. 1. JOINT REPORT on the ANNUAL EXAMINATIONS, held in the Bailieborough District Model National School, by JAMES PATTEN, M.D., Head Inspector, and EUGENE A. CONWELL, Esq., Local Inspector. January, 1852. GENTLEMEN-Agreeably to the instructions of the Commissioners, the first Annual Public Examination of the pupils attending the Bailieborough District Model School was held on the 23rd and 24th October last, a Joint Report on which, emanating from, and signed by, the respective clergy in the town and neighbourhood of Bailieborough, we have much gratification in annexing to this Special Report. -(See Note A.) In order to have an opportunity of fairly testing and ascertaining the merits of the pupils, to whom £10, in premiums, varying from 2s. 6d. to 10s., were about to be awarded, the classes of the boys' school were subjected to a minute and searching private examination by both of us, on every branch taught in the several classes, which lasted for three days, viz:-16th, 17th, and 18th October, and on the 20th and 21st the classes of the girls' school were similarly examined. The results of the answering upon each separate subject taught in the class were tabulated at the time; and from a careful analysis of these marks, after due consultation with the teachers as to the good conduct, diligence, &c., of the successful competitors in each class, the premiums were adjudged. On the 22nd we examined the Pupil Teachers, Agricultural Pupils, and Paid Monitresses on the various branches forming their respective programmes of study, and annex particulars. (See Notes B and C.) The Public Examination on branches of secular knowledge was held on the 23rd, in which, besides the parts taken by ourselves individually, one of the Pupil Teachers examined a class, the respective teachers each a class, and some of the more advanced children in the girls' school questioned one another on Geography, History, Mental Arithmetic, &c., which elicited the marked approbation of the visitors. The 24th was occupied by the parochial clergy in examination of their respective classes in religious knowledge, dach clergyman being provided with a separate room for this purpose. APPENDIX B. I. Reports on Bailieborough. APPENDIX B. Reports on District Model Schools. The female school-room (out of which the desks had been removed, and a temporary gallery constructed at one end, where the class under examination sat), was set apart for the public examination of the pupils of both schools; and Bailieborough. in addition to the handsome maps and natural history charts, &c., already most appropriately ornamenting its walls, it was tastefully decorated with wreaths of laurel, variegated holly, &c., interspersed with some rare flowers from Lady Young's conservatory. On tables in the girls' class-room were exhibited specimens of needlework and the copy-books of the children were arranged along the seats of the gallery, from which they were readily examined by the visitors. It being only five months since we carefully examined the several classes in these schools, a General Report of which, giving the analyses of the answering, as well as a minute account of the arrangements, rules, and regulations by which the establishment is managed in its several departments, was forwarded in May last, and published in Vol. I. of the Seventeenth Report of the Commissioners of National Education, we deem it only necessary at present. to advert to the general details. The following table will show the classification of the children at present on the rolls of the school :— |