H.B. Education Board.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 316, 25 June 1889, Page 2

H.B. Education Board.

The Committee having met to consider how best to provide for the teaching of elementary soienoe and object lessons in the Board schools under regulations 19 and 20 of the standards of instruction, recommended as follows :— 1. That only such apparatus and appliances be supplied to schools as are required to illustrate lessons on natural history form aud color, geography, English history, physiology, elementary botany, aud natural philosophy2. That for the class subject known as elementary science, in which instruction is compulsory fa Standards IV, V, and VI, a special text book be adopted in ad Htion to Dr .lessor Bickerton's Materials for Elementary Lenons in science, as recommended by the Education Department, 3. That Paul Bert's Year Book of Scientific Knowledge be tho text Book for all schools, and that teachers ba instructed accordingly. 4. That the text book for lnstruoU >n In object lesions under regularion 20 be Haesel'e Science tn Object Lenon*, and that all teachers bs required to use ihe same in the preparation of Standards 1,2, and 3, for examination. The Committee have approve 1 of the Issue of a circular letter to all teachers, asking for a copy of the syllabus of soienoe instruction adopted by them under regulation 19, and further requesting that a return be sent of |he apparatus and appliances in their several schools. As soon as the returns liavo been received the Commit ee will consider what apparatus and appliances are actually required to provide for the whole of the schools, when a recommendation will be made accordingly. Iu the meantime the Committee ask for a renewal of their powers until the next meeting of the Board.