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The Girls' School.
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ImpbovemeN't in the education afforded in our schools is no new street for us to advocate ; our readers will therefore not be surprised when we express the satisfaction ; we have derived irom the perusal and consideration of the report of ^ education given irx the ]? reem ^
there are sqme of the governors who object to al ^ management , arguing that wbat has sufficed for those who have already passed through t ^ "with so much credit ignoring the progress that has been ma ^
class of the comm schools , fc difficulty , from the opposition of this class of persons , that the distinguishing— we had almost said degradiiig----badge on the sleeve of the children's frocks was done away with two or three years since , and the dress to some extent modernized . And on the death of
Mrs . Crook , who had been the matron and mistress of the school for upwards of fifty years , they would , if they could , have continued her system of education through her successor . We should be sorry to speak in other than the most approving terms of the services of so zealous and devoted a servant of the institution as was
Mrs . Crook ; and yet we cannot but feel that the length of time which she held her office was rather detrimental than otherwise , as preventing the gradual introduction of improved methods of instruction into the school , so as to enable it to keep pace with the growing tion into tne senool , so as to enable it to Keep pace wit a pne growing
intelligence of the times . That Mrs . Crook did give the children a good , sound , moral education , the annals of the school leave no doubt ; but there js as little doubt that the position of domestic servants ( or to return to their families but half educated ) was the only one for which they were fitted on leaving the school .
At the death of Mrs . Crook we , with others , laboured in some measure to improve the school , and so far prevailed as to obtain the appointment of Miss Souter—a young lady bearing a high government certificate of her proficiency—as goyerness ; whilst Miss
Jarwood , who was brought up in the school , and had long been the assistant of Mrs . Crook , was intrusted with the duties of matron . So far the arrangement was most satisfactory ; and how well the last-named lady has discharged her duties is borne testimony to by the committee , who & tate that with regard to the performance of tQU XT . 3 A
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Girls' School.
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ImpbovemeN't in the education afforded in our schools is no new street for us to advocate ; our readers will therefore not be surprised when we express the satisfaction ; we have derived irom the perusal and consideration of the report of ^ education given irx the ]? reem ^
there are sqme of the governors who object to al ^ management , arguing that wbat has sufficed for those who have already passed through t ^ "with so much credit ignoring the progress that has been ma ^
class of the comm schools , fc difficulty , from the opposition of this class of persons , that the distinguishing— we had almost said degradiiig----badge on the sleeve of the children's frocks was done away with two or three years since , and the dress to some extent modernized . And on the death of
Mrs . Crook , who had been the matron and mistress of the school for upwards of fifty years , they would , if they could , have continued her system of education through her successor . We should be sorry to speak in other than the most approving terms of the services of so zealous and devoted a servant of the institution as was
Mrs . Crook ; and yet we cannot but feel that the length of time which she held her office was rather detrimental than otherwise , as preventing the gradual introduction of improved methods of instruction into the school , so as to enable it to keep pace with the growing tion into tne senool , so as to enable it to Keep pace wit a pne growing
intelligence of the times . That Mrs . Crook did give the children a good , sound , moral education , the annals of the school leave no doubt ; but there js as little doubt that the position of domestic servants ( or to return to their families but half educated ) was the only one for which they were fitted on leaving the school .
At the death of Mrs . Crook we , with others , laboured in some measure to improve the school , and so far prevailed as to obtain the appointment of Miss Souter—a young lady bearing a high government certificate of her proficiency—as goyerness ; whilst Miss
Jarwood , who was brought up in the school , and had long been the assistant of Mrs . Crook , was intrusted with the duties of matron . So far the arrangement was most satisfactory ; and how well the last-named lady has discharged her duties is borne testimony to by the committee , who & tate that with regard to the performance of tQU XT . 3 A