“REPORT ON MODEL SCHOOLS TO DUKE OF BEDFORD –
FROM THE COMMITTEE OF THE BRITISH SCHOOL”:
Method
- The British system, as now practised in the Central School, may properly be denominated ‘mixed simultaneous training’ being satisfactorily united with that which is monitorial.
- Course of Instruction two-fold: Intellectual and Moral and Religious.
- Scriptural Instruction is carried out in each department. Care is taken that in all cases intellectual development shall be made subordinate to moral training and solid instruction invariably preferred to any superficial acquirements however well they might serve for temporary effect.
JUNIOR DEPARTMENT
Intellectual
Moral & Religious
Monitorial Branch
Monitorial Branch
Reading Easy Lesson in Class
Scripture lessons Writing on slate and paper
- Arithmetic on slate and mental
- First lessons in Geography
- Interrogative exercises in words
Simultaneous Branch
Simultaneous Branch
Lessons in objects etc. in gallery with illustrations daily:
Moral lesson in gallery daily on blackboard
Subjects:
Subjects:
Silk
Skins
Kindness to Animals
Flax
Hemp
Speaking the Truth
Cotton
Corn
Love to Brothers and sisters
Paper
Glass etc.
Obedience to Parents
(vide Daily Lesson book 1&2)
Goodness of God
(In imparting these scriptures lessons are practically applied)
SENIOR DEPARTMENT
Intellectual
Moral & Religious
Monitorial Branch
Monitorial Branch
Reading Prose & Poetry with Analysis
Bible reading & questioning to the utmost extent
Writing on slate and paper; including the repetition of portions
Slate and mental arithmetic with analysis
Geography and General History
English Grammar
Drawing – its application to Maps and Charts
Objects of Natural History
Mechanics and Machinery
Architecture
Natural Philosophy including elements of Mechanics, optics
Simultaneous Branch
Simultaneous Branch
Singing by notes and in parts
Moral lessons in the Gallery daily.
Lesson in Gallery illustrated by Subjects:-
Improvement of mind
Apparatus, models
Evils of infidelity
Drawings
Evils of Pride
Subjects On cleanliness
Evils of self-conceits
Various kinds of machinery
On temptation
Specimens of Natural History
On injuring property
Grasses, roots flowers etc
On cruelty to animals
Specimen of mineral earths etc.
On profane swearing
(Vide Daily Lesson Book 3)
On keeping the Sabbath
On slavery, war etc.
In all the lessons it is designed that scriptural instruction should be brought practically to bear on the conscience: all duty be enforced on the principles of the gospel and from the word of God, and all sin shown to be displeasing to the saviour and therefore be hated and shunned.
By Order of the Committee, Henry Dunn, Secretary”