OF THE Get. Britain. COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION : WITH APPENDICES. 1840-41. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET, For Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1841. INSTRUCTIONS to INSPECTORS of SCHOOLS PAGE 1 21 SUPPLEMENTARY MINUTE respecting the mode of conducting ap- plications for AID from the PARLIAMENTARY GRANT INSTRUCTIONS respecting the mode of answering the questions, CIRCULAR TO MINING PROPRIETORS in MONMOUTHSHIRE MEMORIAL from Sir Thomas Philips of NEWPORT REPLY thereto by the Secretary of the COMMITTEE of COUNCIL MINUTE on constructive methods of Teaching Reading, Writ- STATISTICS of APPLICATIONS for AID from the PARLIAMENTARY GRANT which have been considered and determined by the COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL on EDUCATION, in the year 1840-1 INSTRUCTIONS respecting an Inquiry into the state of Elementary REPORT on the state of Elementary Education in the above Districts, by the Rev. John Allen, Her Majesty's Inspector INSTRUCTIONS respecting an Inquiry into the state of Elementary REPORT On the state of Elementary Education in the above REPORT On the state of Education in the Mining Districts of CORRESPONDENCE respecting GREENWICH HOSPITAL SCHOOLS REPORT on the state of the Schools connected with GREENWICH HOSPITAL, by Seymour Tremenheere, Esq. REPORT on the state of Elementary Education in the Presbyteries of Haddington and Dunbar, by John Gibson, Esq., Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools in Scotland Special Reports on Schools inspected, ditto REPORT On the state of several Schools in the Counties of Chester, REPORT On the Glasgow Normal Seminary, by John Gibson, Esq. 412 REPORT on the state of Elementary Education in Norfolk, by FORMS OF CONVEYANCE. 2. Conveyance of a Site or Buildings to Trustees for a School on the plan of the British and Foreign School Society. 468 3. Conveyance of a Site or Buildings to Trustees for a Parish School not being in connexion with the National or the British and Foreign School Society 4. Conveyance of a Site or Buildings to Trustees for a Church of England School,, not being a Parish School nor in connexion with the National or British and 5. Conveyance of a Site or Buildings to. Trustees for a School not being a Parish School nor in connexion with the National or British and Foreign School Society 6. Conveyance of a Site or Buildings by a Spiritual Corpo- ration Sole, with the consent of the Bishop, for a Na- 7. Conveyance of a Site or Buildings by a Spiritual Corpo- MINUTES OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION. SIR, 1840-1. I.-INSTRUCTIONS TO INSPECTORS OF SCHOOLS. Committee of Council on Education, Council Office, Whitehall, August 1840. 1. Her Majesty having been graciously pleased, on the recommendation of the Committee of Council, to appoint you one of the Inspectors of Schools, the Committee request your attention to the enclosed paper of instructions, with the documents thereto annexed, for your guidance in the discharge of the duties which will devolve on you. 2. While an important part of these duties will consist in visiting, from time to time, schools aided by grants of public money made by the authority of the Committee, in order to ascertain that the grant has in each case been duly applied, and to enable you to furnish accurate information as to the discipline, management, and methods of instruction pursued in such schools, your appointment is intended to embrace a more comprehensive sphere of duty. 3. In superintending the application of the Parliamentary grant for public education in Great Britain, my Lords have in view the encouragement of local efforts for the improvement and extension of elementary education, whether made by voluntary associations or by private individuals. The employment of Inspectors is therefore intended to advance this object, by affording to the promoters of schools an opportunity of ascertaining, at the periodical visits of inspection, what improvements in the apparatus and internal arrangement of schools, in school management and discipline, and in the methods of teaching, have been sanctioned by the most extensive experience. 4. The inspection of schools aided by public grants is, in this respect, a means of co-operation between the Government and the committees and superintendents of schools, by which information respecting all remarkable improvements may be diffused whenever it is sought; you will therefore be careful, at visits of inspection, to communicate with the *[parochial clergyman, or other minister of religion,] connected with the school, and with the * In relation to the elementary schools of Scotland, the following passage is added in lieu of the words within brackets:-[presbytery of B |