1920. Aug. The full number of days in the half school year ending 4 February next is 107. Calendar 1920-21. 23 First Quarter of School term began. 6 Labor Day (holiday). Normal College opened at Truro. Last day for posting Annual rate-roll of Section. Last teaching day before Christmas vacation. Jan. Jan. 27 Feb. Feb. 7 March 10 Schools reopen. Normal Junior Class (D) Completes Course. 4 First Half of School Year ends. Third Quarter of School Term begins. 7 March Annual School Meeting of School Section March 25 Good Friday (holiday). 18 Fourth Quarter of School Term begins. H. School Exam. App. due at Inspectors' Offices. 6 Arbor Day. Inspectors' Exam. lists due, Education Office. May 24. Victoria Day (holiday). King's Birthday (holiday) June 23 Normal College Closes Provincial High School Exams. Commence. The Special Statistics. to be entered into columns 150 (a, b and c) of the School Register for transference into the Annual Return, 1920, are as follows: 150 (a). How many of the pupils enrolled (on the Register) within the school year have been vaccinated before August last? 150 (b) How many have been vaccinated within the present school year? 150 (c) How many were admitted without vaccination on medical certificate or legal declaration as specified in Section 48, of the Public Health Act? All Teachers are assumed to be vaccinated or immune to smallpox when certified that they were "physically fitted for effective teaching." All Pupils of schools public or private, according to section 48 of the Public Health Act and its amendments are required to present on entering school a medical certificate either of (a) successful vaccination, or (b) having had smallpox, or (c) vaccination temporarily inadvisable on account of health; or (d) to present the Conscientious Objector's Declaration in the form prescribed by the Act. No School will be recognized as legal in which the teacher accepts less than the prescribed minimum salary. The Manual of School Law, it is hoped, will be printed before the issue of the next Journal. The Cancellation of the License, Class B, No. 92 of 1914, awarded Victor Byron Robinson of Canning, later of Alberta, is hereby published. Teachers and School Trustees are advised to take care of the old School Manuals and Journals of Education, for they must continue to be the sole authorities on school law until the new Manual is issued. The Education Office cannot supply such information in the meantime. Teachers who cooperate with Government Departments in reporting on Scientific, Industrial, and such public problems, are not only patriotic sustainers of government, but are educating themselves and their pupils for the larger life of the modern state. School Text Books. Readers: Previous to the opening of schools in August, 1920, the Education Department had ordered to be printed, quantities of the N. S. Primer and Readers I to IV, deemed sufficient to meet the requirements of the current school year. No further supply can be printed. The term of prescription of these Readers ceases with the ending of the present school year, June, 1921. The stock of Readers at the Nova Scotia School Book Bureau is getting low, and by January may run out, especially in the Primer, and Readers I and II. As stock cannot be replenished teachers must caution the pupils to take the greatest care of the Readers now in their possession, so that the copy they now have may last out the school year. The caution applies equally to other texts, owing to scarcity of book paper. Arithmetic and Health Reader: Arithmetic, Part I and Arithmetic Part II were late in arriving from publishers, as was also "How to be Healthy," the book prescribed as a Health Reader in place of "Ontario Public School Hygiene." Arithmetics arrived in October and "How to be Healthy" in November, and generally, before 23 November, all back orders had been filled. The Bureau has a large stock of Arithmetics, but only part of order of "How to be Healthy" was received. Publishers are working on further supply which should be ready by January. Grade IX English: Longfellow's "Evangeline" is prescribed in addition to "Selections-Dickens and Ruskin." It was omitted from High School Program in April Journal, but all schools were notified by special circular, calling attention to the omission. Prices of School Texts. The following books have changed in price since publication of April Journal. N. S. Public School Speller, is now .35c. the copy. "How to be Healthy" is now .65c the copy. All other information with respect to N. S. School Book Bureau may be found in full in the April, 1920, Journal. New Readers. The cost of paper and printing is still mounting. Publishers in some cases are helpless in getting paper even at greatly advanced prices, we are most credibly informed. It is hoped this aftermath of the World War may soon also pass away; but we have yet to deal with it in getting our new books, and also even in getting some of the old ones. The New Readers for Grades I and II are expected in January at the Bureau; so that if old Readers are unobtainable, the New Readers may be introduced before the beginning of the next school year, Minimum Salary Corrections. Guysboro, Fisherman's Harbor, No. 33, $275. New Arithmetic Prescriptions. As the new Common School Arithmetic has been revised since the Prescriptions in the April 1920, Journal were published, it was found the following would better fit the changed arrangement in portions of the new texts: Grade IV-Part I to end of page 147. Grade V.—Part I Complete with oral lesson on Fractions as in Part II from page 58. Grade VI.-Part II to end of page 137. Grade VII.-Part II to end of Exercise 8, page 194. Grade VIII.- Part II completed and reviewed. The New School Inspector. Bradford Rhodes Hall, B. A., M. A., Principal of the High School, Parrsboro, has been appointed Inspector of Schools for the County of Cumberland. His office at present is in Parrsboro. The Cadet Camp. for next year is proposed to be fixed for 11 July in Nova Scotia. Applicants for Cadet Instructors' Courses. should report with the appropriate information to the Superintendent of Education who will keep the Applications on file until the date and place of such course is determined. Applications will be filed in the order in which they are presented. COMMENTS. Prizes, Scholarships. In the April, 1920, Journal of Education, pages 222 and 223 will be found the regulations govening the Scholarships or Bursaries of the Imperial Order, Daughters of the Empire, in Canadian Universities. The eligibility of candidates for scholarships in Canadian Universities will be decided before the first day of May henceforward. Candidates should therefore send in evidence of eligibility early in the year. The Overseas Post-Graduate Scholarships blanks for application, can be had from the same authorities. Teachers are recommended to utilize the stimulus to essay writing and study by getting their pupils to compete for the Prizes, offered by Lord Meath, the Royal Colonial Institute, etc. as shown on pages 258, 259 and preceding, etc. Nova Scotia did not show up very well last year in the proportion of Cadets to the total school population, according to the report on page 215. Yet Nova Scotia started the Physical Training boom in Canada and was the only province acting when the Strathcona fund of half a million for the work was first begun by a quarter million donation from Lord Strath cona. The Age-Grade Tables, pages 209 to 211 in the April Journal of 1920 should be carefully studied by teachers with a view to making out correct returns at the end of the year. |