First report of the Royal Commissioners appointed to inquire into the endowed schools and hospitals (Scotland) : with evidence and appendix / [chairman, Sir Edward Colebrooke].

  • Scotland. Endowed Schools Commission.
Date:
1873
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Credit: First report of the Royal Commissioners appointed to inquire into the endowed schools and hospitals (Scotland) : with evidence and appendix / [chairman, Sir Edward Colebrooke]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    .10.0—1.0 In School. 1.0—2.0 Dinner and Recreation. 2.0—4.0 In School. 4.0—6.0 Recreation. Tea at Five. 6.0—8.0 Preparing School Lessons. 8.0—9.0 Private Reading, or Fireside Amusements. 9.0—10.0 Evening Prayers, and to Bed. Breakfast.—Oatmeal porridge and sweet milk daily. In forenoon a piece of bread with occasionally fruit, and in winter bread with butter. Dinner.—Butcher meat with broth and bread, three times a week. Broth and bread with cheese, twice a week. Soup and bread once a week. Soup or broth with bread and suet dumpling, once a week, varied by the substitution of rice with milk and bread ; eggs, with bread and butter and milk, or potatoes and fish. At five o'clock, tea with bread and butter; and between eight and nine, a roll or piece of bread; jam or jelly being added on Sundays. Also occasional treats of strawberries, gooseberries, apples or pears, or the like, in their season, when the Trustees pay their periodical visits, and express satisfaction with the conduct and progress of the boys. III. Instruction. 1. From the humbler classes. Father of 1 a writer, S.S.C., who be- came bankrupt; 1 an engineman; 1 a gardener ; 3 or 4 farm servants, or labourers, or seamen ; 4 or 5 tradesmen, small grocers, or shopmen. 2. No. 3. Time-table herewith, and follows. No industrial instruction given except in cultivating small flower gardens, and dressing shrubbery and gravel walks under supervision of Master. Instruction Time-Table. 1st Hour. Religious Instruction, Bible, and Shorter Catechism. 2d „ English and History Lessons. 3d ,, Grammar, Latin, French. 4th „ Writing and Junior English. 5th ,, Arithmetic and Geography, or Dictation. 4. Scripture Knowledge.—Judges, I. and II. Samuel. English.—Most of the poetry in Ewing's Principles of Elocution. History.—England, to end of House of York, from ' Collier's British Empire.' Grammar. To end of complex sentences, from ' Dalgleish's Grammatical Analysis.' Geography.—England, Europe, and Asia in detail. Arithmetic.—To ex- traction of square root. Latin.—To end of fables from ' Dr. Bryce's First Latin Reader.' French.-—Parts I. and III. from 'Hall's First French Course.' 5. Reading of the Bible, with occasional explanatory remarks in ac- cordance with the doctrinal teaching of the Westminster Assembly's Shorter Catechism. Sunday time-table given herewith. Time-Table for Sunday. 9.0—10.0 Morning Prayers. Private Reading. 10.0—11.0 Change Dress, and otherwise Prepare for Church 11.0—1.0 At Church. 1.0—2.0 Dinner. Walk in Grounds. 2.0—4.0 At Church. 4.0—5.0 Walk in Grounds.