Report of the High School Committee for the Year 1875
The school now consist of 3 houses with accommodation for 250 girls. The school is full.
There are now a Headmistress, 10 assistant mistresses and 8 other teachers of specific subjects. General comments on the good standard of attendance and health of pupils. The Exhibition for the daughter of a clergyman has been awarded to Mary Geden.
The Exhibition for the daughter of a doctor has been awarded to Elizabeth Harrison. Thanks to Prof Wilkins and the Dean of Manchester who examined candidates for these Exhibitions.
Thanks to Dr Bridge and Edward Hecht for examined the standard of music in the school.
Report on the High School for Girls, Manchester by the Rev T Stevens, Magdalene College, Cambridge, Vicar of St Luke's, London E. and the Rev I J Sanderson, Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, Vicar of Litlington, [sic] Cambs.
The examinations were conducted between 5 and 14 December.
The addition of another house gives the school 12 "regular classrooms" and 4 other rooms partly used for teaching and partly for recreation and eating. There is need of a larger room which will hold more than one class. The space between the houses has been laid with asphalt as a playground. The staff consists of the Headmistress, 10 "assistants in constant work" and 2 pupil teachers. There is 1 full time and 1 part time French teacher and other teachers for specific subjects, eg music. There are 240 pupils or whom 237 were examined. Comments made on the standards achieved in the following: English History, Geography, English Grammar, English Literature, Arithmetic, Algebra, Euclid, Latin, French, German, Handwriting, Spelling, Dictation, Reading. "The school appears to be altogether in a very healthy state..... Teaching seems to be conscientiously distributed.....and there is evidence of the judicious and able superintendence of the Head Mistress."
10% of girls who have been in the school for 1 term failed in at least one subject. 2% of girls who have been in the school for at least a year failed in at least one subject. Table given of the statistics of passes and failures in 1874 and 1875. The school is self supporting financially despite the heavy commitments necessitated by extending the premises. Appeal for support for the building fund.
Tables of Classes, Schoolwork and Parentage of Pupils for the Term Ending December 1875
Statistics of the following:
The number of girls in each class
The number of girls studying each subject
The number of girls whose fathers are in specified occupations, eg merchants and manufacturers.
The Manchester High School for Girls
369, 371 and 373 Portland Terrace, Oxford Street
Visitor : Rev James Fraser
Treasurer: Mr Donner
Auditors: R D Darbishire Canon Tonge
Hon Secretary: Miss Livesey
Managing Committee
B M Cowie, J G Greenwood, Rev W J Kennedy, Mrs Anson, Mrs E Behrens, Mr Beyer, E J Broadfield, James Chadwick, Mrs Chambers, Mrs Christie, R D Darbishire, Mrs R D Darbishire, Miss Gaskell, O Heywood, Miss M Higgins, Mrs Roby, T D Ryder, C P Scott, Mrs C P Scott, Canon Tonge, Prof Wilkins, Canon Woodhouse.
Teaching Staff
[The academic qualifications of some of the staff are given]
Head Mistress: Miss Day
Mathematical Mistress: Mrs Corbett
Assistant Mistresses: Miss Welsh, Miss Turnbull, Miss Sanders, Miss Woods, Miss Cawthorne, Miss Vyner, Miss L Woodhead, Miss H E Day, Miss Lane
Additional Teachers
[Includes the subjects they taught]
Mlle Didiez, Mlle Mayer, Mr Blacker, Miss Salomonson, Miss Macmillan, Miss Millar, Dr Bridge, Mr Towers, Miss Martin
General Information
Information given about the following:
school hours, the curriculum, homework, examinations, absence, reports to parents, religious instruction, the library, holidays, school dinners, fees, exhibitions, the withdrawal of pupils.
Edward Donner, R D Darbishire and Richard Tonge
Statement of Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1875
Details of expenditure and income.