Public & Thomas Hanbury School for Boys—The School reopened in the premises of the Shanghai Jewish Schoo} where lessons were conducted from January 17 to March 28 in the afternoons only, the premises being occupied in the morning by the Shanghai Jewish School. "On March 16 the school was transferred to premises at 282 Kinnear Road, where ten classrooms, an Art room, and a Physics laboratory have been furnished and equipped, as well as a Hostel for 18 boarders.
The curriculum provides for an eleven year course culminating in the Cambridge Schoo! Certifeate Examination which most boys of the senior form sticcessfully take. At two places. In the school provision is made for double "promotion so that a bright boy car reduce the period of schooling to nine years instead of eleven.
Enrolment has risen steadily during the year from 226 to 256 and several classes are now fled to capacity.
Western District Public School.
'The salient feature of the year wa: recovery. During January and February the sessions continued, in the afternoons only, at the Shanghai American School; but from March 1 the full sessions' were resumed at Tieng Road. The enrolment rose 10 233 during the Spring, and owing to fan unprecedented number of new pupils, toa maximum of 275 in The Autumn: "it is almost at its former strength. It will naturally be some time before the effect, on the teaching and curriculum, of the re~ sirietions that circumstances imposed in 1937 is entirely eradicated, individual pupils and certain subjects being still lite in arrear. But additional emphasis will remedy those defects in due course.
Secondary School for Chinese Girls—The average attendance from March to June was 410 pupils. September' the demand was again extremely heavy and a further 163 new students were successful in gaining admission out of 360 taking the entrance examination, the average allen dance for the Winter Term bein, 480 pupils,
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