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SCHOOL RULES AND REGULATIONS.

Good rules are as important for a school as good laws for a country; neither the one or the other will go on well without them. The rules for parents may be printed, and distributed to them when they enter their children. The rules for the internal management of the school, should be explained to the children at stated periods.

RULES FOR PARENTS.

Parents are requested to observe the following rules:

1. Parents wishing their children to be admitted must apply on any morning of the week, except Monday. The names, residences, &c. of the children will then be registered in a book kept for the purpose, and as vacancies occur, they will be sent for in the strict order of their respective applications, except in the case of pupils who have been dismissed for irregularity of attendance, who are not to be received again till after all the other applicants shall have been admitted.

2. No child can be admitted who is under two or more than seven years of age.

3. The doors are closed every morning precisely at ten o'clock, and the children are dismissed at three, except on Saturdays, when the school closes at twelve o'clock.

4. If any child be frequently absent, or absent five days successively, and the cause be not made known to the teacher before the expiration of the five days, such child will be discharged from the school. If the parents wish the child to be re-admitted, they must get the name entered in the application book as at first; and wait till after all the children who have applied for the first time shall have been admitted.

5. The payment is

per week, to be paid the

first day in each week the child any child be unavoidably absent theless be made weekly so long the name of the child to remain 6. No child having any infect deficient in personal cleanliness retained in the school.

MAXIMS AND REGULATIONS TO BE OBS

1. Endeavour to set a good ex 2. Never overlook a fault: to children, since you will, no doub them for a repetition of it.

3. Spare no pains to investiga charge; and, if you cannot satis decision. Leave it to the future

4. Never correct a child in ang that we know the truth of a case 5. Do strict justice to all, and 6. Always prepare for your gal ous study; never attempt to tea know thoroughly; and, if at any to answer a question put by the your inability.

7. Try to bring forward the dull ren. The quick intellects will c

8. Teach thoroughly, and do n fast; remember that you are layin knowledge.

9. Never leave the children a schoolroom or playground.

10. Attend strictly to the perso children; and watch against the e 11. Let particular care be taken c and apparatus, and see that all is k 12. Attend to the cleanliness

schoolrooms and offices, and to the order and neatness of the playground and garden borders.

13. Attend to the ventilation and heating of the rooms. In summer keep the windows constantly open, in winter open them when the children go out to play.

14. Never let the children get chilled or overheated. 15. Do not be tempted to give undue attention to the elder to the neglect of the younger classes. Such a course would be fatal to the general advancement of the school.

16. Take every opportunity of Moral training. Consider that it is better to make children good than clever. 17. Constantly seek self-improvement, and try to enlarge your own stock of information. Remember that Knowledge is your stock in trade.

18. Let your intercourse with the children be regulated by love. Remember that our blessed Lord loved little children, and took them in his arms and blessed them.

SCHOOLROOM RULES,

To be repeated by the children at the close of the week.

1. We ought to be kind and gentle in our conduct towards each other, and, when injured in any way, not to revenge ourselves, but seek the protection of the Teacher.

2. Always to speak the truth without reserve.

3. Never to speak evil of others.

4. Never to take any thing which is not our own, nor keep any thing we may find belonging to another. 5. Never to covet any thing other children have, nor try to deprive them of it.

6. To obey the Teachers in all things, and pay strict attention to their words.

7. To keep silence when in the gallery, except when permitted to speak, and never interrupt either the Teacher or any other person who may be speaking.

8. To be strictly attentive to l always seek an explanation of wh stand.

9. To keep our books whole a touch or injure the pictures or a 10. To come in time in the m hands, face, and clothes.

1. To be gentle in play, and ca very little children.

2. Not to be selfish or exclusi deavour to make others happy, as

3. Never to interfere with or ren's amusements.

4. Always to try to comfort ar is hurt or in trouble.

5. To refer every cause of com 6. Not to touch or injure the fl the garden borders.

7. Each class to use the swings in turn, as appointed.

8. Never to go in the way of fere with others who may be usin 9. To form quickly in line wh lessons.

SANATORY REGUI

Children breathe more quickly than grown persons. A child und will render impure nearly three minute. Now, if we take as an e forty feet long, twenty wide, and f that there are one hundred infants

will give (allowing for the space occupied by gallery, furniture, &c.) about one hundred cubic feet of air for each pupil, and if there were no ventilation this stock would be exhausted in thirty-three minutes; but long before this limit is reached, the air of the room becomes unwholesome, the oxygen or life-supporting part of it being absorbed into the blood, and a deleterious gas (carbonic acid) returned in its stead: if means are not taken to remove this, and admit pure air, the children will become languid and dispirited, and their health will suffer. An air shaft with an opening near the top of the room, having a sliding lid that can be raised or let down, is a simple and effectual mode of ventilation. Where no other means occur, the top sashes of the windows should be kept down a little, to allow the heated air to escape as it ascends.

CLEANLINESS.

Cleanliness is next in importance to ventilation, for independently of the unpleasant and demoralizing character of a dirty schoolroom, the dust raised by so many feet, when taken into the lungs, is highly injurious.

TEMPERATURE.

When the room is heated by an open fire-place, it is well to admit the air for ventilation as near the fire as possible, as by that means a more equal warmth is kept up. It is dangerous to overheat the school-room, as it causes the children to take cold when changing to the playground the temperature should not rise above 70° or fall much below 60° Fahrenheit.

DISEASE.

Although it is the parents' duty to attend to the health of the child, yet in epidemics or sudden illness, it is necessary for the teacher to be able to distinguish the premonitory signs of disease, as he stands for the time in the parents' place.