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Kilkenny Model
School
Model School Attendance
1860 1900 1946
2000
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MODEL SCHOOL 1848
Pupil Teachers Life
A.M.
5.30 Rise, wash, make beds, devotional exercises.
6.30 At the forcing pump, dust school rooms.
6.45 Study, prepare lessons to be taught in school.
8.45 Breakfast.
9.00 Open gates in playground.
10.00 In school with pupils.
P.M.
3.00 Dinner.
3.30 Recreation; evening being favourable, walk out with the
Master.
5.00 Mend pens, sweep school-rooms. work at forcing-pump.Lock
doors.
5.30 Study.
8.45 Supper.
9.00 Mend pens for study-room, lock street gate, clean shoes.
9.30 Retire for the night.
10.00 Lights are extinguished in the dormitory.
On Wednesday evening, when the
weather is favourable, there is no fixed study, and they walk
out with the master, and practise surveying with the chain.
On Saturdays, from one to four, they are at liberty to visit
their friends,or see their clergymen. During the months of
November, December, January and February they do not ride
until half-past six in the morning.
OBJECTIONS FROM A PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER 1868.
Rev. James Porter came into the
boy's school and objected to the boys' History, which said
that Queen Phillips made a sign of the cross. Then he went
into the infants school. They were learning a poem called
"Angels Whisper":
Her beads she numbered
The babe still slumbered
And smiled in her face as she bened her knee
Oh blessed be that warning
My child thy sleep adorning
For I know that the angels are whispering with thee.
Then he went to the girls school.
They were reading a story called 'The dead ass' about a man
going on a pilgrimmage.He objected to that too. Then in front
of the children, talking to Miss. Therne he said "I don't
consider that a proper passage in a mixed school". He wrote
in the visitor's book 6th February, 1868: "I visited the schools
this day. The children were clean and orderly. I examined
the books in use and I feel bound to state for my opinion
the contain many passages exceedingly objectionable contrary
to the faith of Protestant children". He asked for some books
to take. Mr.Ryan refused to let him take to books. Rev. Mr.
Gorman asked for the books and Mr. Ryan said he could borrow
them after school. The two Church Of Ireland clergymen were
in the school. Rev. Mr. Gorman and Rev. Mr. de Montmorencly.
Mr. Ryan (Principal) complained about Mr. Porter's behaviour.
Mr. Porter was summoned to state his complaint to the "Royal
Commission of Inquiry into Education 1868".
1946 - The Fire. Miss
Wray was a teacher in the Kilkenny Model School. One morning
she was going down to school and this man said to her 'You
need not go to school today'. 'Why?' she said. 'The school
has been burnt down'. So Miss Wray went down to the school
anyway and she found there was nothing saved in the fire.
She saw pieces of paper flying around. She picked one up which
was burnt all around it. It was a page out of the rollbook
for 1910, the very year she had started school herself. Mr.
Walker was sick onn Friday and the next Monday, she went to
see Mr. Walker and hewastalking about all his books . Then
the doctor said to go out for a minute but she went home.
The next morning her sister had to go to work and Miss Wray
was laughing at her and a while after her sister came in as
white as a ghost. Miss Wray asked her what was wrong and the
sister said that Mr. Walker was dead and that he died last
night. In a weeks time they were lent a room in Ormonde Road.
They had nothing in the room except the table and chairs they
were lent, and a new Roll Book.
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