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GIRLS 1 SCHOOLS IN HAHRA TN.

I visited the Girls schools In Manama and Muharraq
on Saturday March 14th ant? was very favourably Impressed by

the standard of education for girls readied In the State*
We went first to the school In Manamav v/here th
are about 150 girls. This school douo not possess the
advantage of a building specially designed for the purpose,

and Cor this reason some of the class rooms are dark and not
v*ry well ventilated, and there Is not enough room to
accommodate all the girls properly. One olass has actually
to be held in a room which Is also the only pass-age between
tv/o parts of the school, and the constant passing and re-

passlng Is very disturbing. There are six clasr.ee here, and
the children start to attend school about the age of six, but
there is no Kindergarten proper owing to the lack of trained
Kindergarten teachers. I visited each class and thought the
standard of work good, but in almost every class more atten­

tion needs to be paid to neatness and cleanness. The weakest
subject 18 arithmetic. The needlework Ig very good, the girls
take a great interest din this subject and produce excollent
results, but here again they need to keep their work cleaner*
Muharraq.
The school in Muharraq occupies buildings specially

designed for it, and most of the class rooms are light and
well ventilated. The number of girls has increased very
repidly and still more could be taken if there were room for
them. An Arab house standing in the c.inpotind is\ now being

used as class rooms and these arc dark and rather stuffy. In
this school there are tv/o Kindergarten forme where the chil­
dren do their work on the Froebel system, and use apparatue
specially made for them. English is taught from the third
form upwards, but the children Ln the Kindergarten learn the
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