Circular: Sherwood Friends School, 1901-1902

Sherwood Friends' School SANDY SPRING .... MARYLAND

1901-1902

ALICE VEDDER FARQUHAR PRINCIPAL

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SHERWOOD FRIENDS' SCHOOL.

TEACHERS.

ALICE VEDDER FARQUHAR, History, Botany, English.

SALLIE PLEASANTS BROOKE, Mathematics.

MARY MOORE THOMAS, Geography, Grammar.

EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE of SANDY SPRING MONTHLY MEETING. ,

JOHN THOMAS, Chairman, ... Ednor, Md. CORNELIA H. BENTLY .. Sandy Spring, Md. JOHN C. BENTLY .... Sandy Spring, Md. CORRIE M. BROOKE, ...Sandy Spring, Md. HENRY H. MILLER ... Sandy Spring, Md. SARAH T. MILLER ..... Ashton, Md. ESTELLE T. MOORE ...Sandy Spring, Md. MARY E. MOORE .... Sandy Spring, Md. WILLIAM W. MOORE ... Sandy Spring, Md. ASA M. STABLER .... Spencerville, Md. ALBAN G. THOMAS .... Ashton, Md. KATHERINE D. THOMAS .... Ednor, Md. MARY BENTLEY THOMAS .... Ednor, Md.

SHERWOOD FRIENDS' SCHOOL, situated near Sandy Spring, Montgomery county, Maryland, will open for its nineteenth year on 9th month (September) 16th, 1901. This School is under the immediate supervision of the Sandy Spring Meeting of the Society of Friends. The Educational Committee is made up of intelligent, capable, and progressive men and women, whose intention it is to give the Principal all the aid in their power to make the School a success and a credit to the neighborhood.

The rooms are large, light, and airy, and can be thoroughly heated. They contain valuable works of reference and some physical apparatus and chemical supplies.

The grounds are ample and well shaded, and opportunity is offered in them for the pupils to indulge in out-of-door sports, such as tennis, baseball, basket-ball, etc.

The School is divided into three Departments, each Department consisting of three classes.

The Primary Department is composed of the three lowest grades in the School. In this Department the hours are from 9 a.m until 12 m.

In the course of these three years, pupils are expected to gain the ability to read ordinary English with comparative ease; to begin to express their ideas in writing; to master the four fundamental operations in Arithmetic and to do some

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work in fractions; and to make a good start in Geography, History, and Language work, at first by verbal lessons, and later on by the use of carefully selected text-books. The aim of the Department will be to develop the child's powers of attention, observation, and self-control rather than to weary his brain and memory with abstract facts and principles.

For the Intermediate and High School Departments the morning ession will open 9 a. m., and the afternoon session will close at 3 p. m.

The three Intermediate Classes will receive instruction in the ordinary grammar school branches. The pupils in these classes will be expected to have constant practice in Reading; to finish or nearly finish the usual school course in Arithmetic; to complete the course in Grammar and Political Geography; to study thoroughly the History of the United States and of England; and in some cases to begin the study of Latin and Algebra.

In the three years if the High School course the pupils will study some of the Masterpieces of English and American authors; will review Arithmetic, work in Algebra through Quadratics, and study Plane Geometry; will study Civil Government and the Constitution of the United States and General History; will have various short courses in Physical Geography, Chemistry, Physics, Botany, etc., and will, in the case of those desiring it, have lessons in Latin.

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