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Directorate of Education, Baghdad Province
Personnel Affairs
Number / 21731
Date 8 / 12 / 951
To "-
Administrations of all private and foreign schools affiliated with this directorate
The Directorate of General Education has decided to appoint Dr. Mahdi Kadhim al-Mahdi as a physician at the Directorate of Education Health
(for private schools). Therefore, the aforementioned will visit your schools to oversee health aspects and conduct
medical examinations on their students. Please act according to his instructions and advice and take necessary measures in this regard.
⟦illegible⟧
p.p. Director
6 / 12 / 951 Director of Education, Baghdad Province
A copy to "-
Directorate of General Education / with reference to Administrative Order No. 37661 dated 4 / 12 / 951
Directorate of General Education / Health Directorate
Baghdad Provincial Governorate
Inspection Presidency
Office Personnel
Hassan / 6
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Directorate of Education for Baghdad Liwa
Personnel Affairs
Number / 22363
Date 15 / 12 / 951
To:-
Administrations of all Private and Foreign schools associated with this Directorate
We record for you below a copy of the memorandum numbered 44 and dated 4 / 11 / 951 submitted by Mr.
Sadiq Al-Shuja, Inspector of Private Secondary Schools, regarding attendance registers in your schools, endorsing the necessity of marking
the names of absentees in the official attendance registers daily without delay, with attention to this aspect in accordance with the issued
instructions, requesting compliance therewith with full accuracy and care.
For the Director
Director of Education for Baghdad Liwa
A copy to:-
Directorate of General Education / Secondary Education (Private)
" " " / Primary Education (Private)
Presidency of Inspection - with reference to its letter numbered 1148 and dated 11 / 12 / 951
The Department's Personnel File
- Copy of the Memorandum -
One of the causes of lack of discipline in private evening secondary schools is the negligence of their administrations in recording absentees daily
in the attendance registers. What I witnessed in the ⟦...⟧ Al-Ummah Private Evening Secondary School (at the Central Intermediate School) is that the administration of this ⟦school⟧
school has taken to marking the absentees on lists of names prepared for this purpose without paying attention to recording them
in the official attendance registers daily. As this action of theirs is contrary to the instructions communicated to them, in addition to the possibility of
manipulation in the recording of absentees, noting that I have guided them to the method that must be followed in this regard, please kindly
take note and order what is necessary.
Signature / Inspector of Private Secondary Schools
Hassan / 15
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Directorate of Education for Baghdad Liwa
Accounts
Number: D / 8 / 22026
Date: 10 / 12 / 951
⟦illegible⟧
To :-
Administration of Al-Karrada Al-Sharqiya First School for Girls
With reference to your letter numbered 27 and dated 2 / 12 / 951
We approve the expenditure of 80% of the total sports fees of your school to purchase sports materials as it is ⟦illegible⟧
noting that the regulations regarding sports fees do not allow otherwise as informed by the General Directorate of Education in its letter numbered 37545
and dated, provided that the expenditure is carried out through the purchasing committee and documents are submitted in two copies certified by the committee.
⟦signature⟧
Director of Education for Baghdad Liwa
A copy to :-
All public school administrations - for information regarding the purchase of radio sets from sports fees
Hussein / 10
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Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province
(Administration)
Number / 31916
Date / 9 / 12 / 1951
To " Administrations of official and private intermediate and secondary schools for boys and girls
belonging to this Directorate.
We convey to you below a copy of the letter from the General Directorate of Education numbered 3776 and dated 4 / 12 / 1951
for ac⟦line⟧tion accordin⟦line⟧gly.
On behalf of . The Director
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
9 / 12 / 51
A copy to:
General Directorate of Education
- Personnel Affairs Department - with reference to its letter mentioned above.
The Assi⟦line⟧stant
Co⟦line⟧py of the letter
The following shall be added to the second paragraph of our letter number 35161 and dated 15 / 11 / 1951 referred to:
"And if the teacher teaches less than 24 hours per week, it is possible to assign more lectures to him so that
his original hours and reserve lectures do not exceed thirty lessons per week."
"As for the school principal or his assistant, each may be assigned lectures such that they and the lessons
under his charge do not exceed double the number stipulated in the Secondary Schools Regulation No. 14 of 1944."
Signature / General Director of Education
Incoming / 9
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Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province
Administration
Number / 22338
Date / 15 / 12 / 1951
Administrations of official, private, and foreign intermediate and preparatory schools for boys and girls
Affiliated with all of this directorate
We convey to you below a copy of the letter from the Directorate of General Education No. 38958 dated 11 / 12 / 1951
Regarding lectures, please act accordingly.
⟦illegible signature⟧
On behalf of the Director of
Education of Baghdad Province
15 / 12 / 51
A copy to:-
Directorate of General Education - with reference to its letter mentioned above
Assistant
Copy of the letter
With reference to our circulars numbered 35161 and 27661 dated 15 / 11 / 951 and 4 / 12 / 1951, it is permitted that
the maximum limit for any teacher's lectures be 12 lectures per week, provided that the total of his official
duty periods and lectures does not exceed 34 periods if in high schools and 36 periods if in intermediate schools.
It is also permitted, when necessary, that you do not adhere to appointing lecturers based on the 50% ratio of the permanent staff in
private and semi-official schools.
The modification of the lecture count limit and the permission to appoint lecturers are enjoyed by secondary and intermediate schools,
both official and private alike, until the end of the current school year, due to the critical situation of some of these schools regarding
the scarcity of teachers and lecturers first, and a desire to maintain ⟦not⟧ paralyzing the cultural movement second. However, all of this will lead us
at the beginning of the next school year to implement what was contained in our two aforementioned circulars in their entirety without any need
to issue any warning in this regard. Please inform the schools concerned of the content of this letter urgently.
Sadiq / 15
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Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province
Administration
Number / 21200
Date / 26 / 11 / 951
To - Administrations of all full primary schools for boys and girls, official, private,
and foreign, affiliated with this Directorate ⟦line⟧
We convey to you below a copy of the memorandum from the English Language Inspector, Mr. Selim Hakim, numbered 61 and dated
24 / 11 / 951, requesting that you inform the male and female English language teachers of its contents.
On behalf of the Director
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
⟦signature⟧
29 / 11 / 951
Copy to -
Presidency of Inspection
Directorate of General Education
Governorate of Baghdad Province (Local Administration)
Inspector Mr. Selim Hakim - with reference to his aforementioned memorandum.
⟦line⟧ The Necessity of the Memorandum ⟦line⟧
Reference to the letter of the Presidency of Inspection No. 1057 dated 18 / 11 / 951
The plans for teaching English in primary schools are mentioned in detail in the two books
1 - The First Lesson in English - (Teacher's Guide).
lish
Where the first book includes (36) plans for oral lessons taught in the fifth grade, which last about two months
from the beginning of teaching, and which must be completed with the use of the necessary teaching aids before starting to teach
the books. The second book includes the necessary plans and directions for each of the prescribed lessons in the fifth and sixth grades.
It also includes classroom exercises (refer to Instructions for Inspectors and Teachers of English in all Primary Schools) Government
Press 950, p. 27.
Please kindly instruct all male and female English language teachers in all primary schools to suffice
with mentioning the numbers of the oral lessons and the numbers of the prescribed book lessons when they develop the annual plans referred to in the book -
mentioned above, with the necessity of bringing the two mentioned books to the classroom and referring to them always when they teach, as the
intended benefit from these two books is not achieved if the teacher leaves them in the school cabinet or at home as I observe during
my tours if they have forgotten that.
Signature / English Language Inspector
Hassan / 29
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Directorate of Education, Baghdad Province
- Administration -
Number / 16474
Date / 13 / 10 / 1951
To all administrations of secondary and intermediate schools, government, private, and foreign, for boys and girls
under this Directorate ⟦line⟧
We request not to provide any male or female student with a document for any entity whatsoever without completing all
the information that must be included about the student.
We point out in particular not to neglect mentioning the general examination averages in every document issued by
the school. We also request not to provide students with documents except in the Arabic language, as their translation is entrusted to the Directorate of
General Technical Affairs.
⟦illegible⟧
For the Director
Director of Education, Baghdad Province
⟦10/11⟧
Copy to: -
Directorate of General Technical Affairs - in reference to their letter No. 29455 dated 9 / 10 / 951
Requesting kind notification that this Directorate has not previously certified any document
of the type referred to in this letter ⟦line⟧
Certificates and Statistics Department ⟦line⟧
Sadiq / 11
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Baghdad Province Education Directorate
Administration
Number / 19342
Date 13 / 11 / 951
To -
Administrations of official, private, and foreign intermediate and secondary schools
for boys and girls affiliated with this Directorate, all of them
Please pay extra attention to the records of male and female students and record the following information about them with full accuracy to control them and prevent
ignoring some students in the school tools and their obtaining transfer documents and certificates from them while some of these
have been provided with certificates to another school or failed for two years or more and claimed they did not fail, and the school administration is forced to
provide them with what they want due to the lack of sufficient information about them in the records.
1 - The school administration shall maintain a special register for recording students, allocating a page from it for each student (male/female) on which a personal
photograph of them is pasted and stamped with the school's seal. His name and his father's and grandfather's name or his surname shall be written on the page specific to him so that no
similarity occurs between two names.
2 - The school administration shall record the final and ministerial grades of the student (male/female) obtained for each year until his graduation
from it.
3 - The school shall record in the remarks field the years of his failure.
4 - It shall record the date of his dismissal from the school and the reasons for dismissal.
5 - If he is provided with a transfer certificate, the name of the school transferred to and the number and date of the transfer certificate shall be written in the remarks field.
Also, the transfer certificate must be organized in two papers, one of which is kept in the student's file and the other is sent to the school transferred to.
On this occasion, we request the administrations of private schools to decide on the matter of students leaving legitimately or otherwise
in the same academic year in which the student left his school, and after the leaving process is completed, this Directorate is informed for approval
provided that the number and date of the approval letter issued by this Directorate are included in the student's special remarks field.
In doing so, the school administration is secured from student deception, and its records will be perfected, fixed, and its pages speaking with abundant information
about every student (male/female), even if the director changes or the clerk moves.
⟦signature⟧
On behalf of / Director of Education of Baghdad Province
⟦signature⟧
A copy to:-
Directorate of General Technical Affairs - reference to the report of the specialist inspector Mr. Fahmi Al-Jardoukli regarding
your letter numbered 30394 and dated 16 / 10 / 951
General Directorate of Education
Assistant of this Directorate
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Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province
Personnel Affairs
Number / 18675
Date / 5 / 11 / 1951
To -
Administrations of all Private and Foreign Secondary and Intermediate Schools affiliated
with this Directorate
We record for you below a copy of the General Directorate of Education letter No. 32724 dated 10 / 21 / 1951
regarding the organization of files for your students' documents and certificates, requesting that this be implemented with full accuracy and care.
On behalf of the Director
⟦signature⟧ 5 / 11
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
A copy to -
General Directorate of Education / Secondary Education (Private).
Head of Inspection.
The Department's Personnel Office.
Copy of the Letter
⟦line⟧
Please direct the Private Secondary and Intermediate schools affiliated with you to the necessity of observing what was stated in Article Five
of the Secondary Schools Regulation No. 14 of 1944 and organizing files containing the documents and certificates mentioned
in the aforementioned article in a way that facilitates their audit and knowledge of the degree of their application of the admission requirements stated in the regulation.
Signature / General Director of Education
M / Amin / 5
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Baghdad Province Education Directorate
(Administration)
No. / M / SH / 30523
Date / 21 / 11 / 1951
To the principals of intermediate and secondary schools for boys and girls, official, private,
and foreign, all belonging to this directorate.
We convey to you below a copy of the General Education Directorate's letter No. 35161 dated 15 / 11 / 1951,
emphasizing the necessity of implementing its contents, and we also stress the need to observe and implement Article 17 thereof.
For / The Director
Director of Baghdad Province Education
21 / 11
A copy to the General Education Directorate
with reference to its letter mentioned above.
Assistance of this Directorate
Department Accountant - to note what concerns the optional donations matter.
Personnel - Private Education - regarding the lectures of male and female teachers.
Copy of the Letter
We have noticed that most teaching staffs have turned away in recent years from their professional duties related to preparing the lesson
and presenting it in the best possible form from its various sources, and from following up on the students' written work and supervising their activities,
and from participating effectively in school activities to the acceptable extent emphasized by the curricula.
The students toward productive work for the purpose of broadening their horizons require dedication and prior preparation of plans.
In any case, this reluctance encountered by schools from most of their teachers.
For the schools, due to the aforementioned, have become weak in their impact on the student's life, and the failure of most of them to create an environment
that harmonizes with their burgeoning desire to receive all forms of knowledge and the associated physical and mental activities. This is in addition
to what improvisation in delivering lessons leads to in terms of decline in academic levels, such that a mass of students failed to obtain
high averages in the general examinations.
We have seen, based on the above—and as we are at the beginning of the new school year—the need to alert the necessity of rescuing
the schools from the state of anxiety to a state of stability by setting the following general recommendations, which we request to be acted upon and by providing
rules that the school body sees as achieving all the good purposes we seek for our schools:
1 - A director or teacher may not accept any lectures or work in a private or foreign school except after taking the opinion of this
Ministry and obtaining its written approval.
2 - The maximum number of lectures a teacher can take must not exceed seven lectures in any case, and the
principal will be held accountable for any violation of this rule.
3 - Every teacher must take his share of extracurricular activities that ⟦...⟧ the school administration finds consistent with his specialization
and abilities, and he must participate in one or more of the school societies and committees. The school principal must provide
a copy of the schedules of these activities to the Provincial Education Director and report to him any shortcoming that occurs therein.
4 - Every teacher must encourage students—in his area of specialization—to research and investigate, and he must guide them to the sources
available in the school library or public libraries.
5 - It is not permissible to neglect homework and classroom assignments, and the school principal must review these assignments from time to time
to know if the teacher has carried them out sufficiently.
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6 - The teacher will be held accountable for the results obtained by his students in public and school examinations, and the principal will be asked about every
case of abnormal success or failure that he allowed to occur contrary to the required scientific bases in both cases.
7 - The school is responsible for the students' proper utilization of their school day, which must be exploited during lesson times and free time
to the fullest extent.
8 - The school administration must encourage all students to practice school activities and it is preferred to leave them the freedom to choose the type
of activities.
9 - The school administration is obligated to appoint a supervisor and a guide from among the teachers for each group of school activity groups.
10 - The school principal must seek the assistance of class guides in solving students' problems. The guides, in turn, must submit to him
once every two months a written memo regarding their classes' academic, health, and disciplinary affairs with the necessary recommendation.
11 - The main problems of the school must be discussed through the Teachers' Council, which must also discuss
from time to time the means and steps it deems necessary to take for the sake of the students' academic and moral welfare.
12 - The minutes of the Teachers' Council resolutions must be recorded in a special register to be referred to by the inspection body and other
authorities to identify the efforts made in drawing up positive plans for the school's progress.
13 - The Teachers' Council must review the general state of the school in its first sessions and set for each matter the appropriate solution that
it sees as consistent with the available capabilities.
14 - In addition to its primary mission in teaching, educating, and reforming students' character, the school is responsible for nutrition,
clothing, and charity for the poor and sick, and it must secure their necessary needs through school societies.
15 - The school may not resort to coercion and severity in disciplining students. A virtuous educator can, through wisdom and good
preaching, enlighten his students to leave what is harmful and approach what is beneficial.
16 - We emphasize the necessity of caring for the school furniture, supplies, and other facilities, which must always remain elegant in appearance,
reflecting in their luster and good arrangement the teacher's taste and the student's character.
17 - In order to enable our schools to undertake the burdens of school activities and school committees, we authorize by this design the collection of
voluntary donations from male and female students as follows:
(500) Fils for physical education, (150) Fils for the school library, (100) Fils for the school art studio, (150) Fils for
nutrition and clothing affairs, (100) Fils for cooperative societies.
18 - These donations are subject to the accounting instructions previously issued regarding how they are collected and recorded, and the percentage of exemption.
19 - These amounts are spent according to financial instructions and with the knowledge of committees elected by the students under the supervision of
class guides.
20 - At the end of each month, the school administration must announce in the school newsletter and on the notice board the amount of funds that were
collected from the students according to their classes for each item mentioned in Article (17) of this design.
21 - The Teachers' Council meets at the invitation of the school principal to decide on the aspects of expenditure in light of the reports submitted to him by the class
guides and the heads of other school committees. The school principal must publish these resolutions to the students after
showing the amount spent in each case and for each entity.
22 - Everything the school collects and spends must be recorded in formal registers subject to inspection.
23 - The school principal must keep the expenditure documents after they are approved by him, the competent teacher, and three students
representing any society for whose purposes the expenditure was made.
Signature / Director General of Education
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Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province
Administration
Number / 20758
Date 24 / 11 / 1951
To the administrations of official middle and secondary schools for girls
Affiliated with this directorate
We convey to you below a copy of the letter from the Directorate of General Technical Affairs No. Sh.T / 1 / 35922
Dated 20 / 11 / 1951, requesting a response to be received by us before 28 / 11 / 1951
On behalf of the Director
⟦signature⟧
27 / 11 Director of Education of Baghdad Province
A copy to:-
Directorate of General Technical Affairs - in reference to its letter mentioned above
The Assistant - to unify the answers and send them to the Directorate of General Technical Affairs
Department Personnel
Copy of the Letter
The Ministry of Social Affairs intends to send a number of employees holding higher degrees
To train in social service work in the sessions held by the United Nations for the year 952
So those interested from graduates of higher schools who meet the following conditions to participate in these
sessions should submit their applications through their departments to the Directorate of Social Services by a date no later
than 1 / 12 / 1951.
Conditions
1 - The applicant must have sufficient knowledge of the English language in reading, writing, and speaking.
2 - To pledge to serve in villages and rural areas in various parts of the country after finishing the training.
3 - The United Nations undertakes to grant the candidate monthly allowances to cover their expenses and will also bear the costs
of their transportation within the country where their training takes place.
4 - The nominated employee bears <del>⟦expenses of⟧</del> their travel to that country for the round trip.
5 - The nominated employee is granted a study leave during the training period.
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Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province
Personnel
Number / 19443
Date / 14 / 11 / 1951
To " - Administration of the Al-Ja`fariyah Private Schools Association
We record for you below a copy of the letter from the Directorate of General Education No. 33739 dated 6 / 11 / 951 regarding the staffing
of your intermediate and secondary schools and the number of lectures decided for lecturers in the aforementioned schools from government school teachers
hoping that the necessary measures are taken to implement this and act accordingly.
For / The Director
⟦signature⟧ 14 / 11
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
A copy of it to " -
The administrations of all private intermediate and secondary schools linked to this Directorate - for the same purpose
Directorate of General Education / Secondary Education (Private)
Head of Inspection
Office Personnel
Copy of the Letter
With reference to your marginal note dated 27 / 10 / 51 recorded on the letter from the Principal of Al-Ja'fariyah Private Intermediate School No. 306
dated 20 / 10 / 951.
Please notify the administration of the private association and all other private schools belonging to you of the following:
The Ministry of Education aims, through the aid it usually provides to private schools, to enable these schools to perform
their mission in culture and discipline to the fullest extent, provided that the aforementioned schools ensure they do not exceed the boundaries commonly
recognized educationally. And as long as the various schools (government or private) are established and managed in other affairs according to
prescribed rules, it is indispensable for both to find the competent teacher, the suitable building, and the necessary supplies, laboratories,
and clarification aids required by the subject of the lesson. Any leniency in these matters takes the schools out of their normal work and wastes the efforts of the student,
the teacher, and the instructor alike. For this reason, we demand from private schools what we demand for our government schools: preparing the staff
according to need, providing specialization within it, and then setting the maximum limit for the classes given to the teacher to prevent exhaustion or preoccupation
that hinders lesson preparation or distracts from school activity and supervision of homework.
Based on the above, we do not agree to cancel the restriction issued regarding the number of lectures, nor do we agree to not binding
private schools to the fixed staffing for day and evening schools.
Accordingly, we hope to emphasize to all private schools that we will mandate them to adopt these principles in the coming year.
Signature / Director General of Education
Inward / 14
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Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province
Personnel Affairs
Number / M AM / 19313
Date 12 / 11 / 951
To " -
Administrations of all private and foreign schools affiliated with this directorate
We record for you below a copy of the letter from the General Directorate of Education No. 33655 dated 6 / 11 / 951
Regarding attendance records in private secondary schools, hoping to observe what was stated in the mentioned letter and act
accordingly with accuracy and complete care.
On behalf of .. The Director
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
12 / 11
A copy to " -
General Directorate of Education / Directorate of Personnel Affairs
Head of Inspection
Governorate of Baghdad Province
Clerk of Certificates and Statistics
Department Personnel
- Copy of the Letter -
Inspectors observe during their visits to private secondary schools that most of these schools
have not yet recorded the names of students in the attendance records, especially the evening ones, which they must
organize and maintain immediately after registration is completed, as they are the only reference for counting absences
of students from time to time for the purpose of applying what was stated in the secondary schools' regulations in this regard, and it is not hidden
that accuracy in the safety of recording student absences daily is considered one of the most important aspects of discipline in schools, and without it
students cannot be guided nor benefit from lessons, as it causes chaos among them instead of order, and in this case
the efforts of those involved in teaching are in vain, as the continuation of student attendance and their diligence in lessons
are considered among the foundations that help the teacher in their mission to graduate the largest possible number of their students in public examinations
Therefore, please circulate this to all private schools to organize their records and observe this aspect and care for it
and inform us.
Signature / General Director of Education
Hassan / 12
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Directorate of Education for Baghdad District
Administration
Number /: 20199
Date /: 14 / 11 / 951
To -
Administrations of Private Primary and Kindergarten Schools belonging to this Directorate
(For Boys and Girls)
We forward to you below a copy of the letter from the Directorate of General Technical Affairs numbered (Curricula and Books) and in the school
that was teaching English or French in its classes before the fifth primary, there is no objection to its continuation in
that regard.
On behalf of - The Director
Director of Education for Baghdad District
12 / 11 / ⟦illegible⟧
A copy of it to -
Directorate of General Technical Affairs - reference to its letter numbered 24430 dated 1 / 11 / 951
Directorate of General Education - (Primary Education)
Presidency of Inspection
Governorate of Baghdad District (Local Administration)
Assistantship of this Directorate
- Copy of the Letter -
The Council considered the decision it had previously taken regarding prohibiting the teaching of a foreign language before the fifth primary grade
in private schools and official schools allowed to conduct educational experiments in their various classes, and found that
that decision was correct in principle and from an educational and psychological standpoint, and if it had found the matter otherwise, it would have decided to generalize such
benefit to official schools as well, or at least would have decided to take what is necessary to facilitate teaching this language before the fifth primary
grades in those schools. On the other hand, it found that the guardians of the students, when they enroll their children in private schools,
know full well that those schools teach a foreign language before the fifth primary grade stage and that they are satisfied with that
and desire it and bear its consequences. Many of them have approached the office of this Ministry and supported their viewpoint orally and in writing, and also
stated that their children will study the subjects stipulated by law and in the form required by law. Furthermore, the students
in these schools will not obtain the primary education certificate unless they pass the general ministerial examination, which includes all the main
subjects according to the levels approved by the Ministry in its curricula. It became clear to the Board of Education that the practice of the case of their request does not
conflict with the General Education Law. Therefore, the Council decided to allow the teaching of a foreign language before the fifth primary grade stage.
Signature / Director General of Technical Affairs
Hassan / 12
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Frank Iny School
Intermediate and Primary
⟦line⟧
Number - 48 / 51
Date - 12 / 12 / 1951
To -
Directorate of Education, Baghdad Province
Greetings
Further to our letter No. 33 / 951 dated 11 / 21 / 951 returned to us
originally with a marginal note by your esteemed directorate.
We list below the number of male and female students in the sixth primary
and third intermediate classes in our school.
Please accept our highest respect.
Acting Director
Grade | Number of Males | Number of Females | Total |
Sixth | 20 | 16 | 36 | Only thirty-six.
Third Intermediate | 18 | 13 | 31 | Only thirty-one.
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Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province
Certificates and Statistics
Number /
Date / 11 / 1951
IMMEDIATELY
To the Administration of Buyut al-Ummah Secondary School, Baghdad
We emphasize our two letters numbered 17843 and 18566 dated 10 / 27 / 951 and 11 / 4 / 1951.
Requesting you inform us of the number of students in the third and fifth grades in both branches immediately upon receipt of this letter.
⟦illegible⟧
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
A copy of it to: -
Al-Muslimeen Association Secondary School in Al-Mamouniya
Al-Jaafariya Private / concerning the preparatory section only
National Service
Frank Iny Intermediate School
Shamash Private Secondary School
Provided that the boys' section is separated from the girls'
Certificates and Statistics - for implementation.
Incoming / 24
Frank Eini School
Intermediate and Primary
Telephone: 7448 Baghdad
Directorate of Education, Baghdad Province
Incoming Register
Number 42990
Date 21 / 11 / 51
10/2
Number: 51 / 22
Date: 1951/11/21
To -
Directorate of Education, Baghdad Province
Greetings,
Regarding your letter No. 17843 dated 10/27/1951
We list below the number of students in the sixth primary and third intermediate classes in our school for the
current school year 51/1952 :-
Class | Number of students in figures | Number of students in words
Sixth | ( 36 ) | Thirty-six
Third | ( 31 ) | Thirty-one
⟦...⟧
Please accept our highest respect.
Acting Director
Certificates and Statistics
21 / 11
To state the progress reached in lessons and their distribution
according to the Ministry's curriculum and the completion and school mission
in the number of each month
⟦illegible⟧
For the Director of Education, Baghdad Province
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Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province
(Administration)
Number / 18568
Date / 4 / 11 / 1951
To
Administrations of Primary Schools for Boys with sixth grades in
the city of Baghdad and its suburbs
Mr. Abdul Razzaq Nu'man, Observer of Physical Education, will inspect the scout groups and supervise the application of
their training progress and assist teachers in implementing training curricula; therefore, please provide the necessary assistance to facilitate
his mission.
On behalf of / The Director
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
4 / 11
A copy to :-
Directorate General of Education / (Physical Education) with reference to your letter No. 31723 dated
25 / 10 / 1951.
Governorate of Baghdad Province (Local Administration).
Assistantship of this Directorate.
M/ Amin/ 4
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Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province
Administration
Number / 18411
Date 1 / 11 / 1951
To -
Administrations of official, private, and foreign elementary, intermediate, and secondary schools
for boys and girls affiliated with this directorate, all of them
We transmit to you below a copy of the letter from the Directorate of General Technical Cultural Affairs No. 39926 dated
20 / 10 / 951, hoping you will prepare to implement the proposals contained therein. We will provide your schools with other
designs necessary to hold all or some of these exhibitions as much as possible. We also hope that secondary
and intermediate schools will hold their own exhibitions displaying the products of their male and female students to parents and guardians
of the students.
For the Director
⟦illegible⟧ 2 / 11 / 51 Director of Education of Baghdad Province
A copy of it to -
Directorate of General Technical and Cultural Affairs - with reference to its letter mentioned above
Assistant of this Directorate
Copy of the Letter
It has become clear to us from the tours we conducted in various parts of the country that most schools and educational institutions
limit themselves to teaching curricula and books alone. While we do not deny the importance and necessity of applying the curricula and emphasizing them,
we have found that the spirit of creativity and closeness to practical real life is almost non-existent among school students except
in rare cases. Also, limiting oneself to teaching books alone and not utilizing the students' talents and activities in other
aspects makes the school's horizon narrow and affected, and teaching becomes a boring process that is not loved by the students' souls.
Therefore, we urge the determination of our brother teachers, school directors, directors of education, and all those working in the field
of culture and education to work on making the school environment beloved by the students' souls and a factor in developing their abilities
and opening new fields to revive the spirit of work, activity, and creativity in their souls so that the school atmosphere becomes an active factor
in the moral and intellectual formation of the students.
On the occasion of the beginning of the school year, we decided to direct attention to the necessity of arriving at the following recommendations -
1 - Holding exhibitions of handicrafts for elementary schools for boys and girls - every director of education must form
a committee from among the prominent school headmistresses and headmasters to organize such an exhibition in the province center at a location chosen
by the director of education for this purpose. The head of this committee shall be responsible for everything sent from the various schools of
student products and innovations to be displayed in the exhibition. What each school displays shall be independent of what every other school displays
⟦etc.⟧ Then a judging committee is formed to decide which school is the first among the boys' schools and which is the first among the girls' schools, then
each of these two schools is granted a prize not exceeding 5 Dinars in value in the form of a ( ⟦cup⟧ or silver
medal engraved with the name of the school and the occasion on which it was obtained. The director of education must work to stimulate this
movement, sponsor it, and personally monitor its progress, and inform us from time to time of the stages it has reached. It is preferred that
these exhibitions open in the month of March or April.
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2 - Establishing exhibitions for maps and drawings among high school students - There are students among middle and high school students
with excellent abilities in making maps and making drawings that can be utilized as illustrative aids, such as drawing various animals
and plants and their anatomy, and creating other artistic drawings. Such abilities must be stimulated and utilized, and therefore it is necessary
to work on opening an exhibition to display what the high school students create and perform under the guidance of their teachers in terms of drawings and maps. A
prize shall be awarded to whoever submits the best work that can be utilized as a means of illustration, and another prize for whoever creates the best colored
map. This shall be done by a judging committee selected by the Director of Education from among specialists, and the value of a single prize shall not exceed
5 Dinars. The value of the prize shall also be spent from the school activities allocations.. The Director of Education, high school principals,
and teachers must pay attention to this matter to show people the fruits of their labors and the efforts of their children, and the exhibition should open with the exhibitions
mentioned in the first paragraph. Measures should be taken from now by the directors of education to appoint a supervisory body responsible for that,
as well as appointing the judging committee and the location and time of the exhibition.
3 - Flower Exhibition - There is a large class of people with good taste among teachers and students who care for flowers,
cultivate them, and produce the best types. It is very desirable to encourage them to hold a flower exhibition in the month of April so that everyone can present the most beautiful
live flowers they have produced and cared for in their pots. A prize shall be awarded to the school that submits the best collection of these flowers.
If one of the teachers or students in the province manages to produce a rare type of them, he shall also be awarded a prize or a medal worth 5 Dinars
to be spent from the school activities allocations.
We emphasize in this letter the necessity of extreme care for these matters, and we request that the Directorate of General Technical Affairs be informed of all that
you will undertake in this regard.
Signature / Minister of Education
Hassan / 3
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Baghdad Province Education Directorate
(Administration)
No. / 18410
Date / 1 / 11 / 1951
To ..
Administrations of primary schools in the city of Baghdad and its outskirts
⟦...⟧ Monday of every week to conduct scouting drills in schools that have teams
scouting ⟦...⟧ sent to you ⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
A copy to:-
Directorate of General Education (Physical Education) with reference to their letter No. 31091 dated 24 / 10 / 51
Baghdad Provincial Governorate (Local Administration) .
⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧
1 / 11 / ⟦...⟧
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Directorate of Education, Baghdad District
Administration
Number / 18676
Date / 5 / 11 / 1951
To . -
Administrations of primary, middle, and secondary schools, public, private, and foreign
affiliated with all of this directorate.
We transmit to you below a copy of the letter from the General Directorate of Education No. 32726 dated 10/31/51
hoping for action accordingly.
On behalf of / The Director
Director of Education, Baghdad District
8 / 11
A copy of it to . -
General Directorate of Education (Directorate of Education Health) in reference to its aforementioned letter.
Assistantship of this directorate.
Copy of the letter
⟦line⟧
Please instruct all school principals affiliated with you the necessity of opening a register in each school for the purpose of recording the notes
of the education doctor and his instructions upon his visit and examination of male and female students during medical examinations to act accordingly.
Signature / On behalf of the General Director of Education
M / Amin / 8
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Frank Iny School
Intermediate and Primary
Telephone: 7448 Baghdad
⟦line⟧
Number 2251
Date 16 / 11 / 1951
To.
Baghdad Province Education Directorate
Greetings,
Latif Sasson Munshi Muniri is a student in the third intermediate grade for the academic year
50 / 951 and participated in the general exam for the mentioned academic year and passed it, achieving
(373) three hundred and seventy-three marks and not (377) three hundred and seventy-seven marks as stated
in the table of results for the general exams for the year 50 / 51 for the intermediate study, and his family name
is Muniri and not <del>⟦illegible⟧</del> Shiri as stated in the mentioned list.
Please accept the utmost respect.
Acting Director