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100 <br />Report of Superintendent of Schools <br />To the School Committee and the <br />Citizens of the Town of Mashpee <br />I am pleased to submit my seventh annual report to the <br />Citizens of Mashpee. As a matter of expediency, the Prin- <br />cipals' and Superintendent's reports are conbined into one <br />report. <br />1962 was a year of impressive gains in the instructional <br />program of our school. Long desired instruction, in the areas <br />of art supervision in all grades and manual training and <br />domestic science in grade five through eight, have made a <br />much more effective teaching program. It is the hope of the <br />School Committee to further strengthen the curriculum by <br />adding a part-time music supervisor in the Fall of 1963. <br />The enrollment of grades 1-8 has increased 93% in the <br />past five years, as indicated by the following figures: <br />1958 83 pupils <br />1959 137 " <br />1960 138 " <br />1961 148 " <br />1962 162 " <br />With this increase, the teacher -pupil load has become in- <br />creasingly heavy. In order to insure all pupils the optimum <br />opportunity of a desirable classroom -learning situation, addi- <br />tional teachers had to be added. In Grade 1, with thirty- <br />three pupils, Mrs. Lois Meyer was hired as a permanent sub- <br />stitute, in order to make possible a more effective teaching <br />situation. Together, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Meyer have been <br />able to give to these young pupils the excellent type of in- <br />struction and meticulous attention to the needs of each in- <br />dividual boy and girl, which is so important at this grade <br />level. This would have been impossible under one teacher. <br />Kiri: <br />