NEW CLASS-ROOM

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 245, 28 July 1937, Page 9

NEW CLASS-ROOM

AT ASHBURTON EAST SCHOOL.

WORK EXPECTED TO START. At the meeting of the Ashburton East School Committee advice was received from the Canterbury Education Board that the erection of a special class-room at the Ashburton East School for retarded or backward pupils is expected to be put in hand within the next week. The board said further that its staff had been busy,, on the work at the Timaru High Schools, but it was hoped to start the erection of the new building at Ashburton East very soon.

Mr W. S. Kerr, chairman of the committee, presided at the meeting.

A further letter was received from the Education Board saying that the school’s incidental allowance for the year ending March 31, 1938, was £167, payable in quarterly instalments. : It was decided to protest to the Department of Education against headmasters of schools being required to certify monthly to the fitness of school ’buses.

In his report, the headmaster (Mr S. G. Macfarlane) said the attendance was disappointing. In the last three weeks the roll-numbers were 456, 456 and 463 respectively, and the average attendances were 428, 424 and 425. Basketball at the school was suffering from lack of suitable grounds on which to practise. The half-yearly examinations were finished. The whole staff attended the Education Fellowship Conference at Christchurch.

The Canterbury Education Board wrote that the South Canterbury foreman had been asked to report on overhauling the heating and ventilation systems of the school, additional bicycle accommodation, erection of sheltersheds, provision of a. staff room, interior decoration and renovation, and remodelling three rooms on the southwest side of the school.