ELEMENTARY EDUCATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 260, 7 November 1906, Page 7

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION.

ATTELVCTTArE TEACHING METHODS.

(From our Own Reporter).

OHRISTCHURCH, this day.

" This is the last stage, when the buds are nearly out," writes an eleven-year-old girl in a big round hand at the foot of a neat, coloured drawing depicting a spray from a South Canterbury orchard. Her early efforts at brush-work, and a good many other specimens of nature drawing from the public schools of the colony make an interesting exhibit in the South Gallery at t'hristehurch Exhibition. Auckland schools are exceedingly prominent in this section, and the work is generally very creditable. Some beautiful colour-studies of the iris have been sent by a thirteen-year-old pupil at the Northcote schools. He has represented the graceful form and rich colour of the flower with great success. The Auckland Normal School pupils have provided beautiful brush drawings detnontrating the applicability of flower and leaf to conventional decorative effect. Similar work come from Onetuinga High School, which makes a fairly large display of effective Hat-tint designs, and there are ma-ny good examples of drawing from nature contributed from the Mount Albeit, Farnell, Remuera, De\onport. Ponsonby, and Bayfleld elementary schools. The Education Department has secured specimens from all parts of the colony to demonstrate how children are trained to deftness of hand and accuracy of okewalioiih by means of those

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