District High School Wants All Pupils’ Names For Nominal Roll

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 20, 10 February 1948, Page 5

District High School Wants All Pupils’ Names For Nominal Roll

As has been the case with the Auckland secondary schools, the chief difficulty of the Whakatane High School so far has been the compiling of a nominal roll in order that the correspondence lessons may be sent to all children who should receive them. Parents have not yet responded very well to the appeal published last week, for of the 140 new pupils expected, less than half have so far been enrolled. The proportion is little better with last year’s Form lll—only about 60 of the hundred expected have notified their intention of returning, and the printed lessons received from Wellington have been posted to those pupils. It cannot be too strongly emphasised that the correspondence ’lessons form a definite part of the year’s school work, and that pupils who do not do them or do them only half-hearted will be so much behind. Parents are therefore again asked to co-operate by ensuring that the enrolment of new pupils is completed as soon as possible, and that the school is advised whether pupils whose names are already on the roll will be returning or otherwise.