FOR THE TEACHERS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 999, 14 December 1910, Page 5

FOR THE TEACHERS.

NEW.TRAINING COLLEGE AT KELBURNE. ■ " ■ WHAT IT -WILL BE LIEE. Competitive designs are to be'invited to; the new teachers' training college, .-which l it is proposed to erect at-Ketone, upon'. 7 a site which has already been'; secured.;' At the monthly meeting of the Welling- ! .' ,7. ton .Education Board yesterday, 1 it wa3 reported that "the Committee ;of'AdvicV, 7 and associated with them Mr. Aitkeri and 1 Professor Ivirk, recommended, the general approval of the proposals submitted by the principal for the establishment of a college at Kelburne; that a committee, . ,' consisting of the chairman, Ifr.' Aitkeri, Inspector Fleming, Professor -Kirk, and the principal, bt appointed to confer' with the Department in reference .to - . building proposals; and that coiripetitiva designs for the new college be invited." , According to a "data" report submit-, ted, tho number of pupil-teachers and-' probationers in tho Middle University- . District in 1909 was' 330. Taking onequarter of the pupil-teachers and one-V half of the ttrooationers, there should r . • be available for training- each year, 00, ]■ ■■■<■ and,if, say, 20 of these , are .ineligible there -- . would be left about 70.. There are 145.V * • S..lt, teachers in the Middle University / District. Allowing 7£ per cent, annually tor retirement from various causes,, there . '^. would be required 109 teachers each vear • to keep the supply; t&kmg a lower;reck-; : oning of 5 per cent;, the number would'- -;.; be between 7(J and SO. It vrould , then that college should have in.' - - view the training of something like 150': students, that is 75 in 'each of the. two years, provided with "the necessary rooms' " for their requirements. There- would also be provided a, ■ school - consists ing of (1) a 7 main school of 350 .- v scholars, including an infant room of :; : - 100; (2) a secondary' department, of 50 7 ' - scholars; and (3) a country school of 30 V ,r- ; scholars. In addition to these would beV • a college house for the accommodation of t 1 the men students." . s '/'••"'i'.y The > college building plan will make, c provision for a large demonstration' room i;.'< to accommodate a class, of about' 7 scholars and about GO students; two lec- ; : r ture rooms, each ,to accommodate GO i6v , i 70 students; two science rooms, one for v; .' \> physics and chemistry, and the. other for" biology. >nd geography; art/room'.'with; - modelling room, adjacent; room for mu- : seum; common rooms for. men and women students; library; store rooms for ap-' paratus; cookery and laundry .room; , woodwork room; principal's room. and!.i-.' •lecturer's room.; two - or three, small*-V/' studies; large, hall; gymnasium and* - bath. ... . Tho school building will lje in two . 1 • parts; tho infant room separated froaiv the main school, which will have (a) six\ class rooms for the standards, each to 17"' accommodate 40. scholars and about 712 ■ students for'observational purposes; (b)\ two class rooms for the secondary depart-;''. raent, (c) one laboratory, (d) : two- rooms' for the country school departments; als&. : headmaster's room and staff-room with?; cloak rooms for scholars. 'The general plan of the-school, as' sug- . gested, is the "Central Hall" plan; b'u£i •: if this .is not within the means available,!'- , I pTOvisioii should, it 7 is -considered, be' made , for an assembly hall. • w 7 -