RURAL EDUCATION

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2447, 28 April 1915, Page 10

RURAL EDUCATION

PROGRESS OF THE WORK. Some reference to tie progress of training in agriculture in some of the schools of the district-was made in the annual report, of tlie Education Board presented yesterday. ''The reports both of the inspectors and of the instructors in agriculture record an advance in that subject over the work of previous years, for not only was there a considerable increase in the number of schools undertaking, the primary course, but also the treatment or the subject both out and indoors showed improvement. The Handbook issued from the Board Office and outlining a 'three years' course has proved generally helpful in setting forth a definite course suited to tho circumstances of the district, and leading up to the District High School' course. The Ekctahuna District High School undertook the full rural course The instructor's report says: 'The work for 1914 has been most satisfactory. There has been an increased interest and application on the part of the teachers. On the whole the garden plots are good, and are used intelligently, and as an outcome of the garden work, school grounds have been improved with hedges, ornamental trees and shrubs. The indoor work oontinues to improve. Nearly every school is supplied .with sufficient apparatus to add life and interest to the Nature study work. As much help as possible was given to newly established classes or where the agriculture or Nature study work was rather weak.' Garden plots wore established, aud a good deal of work was done at other schools where the circumstances did' not permit of the full requirements for earning capitation being met."