PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2720, 15 March 1916, Page 6

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

CHANGES IN ADMINISTRATION i The soheme for the physical training of school, children established some four years ago has been without a head for some time now, and the'- intentions of • the Government concerning tho method of controlling it have been doubtful. The-ox-Minister of- Education (tho .Hon. J. Allen) had "a plan for appointing as Director of Physical Education a medical man, but in these war times such ail appointment cannot be mado. The present Minister of Education has made other' arrangements. '

The physical instructors, are to bo placed under the general supervision of the senior: Inspector 'of Schools in tho district in which they are employed, the object being to secure, if possible, better co-ordination between the. physical training branch and the other •branches of school work'. For greater efficiency, and. for, bettor knowledge of the work, ifoe younger inspectors are, asked to undergo a course of physical training instruction, in order .that they may be able better to assess-the merit of instruction given'by teachers in country schools.;, With the object of. selecting pupils suffering from physical defects. and putting these pupils "through corrective courses of physical exercises, jriedical inspectors and physical instructors are asked to visit some of the larger ■ schools together to discuss the scheme and agree upon a plan of work. A't some of these schools classes of this character are already organised; it all other schools visited by the medical inspectors,_ these inspectors are jsked to prepare lists of pupils tequirdi<• this treatment, such' lists to he left qjf the school'for the guidance of tho physical instructors.