MATERIAL WANTED

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 143, 19 June 1934, Page 4

MATERIAL WANTED

HANDICRAFT IN SCHOOLS

DISCUSSION AT NELSON

, (Special to the "Evening Post.") NELSON, June IS.

Tho Nelson Education Board rocently received from the Canterbury board a letter stating that it had been decided to write to the Minister of Education urging that the issue of handwork material be resumed by the Department in view of the difficulty at present obtaining in securing effective treatment of this subject in primary schools. Tho Canterbury board asked for support of the requost, and for Nelson's views on the teaching of handeraft since the discontinuance of the supply. _ Tho Nelson secretary, after consulta-1 tion with the senior inspector, has replied stating that since tho discontinuance of tho supply the treatment of tho subject had been greatly improved, Teachers and pupils had boon thrown largely on their own initiative, the result being a much greater diversity of treatment. In some schools^ through the sales of articles made, tho classes were self-supporting.

The board today considered that if reissue of material were granted it would be necessary to provide for a ■more diversified treatment of the sub■joct, but if only limited funds were available it would be better to confine the material to the primer up to standard II classes.

The Canterbury board's request was supported.