EXHIBITION OF WORK

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1930, Page 3

EXHIBITION OF WORK

TE A CHE RS’ INSTITUTE.

At the Soldiers Hall to-morrow, there will lie on view, samples of work from the Primary Schools of Canterbury and Westland. This unique event lias been engineered by the local Inspector of Schools, Mr S. J. Irwin and tlie hearty support of the Teachers’ Institute and Mr Wild, Chairman of the Canterbury Education Board.

Many parents are aware that the rules of 3R’s still apply in the present syllabus but thanks to those in charge of the Show, an opportunity Mias boon given to make a display that has not been seen on the Coast for some time. To see tin* numerous exhibits will no doubt make one wonder how teachers with the multitude of duties they have to perform, find time to give the practical demonstrations that are so essential in teaching the various forms of handcraft, now in vogue in schools and practiced by those who are not so efficient as their fellow pupils in ordinary lessons. When one tak'-s a ramble round and views articles, models and work from schools as far south as Geraldine and Timaru. in Canterbury, and Waitaba in We'-'Da nd and sees the multitude of exhibits that one little country school can put out, one Coast .school having no less than 113 exhibits, it strikes one that education has undergone a vast eh a” ye in the last few years, and a pupil that was considered years agd rather a simpleton, is now rather, an important personage in school life. The development of .. ~ the hand and the, eye is now just as important as that of the brains, and in the, leather rubber, basket and naper works one sees evidence of much ingenuity and originality. ■■■-

Budding sculptors, painters, scribes, reporters and craftsmen are seen in nil directors and in such variety, that the impression is gained that school is not the prison it used to lie. Tf time permits come along and see the Canterbury and Westland School Bovs and you will judge for yourself whether the work carried out is a r ' l "' sample of youthful •- endeavour, and whether your hov or girl is learning somethin or that will he of of use in after life.