Council to Meet Sports Bodies

Lake County Mail, Issue 36, 11 February 1948, Page 5

Council to Meet Sports Bodies

Resulting from a letter from 'the Ramblers’ Cricket Club requesting that certain improvements bo made to the new sports ground, the Queenstown Borough Council at its meeting last Thursday night decided to call a meeting of all sports bodies concerned with the ground to discuss the problem.

SPELLING

PRIMARY DEPARTMENT . FORMS I AND II Spelling and Sentence-building.—Learn and write from memory five words dally. Use your dictionary and each day write at least one sentence of your own using one of the words. On fifth day revise 20 words. Form I.—Address, account, afford, assist, approach, regret, regard, respect, retreat, remove; lawyer, gardener, passenger, chapter, drawer; apply, allow, allowed, refer, dictionary. Form ll.—Personal, liberal, festival, removal, criminal: declare, decrease, decline, determine, determination; portion, proportion, production, protection, introduction; fund, minor, major, majority, traitor. STANDARDS HI AND IV Instructions as for Forms I and II—- : I.—Team, stream, scream, treat, wheat; front, month, Monday, wonder, ton; manage, savage, package, postage, voyage; silent, parent, absent, prevent, garment. 2. —Word-building—Here is a W9rd family: plays, playing, played, player, playtime, playmate, all built from the word “ play.” Try to do the same with these words:—swim, blow, ride, explain. 3. —Sentence-structure—Here are some tricky words: “write” and “right”; " meet ” and “ meat “ wood ” and “ would ”; “ blew ” and " blue ”; “ not ” and “ knot.” Write each of these words In a sentence. STANDARD II Read your sentence carefully for the day and then write it. First day: Mrs Brown gave the two good boys sixpence because they chopped a pile of wood for her. Second day: As my brother cut his leg on an open tin, I had to rim to the shop on the hill to get a bandage. Third day: As soon as the farmer had eaten his dinner, he began to saddle his horses. Fourth day: Ruth is going to read some pages of that book while James mends the rabbit hutch. Fifth day: Late one cold day my father found in the snow a funny little black duck that had come from- the river. STANDARD I Read your sentence carefully for the day and then print it. First day; The birds flew about looking for food. > Second day: In the summer we go in our car to the sea. Third day: Mother and Father have gone to town in the bus. . Fourth day: In that shop I saw many bright toys. Fifth day: In our garden we grow many roses.

SECONDARY DEPARTMENT Form 111 Arithmetic: — 1. 896X79. 4804X86. 3056X509. . 2. Divide 7403 by 28. 3498 by 35. 12067 by 409. 3. Subtract 2964 from 3878, 1026 from 2304. 4. Add 3426, 127, 17, and 428; 126, 39, 408, and 90. These are examples. After doing these, make up similar sums until you have done 10 of each type. English—Write a letter to your teacher, outlining the kind of work you wish to do at high school. , the subjects, you, wish to study, and the reasons for your choice. Write an article, suitable for publication in a newspaper, describing the scene in your home town on Christmas or New Year’s Eve. This work should be completed and posted in time to reach Queenstown not later than February 21. Form IV The assignments already sent out cover English, social studies, general science and health education. Pupils are asked to read carefully the instructions on thfi first page, and to note that some work should be done in all four subjects daily.

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