HEALTH AND PHYSIQUE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1526, 23 March 1916, Page 4

HEALTH AND PHYSIQUE.

NEW SYSTEM PROPOSED. The Minister for Education, the Hon. J. A. Hanan, stated recently that he intended to revise the system of medical inspection and physical instruction in the State schools. The new scheme has now been dratted, and it shows that some important improvements are proposed. The officers engaged in the work are to be placed under the supervision and instruction of the senior inspectors for the district in which they are for the time being employed. This arrangement will secure a closer co-ordination of work. The scheme of medical inspection may be summarised as the routine examination of children in Standard lE, and in general the examination of children selected for real and suspected defects. The new scheme of medical inspection is to include : (1) The instruction of teachers, including pupil teachers and training college students, in the knowledge and the application of. the system of physical instruction and medical inspection. , (2) In view of the reduction in the state of medical inspectors and physical instructors the scheme is to extend for the present to the school with an average attendance of over 120 and to the Training College. (3) Classes are to be formed in each district for the instruction of teachers.

(4) It is recommended that the younger inspectors ot schools should take a course of Instruction in physical exercises in order that they may inspect the work done by the teachers in' the smaller schools.