KINDERGARTEN CONFERENCE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8355, 15 February 1913, Page 12

KINDERGARTEN CONFERENCE

Next week a conference of delegates from the kindergarten unions of the four principal towns will meet in Wellington, and various matters relating to kindergarten work will bo discussed. The principal objects of the conference are to form a Federal Froebel Union for New Zealand; to arrange a uniform training course and examination for teachers: and to obtain Government recognition of the union's certificates. In addition matters of finance, syllabus, and diplomas will be discussed, and the proposed course of study for kindergarten teachers, including, besides Froebel’s principles, nature study, physiology and hygiene, child 'psychology, history of education and “Education of Man." The delegates will be: From Auckland, Miss Gibson and Mrs Milus; Dunedin, Miss Lavinia Kelsey; Christchurch, Mrs T. E. Taylor and Mrs Langford; Wellington, Mrs T. H. Gill and Miss M. E. Richmond. The delegates will arrive on Saturday and Sunday, and on Sunday afternoon will be the guests of Mrs Burnett, Moana road, Karori. to afternoon tea. On Monday morning they will visit the Taranaki street and Constable street kindergartens, will bo entertained to lunch at ie Pioneer Club, and in the afternoon will hold an informal meeting with tho council and staff of the Richmond Free Kindergarten Union at Mrs Grady's, on Wellington tenace. On Tuesday the conference will bo held at Mrs Grady’s, morning and afternoon, and on Wednesday the visitors will visit the Brooklyn and Kilbirnie kindergartens.