PRIMARY SCHOOL

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 442, 25 May 1937, Page 4

PRIMARY SCHOOL

! STRATFORD COMMITTEE No Sickness Among Pupils In the absence of the chairman of the Stratford School Committee, Mr J. Morrison, Mr H. F. Vosseler was appointed to preside at the monlthly meeting Mast night. Other members present .were:—Messrs R- Watson. W. DUvis, P. T. Aitken, and Mrs P. Thomson. The headmaster, Mr L. J. Furrie, was also in attendance. Apologies for absence were tendered from Messrs Morrison and Boyce. The visiting committee reported on the state of the grounds and school. The footpaths had been sealed land were very l satisfactory, and the | grounds l were a credit to the caretakj er. The painting of .the building was jin a bad state and other minor re- * pair s to the school required attending } to. I Messrs Vosseler and Ferguson were j appointed the visiting committee for the month. The Education Board wrote in reply to the committee’s request for financial and other assistance in connection with the repairs of the baths. Stating that the request had been referred to the board’s engineer for .a report. On the motion of Mrs Thomson, it was resolved that Mr J. McAllister, a member of the Education Board, ba asked to give special attention to the request to the board and explain that it was.* a matter of urgency. Dental Clinic. “The exclusion of a patient from treatment is a serious step, which, once taken, may result in the child losing any further opportunity of resuming treatment at the clinic,” stated a Health Department circular. In future, it was stated, the responsibility for tuch a step will be taken by Hhe Department. As such cases usually arise from the non-payment of J fees, they should, in the first inj stance, be a matter for consultation ■' between the officer in charge of the 1 clinic and the Dental Clinic CommiL ' tee, after which the former will com--1 municata w?th the Dental Superintendent of the district, and furnish , him with full pbr.iculars- of each ■ case. i The department invited the co-oper- ; a-tion of committees in the matter in order to ensure that no names were removed from clinic registers wiTi1 out the approval of t.he department. I In the past, stated the secretary, * Mr G. A. Carter, the committee had i been lenient with those parents who hed. not paid the fees, but later took salutary tteps to secure payment, and these had proved satisfactory. Members agreed that it was best for all concerned that the responsibility of enforcing payment should rest with the department. Headmaster’s Report. All numbers of the staff were pretent >at the re-opening of the school after the term holidays, and the attendance was good, reported the ‘ headmaster. There was not any evi- ■ dence of sickness among pupils, and i the present healthy condition of the ■ school population would do much to dispel any uneasiness l (arising from recent events. The average attendance for the term, was 472. The attendance had been lowered by inclement weather, and in a few instances to parental J uneasiness caused by the recent epi- ! demic. It was very reassuring to j know that, no cases were reported from the school. Eighteen new pupils entered, while six left yesterday. Special instruction through the school, and a Coronation .ceremony in the assembly shed, in which the school participated, helpedi to give the pupils some knowledge of and a deeper understanding of the real significance of the Coronation. The pupils also assembled at the school in the morning of May 12 and took part in the procession to Victoria Park, where the public celebration was held. He wb s impressed with the attentive manner in which the pupils listened to the speeches. The headmaster reported the arrival of the school’s allocation of extra reading material supplied by the Education Depar 4 ment with the help of the committee’s subsidy of £7. Approximately 600 sn.LH books com. prised the supply. He had discussed with the Bornugh I Council’s traffic officer, Mr A. E. Say- ! ers, the position of the safety lanes' j from the school gates. He had been i advised that 'the lanes would be as follow: (a) from school gate to Malone and Co’s, corner across Fenton Street), land (b) across Cloton Road to Central Press corner.